Tayyibe Gülek

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Tayyibe Gülek (1968, Adana) is a Turkish economist and former politician.

She was born in 1968 as the first child and the daughter of the popular Turkish politician Kasım Gülek. She grew up in a family house, where politics was the main topic. After finishing the primary education, she was sent to the United States. Tayyibe Gülek graduated from the Trinity School in New York City, New York. In 1987, she attended School of Economics at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts earning a B.A. degree in 1991. She completed her post-graduate education with a M.Sc. degree she received in 1992 from London School of Economics in the United Kingdom.

Tayyibe Gülek started her professional career as an advisor to the Prime Minister in 1994. She co-worked until 1999 on the projects like Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, economics coordination, European Community coordination, Southeastern Anatolia Project development and Total Quality Management in the bureacracy.

In 1999, she entered politics from the Democratic Left Party and was elected deputy of Adana into the parliament. During her term in office, she was a member of the Turkish delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, where she was Vice Chair of the Committee on Human Rights, and a member of the Committee on Equality between Men and Women. In 2002, she became Minister of State Responsible for Cyprus and for Turks living abroad.

Currently, she is Honorary Chairman of the Ankara-based Turkish think tank International Strategic Research Organization (ISRO – USAK).

She had a short-time marriage with Murat Bilge in 1996.