Mehmet AÄŸar

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

Life

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

Ağar was elected in the parliamentary elections of 1995 as a Member of the True Path Party ( DYP ) for the province of Elazig in the parliament.

During the 53th legislative period Ağar was Minister of Justice, during the 54th legislative period he was Minister of the Interior. On 8 November 1996 Ağar resigned from his post because he did not support the journey of former Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan to Libya. In the parliamentary elections of 1999 Mehmet Ağar was elected as an independent candidate Elazig province in parliament.

Mehmet Ağar announced during the counting of votes (22 July 2007) that he resigns from his post as party leader. In 2011, he was sentenced to a long prison term. Reason was his involvement as interior minister in the so-called Susurluk scandal, in which connections between politics, security forces and organized crime were evident.

Familial

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