She spent three years as the head of Girne District between 2015 and September 2018 and fifteen months as Minister of Health between May 2022 and August 2023.

Altuğra was born in 1972[1] in Limassol and educated at the Department of Biology of the Hacettepe University Faculty of Science.

[10] On 11 August 2023, Altuğra was replaced as minister by Hakan Dinçyürek when Ünal Üstel started a new cabinet.

[11] In September 2023, Altuğra was present at the sixth death anniversary memorial service of MP Mustafa Hacıahmetoğlu [tr].

[12] In October 2023, in response to a counterfeit prescription scandal in the country, she supported drug monitoring and the creation of a qualified pharmaceutical facility within Northern Cyprus, warning that "if we do not produce, we will be destroyed".