Mehmet Ocaktan

Mehmet Ocaktan (born 8 June 1955, Dursunbey, Balıkesir Province

Career Ocaktan has worked for the newspapers Yeni Devir, Tercüman and Güneş and was the founding editor of Yeni Şafak in 1994. He was a deputy in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey representing Bursa for the Justice and Development Party from 2007 to 2011, before returning to journalism at the Star newspaper.

In 2013 he became the editor of Akşam after the newspaper was acquired by the government's TMSF.

He has published three books of poetry.