Tayyibe Gülek (born 1968,

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) is a Turkish economist and politician.

Biography

Gulek received her

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with honors in

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from

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in 1991 and her M.Sc. degree in 1992 from the

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. She started her professional career as an advisor to the Chief Coordinator of Economic Policy at the Prime Ministry where she worked on projects such as the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, economics coordination,

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coordination, and the

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. In 1999, she was elected to the

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(parliament) representing

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for 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, member of the Committee on Health and Family Affairs, and a member of the Committee on Equality between Men and Women. In 2002, she became Minister of State responsible for

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and for Turks living abroad. She is the daughter of the Kasım Gülek.

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