# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mehdi-eker
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:12:02.763Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mehdi-eker"
name: "Mehdi Eker"
slug: "mehdi-eker"
description: "Mehmet Mehdi Eker is a Kurdish-Turkish politician who served as the Minister of Food, Agriculture and Livestock of Turkey from 2005 until 2015. He was elected a Member of Parliament for the electoral district of Diyarbakır for Democratic People's Party in 2002. He was re-elected in 2007 and 2011 for the Justice and Development Party (AKP). He was again elected as an MP in 2018."
tagline: "Turkish veterinarian and statesperson (born 1956)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mehdieker1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Turkey"
  isoCode: "TR"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1956"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.95
  momentum:             9.03765690376569
  historical:           6.375813333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     49.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/DrMehdiEker"
    handle:    "DrMehdiEker"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/m.mehdieker/"
    handle:    "m.mehdieker"
sources:
  - url: "https://tr.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mehdi_Eker"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF_%D9%85%D9%87%D8%AF%D9%8A_%D8%A5%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%B1"
    title: "محمد مهدي إيكر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehmet_Mehdi_Eker"
    title: "Mehmet Mehdi Eker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehmet_Mehdi_Eker"
    title: "Mehmet Mehdi Eker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehdi_Eker"
    title: "Mehdi Eker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehdi_Eker"
    title: "Mehdi Eker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehdi_Eker"
    title: "Mehdi Eker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q690972"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump