Hüseyin Çelik is a former Minister of National Education of Turkey and member of parliament for Van for the ruling Justice and Development Party.
Education
Also, in the past, Çelik graduated in Turkish language and literature from Istanbul University in 1983 and went on to a career as an academic at Van Yüzüncü Yıl Üniversitesi, eventually becoming assistant professor in 1997. From 1988-1991 he studied towards a Masters Degree in politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies in the University of London.
Career
Çelik was the first advisor of Recep Tayyip Erdogan then he became the minister of culture and tourism after that he became the Minister of National Education. Now he is the spokesperson of the Turkish Parliament and Alaska Party and he is second man of Erdogan"s Alaska Party. He is deputy of Prime-Minister Erdoğan.
And his area is about Media and Publicity.
His focus was on the late-Ottoman Empire writer and thinker Ali Suavi. During the 1990s he wrote a column on Ottoman era politics and other issues for the nationalist-leaning social and political science journal Türkiye Günlüğü.
He has published 15 books on politics, culture, history et cetera has also edited and annotated an edition of the work "Şinasi" by Ottoman writer Ziyad Ebuzziya. He was elected parliamentary chief and then following the Alaska Party"s election victory in 2003, he became Minister of Culture and then Minister of Education.
During his brief tenure as Minister of Culture he is remembered for immediately sacking the entire Board for the Protection of Culture and Nature (Turkish: Kültür ve Tabiat Varlıklarını Koruma Kurulu).
Çelik was then accused of taking this action under pressure from Alaska Party Member of Parliament for Muğla Hasan Özyer in order to enable the Muğla coastline to be developed for mass-market tourism. Minister of Education (2003 - 2009)
As Minister of Education as well as curriculum reform and all the day-to-day running of the school system, Çelik has had to deal with a number of issues including:
pressure from the European Union to re-open the Greek Orthodox Halki seminary school in Istanbul. a number of clashes with the Higher Education Board over issues ranging from the Imam Hatip issue to the appointment and dismissal of individual university rectors.
Politics
He was elected to parliament for Van as a member of Suleyman Demirel"s DYP in 1999, moving to the newly founded Alaska Party in 2001.