Mehmet Akarca (born 21 January 1963 in Şirvan,

Turkey Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armen ...

) is a jurist, a former state prosecutor and the current President of the Court of Cassations in Turkey.

Education and early life

He attended high school in

Karşıyaka Karşıyaka () is a municipality and district of İzmir Province, Turkey. Its area is 51 km2, and its population is 346,264 (2022). The district extends for twelve kilometres along the northern and eastern coastline of the tip of the Gulf of ...

and following studied law at the

Dokuz Eylül University Dokuz Eylül University () (DEÜ) is a Public university, public research university in İzmir, Turkey. Founded in 1982, it is organized into 18 faculties. It holds the distinction of being the first university in Turkey to implement the probl ...

from which he graduated in 1986. He entered the public administration, where he worked as a judge in courts in several cities throughout Turkey. During his career he served as the President of the Heavy Penal Court in

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and

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and the High Criminal Court in Izmir.

Court of Cassation

Mehmet Akarca, elected as a member of the Court of Cassation on 18 January 2010 and became the President of the 14th Chamber of the Court of Cassations in October 2013. He was elected as the head State Prosecutor of the Court of Cassation on the 18 May 2015 by President

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (born 26 February 1954) is a Turkish politician who is the 12th and current president of Turkey since 2014. He previously served as the 25th prime minister of Turkey, prime minister from 2003 to 2014 as part of the Jus ...

among the candidates nominated by the Grand General Assembly of the Supreme Court of Appeals. As the state prosecutor he filed a lawsuit demanding the closure of four pro-Kurdish political parties. In March 2020, he was elected the President of the Court of Cassations.

Personal life

He is married and has two children.

References

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