Statesman (b. 1944, Kitre village / Bayburt). He graduated from Ankara
University, Faculty of Law (1966). He dealt with politics as from his youth.
Between 1965 and 1966, he was the president of Youth Branch the Republican
Peasants National Party. He worked as a district governor in various districts
since 1967. In 1977 at the time of Gün Sazak's presidency, he was appointed as
the Undersecretary of Customs and Tobacco Monopoly. In 1987 elections he
entered the parliament as İstanbul Deputy from the Motherland Party. In 1989 he
became the first Minister of Culture after the division of Ministry of Culture
and Tourism. He worked as the Prime Minister Counselor between years of 1991-93
and as the President’s Counselor between 1913-1915. In 1995 general elections
he was elected as İstanbul deputy from the True Path Party and worked as the
Responsible Minister of the Anatolian Agency and Press Information General
Directorate within the 54th (Welfare Party – True Path Party)
Coalition Government. Zeybek, who was also interested in education and culture
as well as politics and statesmanship was appointed the first chairman to the
Board of Trustees of Hoca Ahmet Yesevi International Turkish- Kazakh University
in 1993. In 1999 he continued his work being appointed to the same position one
more time. His articles were published in various newspapers and periodicals as
well as his own newspaper Ay Yıldız.
WORKS:
Ülkü Yol (Ideal Way, 1979), Bilgi Sevgi
Hoşgörü, Millî Kültür Meselemiz, Türk Olmak (Knowledge Love Tolerance, Our
National Culture Problem, Being a Turk, 1999), Çağı Yakalamak (Catching up with the Era, 2001), Ahmet Yesevi Yolu ve Hikmetleri (The
Way of Ahmet Yesevi and Its Wisdom, 2002).
