Mehmet Ağar

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Mehmet Kemal Ağar (born 30 October 1951) 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. 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. From 2018-2021 he managed the luxury marina "Yalikavak Marina" near Bodrum, but was forced to resign after mafia boss Sedat Peker blew the whistle with his 2021 videos.

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