H.E. Mehmet Akarca
Mehmet Akarca is the incumbent Chief Ombudsman of Turkiye and President of OIC Ombudsman Association.
He is also a jurist, a former state prosecutor, and the former President of the Court of Cassations in Turkiye.
Mehmet Akarca was 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 May 18 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.
