| Mehdi Eker | |
| Office: | Minister of Food, Agriculture and Livestock |
| Primeminister: | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Ahmet Davutoğlu |
| Term Start: | 2 June 2005 |
| Term End: | 28 August 2015 |
| Predecessor: | Sami Güçlü |
| Successor: | Kutbettin Arzu |
| Office1: | Member of the Grand National Assembly |
| Term Start1: | 8 July 2018 |
| Constituency1: | Diyarbakır (2018) |
| Term Start2: | 19 November 2002 |
| Term End2: | 7 June 2015 |
| Constituency2: | Diyarbakır (2002, 2007, 2011) |
| Birth Date: | 1 January 1956 |
| Birth Place: | Bismil, Diyarbakır, Turkey |
| Party: | Justice and Development Party |
| Spouse: | Yasemin Eker |
| Alma Mater: | Ankara University |
Mehmet Mehdi Eker is a Turkish politician who served as the Minister of Food, Agriculture and Livestock of Turkey from 2005 until 2015.[1] [2] He was elected a Member of Parliament for the electoral district of Diyarbakır for Democratic People's Party in 2002.[3] He was re-elected in 2007[4] and 2011[5] for the Justice and Development Party (AKP). He was again elected as an MP in 2018.[6]
A veterinarian and agro-economist he had a career as a civil servant in the ministry of agriculture before entering politics at the age of 46.
As minister of Agriculture he has had to deal with issues including: