Mehmet Ağar
Mehmet Ağar | |
|---|---|
| Minister of Interior | |
| In office June 26, 1996 – November 8, 1996 | |
| Prime Minister | Necmettin Erbakan |
| Preceded by | Ülkü Güney |
| Succeeded by | Meral Akşener |
| Minister of Justice | |
| In office March 6, 1996 – June 29, 1996 | |
| Prime Minister | Mesut Yılmaz |
| Preceded by | Firuz Çilingiroğlu |
| Succeeded by | Şevket Kazan |
| Personal details | |
| Born | October 30, 1951 Çankaya, Ankara, Turkey |
| Political party | True Path Party (DYP) |
| Relations | Tolga Ağar (children) |
| Alma mater | Ankara University |
| Occupation | Politician |
Mehmet Kemal Ağar (born on 30 October 1951) is a Turkish former police chief, politician, government minister and leader of the Democratic Party. He was a police officer who rose to General Director of the General Directorate of Security (effectively national police chief), serving from 1993 to 1995, before entering parliament and serving as a government minister in 1996. Under his reign a close relationship developed between the deep state in Turkey, the Grey Wolves, and the Turkish mafia. It took 15 years until he was tried and sentenced for criminal activities relating to the 1996 Susurluk scandal; he was incarcerated in April 2012 but already released on probation in April 2013.
From 2018-2021 he managed the luxury marina "Yalikavak Marina" near Bodrum, but was forced to resign after mafia boss Sedat Peker blew the whistle with his 2021 videos.