Career
He represented Trabzon in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey for the Motherland Party (Anavatan Partisi (Motherland Party)) from 1983 to 2001. In the mid-1990s he was a minister of state responsible for Tekel. Aşık was elected to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey in 1983 for the Motherland Party (Anavatan Partisi (Motherland Party)) party, and was re-elected repeatedly.
He resigned his seat as deputy and his position as minister of state on 16 November 1998, after allegations (which Aşık denied) 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 was a Democratic Party candidate in the 2007 elections.