After leaving diplomatic post he joined the Nationalist Movement Party and was elected to the Turkish Parliament in 2007.
[4] Next he served as an advisor to Prime Minister Turgut Özal from 1985 to 1988 and as ambassador of Turkey to Greece from 1988 to 1991.
[4] Aktan retired from diplomatic post in 1998 and headed the Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation.
[4] He was appointed chair of the ASAM: Eurasian Center for Strategic Studies on 1 April 2004 and held the post until September 2004.
[7] Funeral prayers for him were performed in Kocatepe Mosque, Ankara, on 20 November, and he was buried Büyükada cemetery, Istanbul.