Mehmet Agar

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Mehmet Kemal Ağar (born October 30, 1951 in Elazığ ) is a Turkish politician.

Life

He attended high school in Ankara and graduated from Istanbul in 1968 ( Haydarpaşa Lisesi ). In the same year he began his financial education at the Institute of Political Science at Istanbul University .

Ağar was elected to parliament for the Elazığ Province as a member of the Right Way Party ( DYP ) in the 1995 parliamentary elections.

Ağar was Minister of Justice during the 53rd term and Minister of the Interior during the 54th term. On November 8, 1996, Ağar resigned from his office because he did not support the then Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan's trip to Libya . In the 1999 parliamentary elections, Mehmet Ağar was elected to parliament as an independent candidate from Elazığ Province.

Mehmet Ağar announced during the vote count (July 22, 2007) that he was stepping down from his post as party leader. In 2011 he was sentenced to a long prison term. The reason was his involvement as Interior Minister in the so-called Susurluk scandal , in which connections between politics, security forces and organized crime became apparent.

Familiar

Ağar married Emel Ağar in 1974 and had two children from this marriage: Tolga Ağar (1975) and Yasemin Ağar (1977). The daughter died on January 29, 1997.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DP'de seçim depremi; Ağar istifa etti ( Memento of the original dated August 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Zaman online , accessed July 22, 2007 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zaman.com.tr
personal data
SURNAME Agar, Mehmet
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ağar, Mehmet Kemal (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Elazığ