Tayyibe Gülek

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

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Tayyibe Gulek received her B.A. with honors in Economics from Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1991 and her M.Sc. degree in 1992 from the London School of Economics in the United Kingdom.

Tayyibe Gülek started her professional career as an advisor at the Prime Ministry where she worked on projects such as the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, economics coordination, European Community coordination and the Southeastern Anatolia Project.

In 1999, she was elected to Parliament as a deputy for Adana from the Democratic Left Party. 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 Deputy Chairman of the Democratic Left Party and Honorary Chairman of the Ankara-based Turkish think tank International Strategic Research Organization (ISRO – USAK).