Mehmet Ağar
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Mehmet Kemal Ağar (born 30 October 1951 in Ankara, Turkey) is a Turkish politician and leader of the Democratic Party.
The True Path Party (DYP) lost the 2002 parliamentary elections and Tansu Çiller resigned as leader of the party and retired from politics. Mehmet Ağar was the only representative of the party elected in the 2002 election from Elazığ and entered the Turkish Grand National Assembly. After Çiller's resignation, Ağar was elected as the new president of the True Path Party.
With the Susurluk Scandal of 1996 his political carrier ended for some time. This was due to his prosecution against 'the abuse of duty and creating a crime organization' in 1997.
On 5 May 2007 it was announced that DYP and the Motherland Party (ANAP) would merge to form the Democratic Party (Demokrat Parti). For that occasion, DYP renamed itself (based on the previous party of the same name), and it was planned that ANAP would join the newly founded DP.
Mehmet Agar resigned from his position as the leader of DP following the 22 July 2007 election
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Leader of the True Path Party (DYP) 2002–present |
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