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.
[2] 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.
[1] As the state prosecutor he filed a lawsuit demanding the closure of four pro-Kurdish political parties.