Editing Mehmet Agar (section)

==Life==
Ağar was born on October 30, 1951, in Çankaya Mansion in Ankara, where his father was on duty. Originally from Elazığ, Ağar's education took him to various cities due to his father's police chief duties. He started primary school in Şanlıurfa in 1957 and continued in Gümüşhane, Bolu, Adana, Ankara, and Erzincan. He began middle school in Erzincan and completed it in Kayseri, Diyarbakır, and Uşak. He started high school in Ankara and graduated from Haydarpaşa High School in Istanbul in 1968. In the same year, he enrolled in the Economics and Finance Department of Ankara University, Faculty of Political Sciences, with a scholarship from the General Directorate of Security, graduating in 1973. His first civil service positions were as a commissioner in the Public Order Department of the General Directorate of Security, followed by the Presidential Protection Directorate.

In 1976, he began his career at the Ministry of Interior as a district governor candidate in Ankara province. He served as acting district governor in İznik and Selçuk, and as district governor in Torul and Delice. In January 1980, he became assistant director of the Anti-Terror Branch of the Istanbul Police Department, and in May 1981, he became director of the Public Order Branch.

Between 1984 and 1988, he worked as Istanbul deputy police chief responsible for terrorism and public order. In 1988, he was appointed to the Ankara Police Department, in 1990 to the Istanbul Police Department, in 1992 to the Erzurum Governorship, and in July 1993 to the General Directorate of Security. While serving as the Governor of Erzurum, he was a wedding witness for Haluk Kırcı, one of the perpetrators of the Bahçelievler massacre, who was then a fugitive.

Uğur Dündar published Kırcı's statement given to the police and the State Security Court (DGM) in the Hürriyet newspaper on January 17, 1995. Kırcı described the wedding witness incident as follows:

"After benefiting from the Conditional Release Law and being released, I came to Erzurum. Before my wedding ceremony on August 1, 1992, the MHP provincial chairman and I went to Governor Mehmet Ağar's office. The provincial chairman introduced me to Ağar while handing him our wedding invitation and informed him. Ağar told his bodyguard to cancel another invitation he was supposed to attend on the wedding day and said he would definitely attend our ceremony. Initially, we did not intend to ask him to be a wedding witness. But when the city's governor accepted our invitation and came, we asked him to sit in the witness's chair."

In 1993, while serving as the Director General of Security, Mehmet Ağar made a statement regarding Hezbollah, saying, "Hezbollah refrains from actions against the state. Arresting organization members does not provide benefit."

Ağar was elected as an Elazığ Member of Parliament from the True Path Party in the December 24, 1995 general elections.