Mehmet Altınsoy (1924 in Aksaray – 17 February 2007 in Ankara) was a Turkish politician, co-founder of the Motherland Party (Turkish: Anavatan Partisi), Mayor of Ankara and minister of state.
[1] Mehmet Altınsoy became a lawyer after graduating from the Law School at Ankara University.
Between 1984 and 1989, he served as the mayor of Greater Ankara and realized major infrastructure projects with the support of Prime Minister Turgut Özal, whom Altınsoy was considered to be a confidant.
After lying three days in a coma at the Atatürk Hospital in Ankara, where he was brought in following an intracranial hemorrhage caused by hypertension, he died on 17 February 2007.
He was buried at Karşıyaka Cemetery after the funeral service in Kocatepe Mosque.