Mesut Yılmaz

**Ahmet Mesut Yılmaz** (6 November 1947 – 30 October 2020) a Turkish politician. He was the leader of the Motherland Party from 1991 to 2002.

Three times, he was the Prime Minister of Turkey. His first two terms lasted just months (in 1991 and 1996), while the third ran from June 1997 to January 1999.

Yılmaz died on 30 October 2020 from lung cancer at a hospital in Istanbul at the age of 72.

## Other websites

- Biography at Motherland Party's website
- Personal Website
- Biography at biyografi.net (Turkish)

## Infobox (president)

- **name**: Mesut Yılmaz
- **nationality**: Turkish
- **image**:
- **caption**: Yılmaz in Brussels (1996)
- **order**: 21st Prime Minister of Turkey
- **term start**: 30 June 1997
- **term end**: 11 January 1999
- **president**: Süleyman Demirel
- **predecessor**: Necmettin Erbakan
- **successor**: Bülent Ecevit
- **term start2**: 6 March 1996
- **term end2**: 28 June 1996
- **president2**: Süleyman Demirel
- **predecessor2**: Tansu Çiller
- **successor2**: Necmettin Erbakan
- **term start3**: 23 June 1991
- **term end3**: 20 November 1991
- **president3**: Turgut Özal
- **predecessor3**: Yıldırım Akbulut
- **successor3**: Süleyman Demirel
- **office4**: Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey
- **term start4**: 13 July 2000
- **term end4**: 18 November 2002
- **predecessor4**: Cumhur Ersümer
- **successor4**: Mehmet Ali Şahin
- **primeminister4**: Bülent Ecevit
- **1blankname4**: 57th government of Turkey, Served with
- **1namedata4**: Devlet Bahçeli
Hüsamettin Özkan
Şükrü Sina Gürel
- **office5**: Motherland Party (Turkey), Leader of the Motherland Party
- **term start5**: 15 June 1991
- **term end5**: 4 November 2002
- **predecessor5**: Yıldırım Akbulut
- **successor5**: Ali Talip Özdemir
- **office6**: 25th Minister of Foreign Affairs (Turkey), Minister of Foreign Affairs
- **term start6**: 22 December 1987
- **term end6**: 20 February 1990
- **predecessor6**: Vahit Melih Halefoğlu
- **successor6**: Ali Bozer
- **primeminister6**: Turgut Özal
Yıldırım Akbulut
- **office7**: Ministry of Culture and Tourism (Turkey), Minister of Culture and Tourism
- **term start7**: 17 October 1986
- **term end7**: 21 December 1987
- **primeminister7**: Turgut Özal
- **predecessor7**: Mükerrem Taşçıoğlu
- **successor7**: Tınaz Titiz
- **office8**: Minister of State
- **term start8**: 28 May 1999
- **term end8**: 18 November 2002
- **primeminister8**: Bülent Ecevit
- **term start9**: 13 December 1983
- **term end9**: 17 October 1986
- **primeminister9**: Turgut Özal
- **successor9**: Hasan Celal Güzel
- **office10**: Grand National Assembly of Turkey#Composition, Member of the Grand National Assembly
- **term start10**: 22 July 2007
- **term end10**: 12 June 2011
- **constituency10**: Rize (electoral district), Rize (Turkish general election, 2007, 2007)
- **term start11**: 24 November 1983
- **term end11**: 3 November 2002
- **constituency11**: Rize (electoral district), Rize (Turkish general election, 1983, 1983, Turkish general election, 1987, 1987, Turkish general election, 1991, 1991, Turkish general election, 1995, 1995, Turkish general election, 1999, 1999)
- **birth place**: Istanbul, Turkey
- **death place**: Istanbul, Turkey
- **spouse**: Berna Yılmaz
- **party**: Motherland Party (Turkey), Motherland Party
- **signature**: Mesut Yılmaz signature.png