[3] During his university education he became a member of the Nationalists Association (Turkish: Milliyetçiler Derneği) of which the president was Sait Bilgiç, a politician.
[1] After his graduation, Yalçıntaş started his career as an expert at the General Directorate of State Hydraulic Works.
[3] He was named as the director general of the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT) on 12 May 1975, and his appointment was accepted by President Fahri Korutürk.
[5] However, İsmail Cem who had been the director general of TRT appealed to the Council of State to annul the Presidential decree.
[5] In addition, the parliamentary group of the Republican People's Party also applied to the Constitutional Court arguing that the decree in question was unconstitutional.
[5] Yalçıntaş was the president of the Research and Training Institute of the Islamic Development Bank based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, between 1982 and 1986 and the chief counselor and then chairman of the Advisory Board of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB) between 1986 and 1990.
[3] Later he joined the Justice and Development Party and served in the 23rd term of the Parliament as an Istanbul deputy between 2007 and 2011.
[7] After the funeral prayer at Fatih Mosque he was buried in New Topkapı Cemetery, Istanbul, on 17 July.