Education
He graduated from İstanbul University Faculty of Law and served as a prosecutor in the districts of Halfeti, Çamardı and Savaştepe and later in the provinces of Giresun and Ankara.
He graduated from İstanbul University Faculty of Law and served as a prosecutor in the districts of Halfeti, Çamardı and Savaştepe and later in the provinces of Giresun and Ankara.
Sadık Yakut was born on 3 February 1956 in the Büyükkaramanlı village of Pınarbaşı, Kayseri. He was a research judge and later a head of department and the Ministry of Justice Department of Prisons and Detention Houses. Yakut became the Deputy Speaker of the Grand National Assembly after the AKP"s victory in the 2002 general election, during which he was re-elected as an Member of Parliament for Kayseri.
He served until 2007 and was re-elected as an Member of Parliament in the 2007 general election, returning to his role as Deputy Speaker in 2009.
He was re-elected as an Member of Parliament for a final time in the 2011 general election, continuing as Deputy Speaker until 2015, in which he was barred from running for election due to the AKP"s three-term limit on its MPs.
He was a Member of Parliament for Kayseri between 1999 and 2015, first entering Parliament as a Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) politician and then defecting to the AKP to become one of the party"s founding members in 2001. Yakut entered Parliament as a member of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) in the 1999 general election as an Member of Parliament for Kayseri. In 2001, he left the MHP to join the bloc of "modernist" independent former Felicity Party MPs and eventually became a founding member of the Justice and Development Party (AKP).