Mehmet Bekaroğlu (born in 1954) is a Turkish human rights activist, a scientist, professor, a psychiatrist, a writer, and a politician of Laz origin.

However, this new movement failed to take hold after Günay joined the Justice and Development Party (AKP).

He was the Felicity Party candidate for the Istanbul Metropolitan Mayoralty in the 2009 local elections and the Felicity Party candidate for the Rize Mayoralty in the 2014 local elections.

In the 2014 presidential election, he was suggested by CHP parliamentary group leader Muharrem İnce as a possible candidate.

On 16 November 2023 during the ongoing 2023 Israel-Hamas war, he compared Hamas to Kuva-yi Milliye on his X account against designations of the group as a terrorist organisation.