Mehmet Ağar
| Mehmet Ağar | |
|---|---|
| Minister of Interior | |
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In office June 26, 1996 – November 8, 1996 |
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| Prime Minister | Necmettin Erbakan |
| Preceded by | Ülkü Güney |
| Succeeded by | Meral Akşener |
| Minister of Justice | |
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In office March 6, 1996 – June 29, 1996 |
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| Prime Minister | Mesut Yılmaz |
| Preceded by | Firuz Çilingiroğlu |
| Succeeded by | Şevket Kazan |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
October 30, 1951 Çankaya, Ankara, Turkey |
| Nationality | Turkish |
| Political party | True Path Party (DYP) |
| Alma mater | Ankara University |
| Occupation | Politician |
Mehmet Kemal Ağar (born October 30, 1951 in Çankaya, Ankara) 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. After being sentenced to several years in prison for criminal activities relating to the Susurluk scandal, he was released on probation in April 2013.
Mehmet Ağar was born on October 30, 1951 at the state president's official residence Çankaya Köşkü in Ankara, where his father was serving as security. During his youth, he toured several places across the country due to his father's position as police chief.
He began his high school education in Ankara, continued in Haydarpaşa High School in Istanbul finishing in 1968. He studied finance in the School of Political Science at the University of Ankara on scholarship from the Turkish General Directorate of Security. Graduated in 1972, Mehmet Ağar became a police officer.
Mehmet Ağar, married in 1974 Emel Ağar. The couple has a son Tolga and a daughter Yasemin.
He later served as a police inspector in the security force for the state president. In 1976, Ağar was appointed vice district governor in İznik and Selçuk. He later became district governor in Torul and Delice. In 1980, he was assigned assistant director to the counter-terrorism section of Istanbul Police. The next year, he was promoted to director of security in Istanbul. At the same time, he became chief of the Counter-Guerrilla, a clandestine stay-behind anti-communist initiative backed by NATO and the United States.
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