Mehmet Görmez (born 1959) is the former President of the Presidency of Religious Affairs (Turkish: Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı from November 2010 to 31 July 2017,[2] commonly known as Diyanet) and as such legally the highest level Islamic scholar in Turkey and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.

Mehmet Görmez was born in 1959 in Nizip in Gaziantep Province, Turkey.

In 1995, he earned his PhD in Islamic studies at the Ankara University.

[1] The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) declared him an apostate.

[4] He speaks fluent Turkish, Arabic, English,[5] and partially speaks a regional dialect of Kurdish that is heavily Turkish-influenced according to his own account.