# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mehmet-agar
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:59:05.481Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mehmet-agar"
name: "Mehmet Ağar"
slug: "mehmet-agar"
description: "Mehmet Kemal Ağar 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, 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."
tagline: "Turkish statesperson (born 1951)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mehmet_Aghar_in_2023.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Turkey"
  isoCode: "TR"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1951-10-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.36
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.117793333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://tr.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mehmet_A%C4%9Far"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehmet_A%C4%9Far"
    title: "Mehmet Ağar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehmet_A%C4%9Far"
    title: "Mehmet Ağar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehmet_A%C4%9Far"
    title: "Mehmet Ağar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehmet_A%C4%9Far"
    title: "Mehmet Ağar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehmet_A%C4%9Far"
    title: "Mehmet Ağar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehmet_A%C4%9Far"
    title: "Mehmet Ağar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehmet_A%C4%9Far"
    title: "Mehmet Ağar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehmet_A%C4%9Far"
    title: "Mehmet Ağar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehmet_A%C4%9Far"
    title: "Mehmet Ağar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q735547"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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