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Mehmet Başbuğ (Diyarbakır, 1956 – Bishkek, 2017) was a painter and an academic. His principal subjects are the Turkish War of Independence, the women of Anatolia, migration and Turkestan; in scenes of villages, markets and coffeehouses he painted the everyday life of Anatolia.

He held more than eighty solo exhibitions in Turkey and abroad and won eighteen awards in national competitions. His paintings are in the collections of the Turkish Presidency, the Grand National Assembly of Turkey and the Ankara State Museum of Painting and Sculpture. In 2017 the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey issued his painting “63” as a silver commemorative coin.

From 2009 until his death he worked in Bishkek at Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University; in 2015 he became a full member of the Kyrgyz Academy of Arts.