Sabahattin Özbek | |
Office1: | Minister of National Education |
President1: | Ferit Melen |
Term Start1: | 22 May 1972 |
Term End1: | 15 April 1973 |
Predecessor1: | İsmail Hakkı Arar |
Successor1: | Orhan Dengiz |
Office2: | Minister of Transport |
President2: | Naim Talu |
Term Start2: | 15 April 1973 |
Term End2: | 26 January 1974 |
Predecessor2: | Rıfkı Danışman |
Successor2: | Hasan Ferda Güley |
President3: | Sadi Irmak |
Term Start3: | 17 November 1974 |
Term End3: | 31 March 1975 |
Predecessor3: | Hasan Ferda Güley |
Successor3: | Nahit Menteşe |
Office4: | Minister of Interior |
President4: | Süleyman Demirel |
Term Start4: | 10 April 1977 |
Term End4: | 21 June 1977 |
Predecessor4: | Oğuzhan Asiltürk |
Successor4: | Necdet Uğur |
Office5: | Minister of Agriculture and Forestry |
President5: | Bülend Ulusu |
Term Start5: | 21 September 1980 |
Term End5: | 13 December 1983 |
Predecessor5: | Hasan Ekinci Cemal Külahlı |
Successor5: | Hüsnü Doğan |
Office6: | Member of the Grand National Assembly |
Constituency6: | Bursa (1983) |
Birth Place: | Erzurum, Ottoman Empire |
Death Place: | Ankara, Turkey |
Occupation: | Politician |
Alma Mater: | Ankara University |
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.
Born in 1915 in Erzurum, Özbek graduated from the Ankara University Faculty of Agriculture in 1937.[1] He was married and had three children. In addition to Turkish and English, he spoke German and French.
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.[2] 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.[1]