Mehmet Altınsoy (1924 in

Aksaray Aksaray () is a city in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey. It is the seat of Aksaray Province and Aksaray District.

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) was a Turkish politician, co-founder of the Motherland Party (), Mayor of Ankara and minister of state.

Biography

Mehmet Altınsoy became a lawyer after graduating from the Law School at Ankara University. He entered politics after the military coup of 1960. By keeping his nationalist-conservative line in the last 50 years of the history of Turkish politics, he was a member of several political parties like

Nationalist Movement Party The Nationalist Movement Party, or alternatively translated as Nationalist Action Party (, MHP), is a Turkish Far-right politics, far-right, ultranationalism, ultranationalist Political parties in Turkey, political party. The group is often de ...

, Motherland Party and finally

Welfare Party The Welfare Party (, RP) was an Islamist political party in Turkey. It was founded by Ali Türkmen, Ahmet Tekdal, and Necmettin Erbakan in Ankara in 1983 as heir to two earlier parties, National Order Party (MNP) and National Salvation Party ...

. He was appointed a founding member of the

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in 1961. He was appointed minister in the cabinet of

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Suat Hayri Ürgüplü Ali Suat Hayri Ürgüplü (13 August 1903 – 26 December 1981) was a Turkish politician who served a brief term as Prime Minister of Turkey in 1965. He was also the last Prime Minister to be born outside the territory of present-day Turkey, be ...

in 1965. Mehmet Altınsoy served until 1969 in the parliament. In 1983, he was among the founders of

Turgut Özal Halil Turgut Özal (13 October 192717 April 1993) was a Turkish politician, bureaucrat, engineer and statesman who served as the eighth president of Turkey from 1989 to 1993. He previously served as the 26th prime minister of Turkey from 1983 ...

's Motherland Party. Between 1984 and 1989, he served as the mayor of Greater Ankara and realized major

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projects with the support of Prime Minister Turgut Özal, whom Altınsoy was considered to be a confidant. He became a minister for the second time, in the Welfare Party and

True Path Party The True Path Party (, DYP) was a centre-right political party in Turkey, active from 1983 to 2007. For most of its history, the party's central figure was Süleyman Demirel, a former Prime Minister of Turkey who previously led the Justice Part ...

coalition cabinet in 1996-1997. After lying three days in a

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at the Atatürk Hospital in

, where he was brought in following an

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caused by

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, he died on 17 February 2007. Mehmet Altınsoy was first married with Necla (1928-2001), the daughter of former President of Religious Affairs Ahmet Hamdi Akseki, with whom he had two daughters Yasemin and Sedef. He was buried at

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after the funeral service in

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References

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