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Mehmet Ağar

Politician

Mehmet Ağar is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Mehmet Ağar · Мехмет Агар · محمد أغار · محمد اغار				[sources]
Alias	Mehmet Agar · Mehmet Kemal Ağar · Мехмет Агар · مەهمەتئا ğار				[sources]
Birth date	1951-10-30				[sources]
Place of birth	Ankara				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Türkiye				[sources]
Country	Türkiye				[sources]
Citizenship	Türkiye				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Kemal · Mehmet				[sources]
Last name	Ağar				[sources]
Political association	Democratic Party · True Path Party				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q735547				[sources]
Position	Grand National Assembly (member, 2002-2007) · Interior Minister of Turkey · Interior Minister of Turkey (1996-1996) · Leader of True path party (2002-2007) · Minister of Justice (1996-1996) · 2 more...				[sources]
Education	Ankara University Faculty of Political Science · Haydarpaşa High School				[sources]
Last change	2026-01-18	Last processed	2026-01-18	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Turkish statesperson (born 1951)

— Wikidata non-official source, 2025-12-29

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey	1996-01-08	-

Relatives
Person	Relationship	Start date	End date
Tolga Ağar Politician	child · father	-	-

Data sources

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons316,576

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories383,945

Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

MySociety's EveryPolitician Dataset of National Legislators40,660

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions525,917

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata334,491

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

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