Mehmet Akarca (born 21 January 1963 in Şirvan,

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula in ...

) 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 district of İzmir Province in Turkey. The district extends for twelve kilometres along the northern and eastern coastline of the tip of the Gulf of İzmir. Its centre is at a distance of to the north from the traditional cen ...

and following studied law at the

Dokuz Eylül University Dokuz Eylül University ( tr, Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi) (DEÜ) is a university in İzmir, Turkey. It was founded in 1982 and is organized in 15 faculties. DEU is the first university which applied the problem-based learning method in Turkey, ...

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

Sivas Sivas (Latin and Greek: ''Sebastia'', ''Sebastea'', Σεβάστεια, Σεβαστή, ) is a city in central Turkey and the seat of Sivas Province. The city, which lies at an elevation of in the broad valley of the Kızılırmak river, is ...

and Kütahya 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 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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