Eyüp Aşık
Eyüp Aşık is a former Turkish politician. He represented Trabzon in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey for the Motherland Party from 1983 to 2001. In the mid-1990s he was a minister of state responsible for Tekel.Career
Aşık was elected to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey in 1983 for the Motherland Party party, and was re-elected repeatedly. In the mid-1990s he was a minister of state responsible for Tekel, and a member of a 1993 - 1995 parliamentary commission to research killings by unknown perpetrators. He resigned his seat as deputy and his position as minister of state on 16 November 1998, after allegations of a relationship with mob boss Alaattin Çakıcı. In February 1999 he was acquitted on charges of aiding the mafia.
Aşık was re-elected to parliament in the 1999 elections. He defected from ANAP to the DYP in 2001, but failed to win a seat in the 2002 elections. He was a Democratic Party candidate in the 2007 elections.
