[3] Korkut Özal studied at the Faculty of Civil Engineering at Istanbul Technical University.
In 1974, he was the minister of food, agriculture, and livestock in the CHP-MSP coalition government, and later in the first Nationalist Front cabinet established in 1975.
[5] Shortly after the 1980 Turkish coup d'état Korkut Özal suffered a traffic accident on 25 September 1980, and withdrew from politics.
[6][7] He was critical of many of the policies of the Anasol-D government and resigned from the Motherland Party on 13 August 1997.
[8] Özal was active in the İlim Yayma Foundation and was mentor of many significant conservative politicians, including Kadir Topbaş, Ahmet Davutoğlu, Ali Coşkun, Mehmet Aydın and Nevzat Yalçıntaş.