Kasım Gülek
Kasım Gülek | |
|---|---|
| Turkish Minister of Transport | |
| In office 10 June 1948 – 16 January 1949 | |
| Preceded by | Şükrü Koçak |
| Succeeded by | Kemal Satır |
| Minister of Public Works of Turkey | |
| In office 10 September 1947 – 10 June 1948 | |
| Preceded by | Cevdet Kerim İncedayı |
| Succeeded by | Nihat Erim |
| Secretary General of the Republican People's Party | |
| In office 29 June 1950 – 28 September 1959 | |
| Preceded by | Tevfik Fikret Sılay |
| Succeeded by | İsmail Rüştü Aksal |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1905 |
| Died | January 19, 1996 (aged 91) |
| Children | Mustafa Gulek(Son), Tayyibe Gülek (Daughter) |
Kasım Gülek (1905 – 1996) was a prominent Turkish statesman credited with being instrumental in entrenching democracy in Turkey by taking politics to the masses.
Biography
He was born and lived in Adana, Adana Vilayet, Ottoman Empire, until he went away to school in Istanbul, where he studied respectively at Galatasaray High School and Robert College. He then went on to study at Ecole des Sciences Politiques in Paris, France, followed by Columbia University in New York City, New York, United States, where he received his PhD in Economics. After undertaking post doctorate studies at Cambridge in the United Kingdom and Berlin University as a fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation, he returned to his country upon request form the founder and president of the republic of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.