Mehmet Metiner

Mehmet Metiner (born March 5, 1960) is a Turkish-Kurdish journalist, writer, and politician. He started his political career as an Islamist but joined many parties during his career.

Personal life Mehmet Metiner was born on March 5, 1960, in the Kahta district of Adıyaman, Turkey, as the child of Kurdish couple Bedir and Nazı Metiner. He graduated from the Faculty of Letters at Istanbul University . He was the editor-in-chief of the journals Girişim, Yeni Zemin and Sahne, which increased his popularity among Islamists.

He began his career by joining Necmettin Erbakan's Welfare Party in 1995 until it was banned in 1998. He joined the Virtue Party right after. He would leave the Virtue Party in 2000, a year before it also got banned by the Turkish government. In 2000, he joined the mostly Kurdish HADEP but would leave it in less than a year. From 2001 until 2011, he remained without a party. In 2011, he entered the parliament as an AKP deputy. He participated in the 2011, June 2015 and November 2015 Turkish general elections.