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Eyüp Aşık

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Eyüp Aşık (born 1953, Çaykara[1]) is a former Turkish politician. He represented Trabzon in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey for the Motherland Party (ANAP) from 1983 to 2001.[2] In the mid-1990s he was a minister of state responsible for Tekel.[3]

Career

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Aşık was elected to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey in 1983 for the Motherland Party (ANAP) party, and was re-elected repeatedly.[4] In the mid-1990s he was a minister of state responsible for Tekel,[3] and a member of a 1993 - 1995 parliamentary commission to research killings by unknown perpetrators (faili meçhul cinayetleri araştırma komisyonu).[5] He resigned his seat as deputy and his position as minister of state on 16 November 1998, after allegations (which Aşık denied) of a relationship with mob boss Alaattin Çakıcı.[6] In February 1999 he was acquitted on charges of aiding the mafia.[7][8]

Aşık was re-elected to parliament in the 1999 elections.[9] He defected from ANAP to the DYP in 2001,[10] but failed to win a seat in the 2002 elections.[6] He was a Democratic Party candidate in the 2007 elections.[11]

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