Nilüfer Gürsoy (née Bayar; 1 June 1921 – 1 July 2024) was a Turkish philologist, politician and memoirist.

She then attended Maarif Koleji (later TED Ankara College) for her secondary and high school education, graduating in 1939.

[1] She was dismissed from the university after the 1960 coup d'état when her father, President Celâl Bayar, and her husband Ahmet İhsan Gürsoy, Deputy of Kütahya from the Democrat Party, together with many other government officials and politicians, were arrested by the junta, and sent to Yassıada, a small island off the coast of Istanbul, to put on trials before a Supreme Court of Justice.

She ran for the Justice Party for the Deputy of Bursa in the 1965 general election, and entered the Grand National Assembly of Turkey serving in the 13th Parliament until 1969.

[2] Gürsoy returned to her initial party AP and she ran in the 1977 general election for the Deputy of Istanbul.

In 2021, when she was almost 100 years old, her poems and memoirs regarding the early political history of the Republic were published in the book İçimin Renkleri ("Colors of My Inside").

[5] In 2015, she donated a collection of around 20,000 books, also including her father's, to the Library of History, Literature and Arts of the Kadıköy municipality in Istanbul.