Mehmet Akarca
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Mehmed Akarca | |
|---|---|
| President of the Court of Cassation in Turkey | |
| Assumed office 24 March 2020 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 21 January 1963 |
| Occupation | Judge |
Mehmet Akarca (born 21 January 1963 in Şirvan, Turkey) is a jurist, a former state prosecutor and the current President of the Court of Cassations in Turkey.
He attended high school in Karşıyaka and following studied law at the Dokuz Eylül University from which he graduated in 1986.[1] 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 Sivas and Kütahya[2] and the High Criminal Court in Izmir.[3]
