Mehmet Acet was born in 1976 in the Turkish city of Konya, where he attended primary and middle school. After graduating from Marmara University’s Communications Faculty in Turkey, Acet started his career by interning for TRT in 1995. A year later, he started working as a reporter on the foreign news desk at Kanal 7. He made a name for himself when he broadcasted to the world footage of the war in Kosovo. In 2005, he became the youngest manager of Kanal 7 when he was appointed as the Ankara representative of the channel. Acet, who has been the Ankara representative of Kanal 7 for 11 years, participates in weekly political programs on both Kanal 7 and Ülke TV. He is married and has two children.