Sabahattin Özbek

Sabahattin Özbek
Minister of National Education
In office 22 May 1972 – 15 April 1973
President	Ferit Melen
Preceded by	İsmail Hakkı Arar
Succeeded by	Orhan Dengiz
Minister of Transport
In office 15 April 1973 – 26 January 1974
President	Naim Talu
Preceded by	Rıfkı Danışman
Succeeded by	Hasan Ferda Güley
In office 17 November 1974 – 31 March 1975
President	Sadi Irmak
Preceded by	Hasan Ferda Güley
Succeeded by	Nahit Menteşe
Minister of Interior
In office 10 April 1977 – 21 June 1977
President	Süleyman Demirel
Preceded by	Oğuzhan Asiltürk
Succeeded by	Necdet Uğur
Minister of Agriculture and Forestry
In office 21 September 1980 – 13 December 1983
President	Bülend Ulusu
Preceded by	Hasan Ekinci Cemal Külahlı
Succeeded by	Hüsnü Doğan
Member of the Grand National Assembly
Constituency	Bursa (1983)
Personal details
Born	1915 (1915) Erzurum, Ottoman Empire
Died	29 August 2001(2001-08-29) (aged 85–86) Ankara, Turkey
Alma mater	Ankara University
Occupation	Politician

Ahmet Sabahattin Özbek (1915 – 29 August 2001) was a Turkish politician and academic who served five times as a minister in the 35th, 36th, 38th, 39th and 44th governments of Turkey. He entered the Grand National Assembly in 1983 and retired from politics in 1987. Prior to his political career, Özbek graduated from the Ankara University, became the first rector of the Atatürk University and a dean at the Ankara University.

Early and personal life

Born in 1915 in Erzurum, Özbek graduated from the Ankara University Faculty of Agriculture in 1937. He was married and had three children. In addition to Turkish and English, he spoke German and French.

Career

He became a professor in 1953, and became a dean at the Ankara University from 1955 to 1957. He became the first rector of the Atatürk University on 1 February 1959 and kept that position until 26 September 1960. He returned to being a dean at the Ankara University from 1965 to 1968, where he also was a lecturer.

His political career started when he was appointed as a member of the Senate of the Republic in 1973. Özbek remained a senator until 1978. He was the Minister of National Education from 1972 to 1973, the Minister of Transport on two separate occasions from 1973 to 1975, the Minister of Interior in 1977 and the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry from 1980 to 1983. Özbek later entered the Grand National Assembly as an independent member of the Bursa district from 1983 to 1987 and spoke six times in the parliament. He retired from politics after 1987. On 29 August 2001, Özbek died in Ankara.

References

Bibliography

• Keşir, Feridun; Ören, Fatih; Sungur, Necati; et al. (2010). TBMM Albümü (1920–2010) (PDF) (in Turkish). Vol. 3. Grand National Assembly of Turkey. ISBN 9789758805051. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 November 2020.
• Saygın, Selim (2021). "Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Hükümetlerinde Görev Yapmış Akademisyen Kökenli İçişleri Bakanlarının Faaliyetleri". Journal of Social Sciences (in Turkish). 20 (3). Gaziantep University: 1435–1448. doi:10.21547/jss.859776. Archived from the original on 4 August 2021. Retrieved 10 September 2022.