Osman Mümtaz Soysal (15 September 1929 – 11 November 2019) was a Turkish professor of constitutional law, political scientist, politician, human rights activist, ex-prisoner of conscience, senior advisor, columnist, and author.
As a hard-line Kemalist statist, Mümtaz Soysal persistently worked against privatisation policies and initiatives of Turkish governments, especially in the 1990s.
He founded Center for Development of Public Enterprise in April 1994, and the organisation was converted to a foundation in 1996.
[1] He was born on 15 September 1929 in Zonguldak, Turkey to Osman Muhtar, a naval kol aghassi and his wife Samiye.
He then entered the Constituent Assembly of Turkey after the 1960 military coup and helped write the Turkish Constitution of 1961.
He was also the editor-in-chief of a newly founded weekly political magazine, Ortam, when he was arrested.
Mümtaz Soysal died at the age of 90 on 11 November 2019 at his home in Beşiktaş, Istanbul, Turkey.