"Mehmet Gürsoy, teacher and entrepreneur, paints with delicate finesse, accepting then breaking the rules and he has set the new standard, becoming the leader, most artists choose subtly to follow"

"Prof. Henry Glassie (chairman of Department of Folklore and Folklife at the University of Pennsylvania, Co-Director of Turkish Studies and College Professor of Folklore at the Indiana University)"

He was born in the south-western Turkish city of Denizli in 1950.

Originally a student of Prof. Muhsin Demironat, he has devoted 24 years of his life to art of Çini. While being based on 16th Century art, his work brings to the contemporary world a unique interpretation of Iznik, rather than being an exact replica of that period.

On a competition organised as a part of the 1986 '1st International Symposium of Çini' he was awarded first prize for vase, first place for plate and second place for panel decoration. His work is at constant display at the Museum of Anatolian Civilisations of Ankara Turkey, and Santa Fe Ethnographic Museum and Indiana University Museum of Art in the USA. The artist, who has also been lecturing at the Çini Department of Dumlupınar University of Kütahya for the last three years, has exhibited his work in several countries. He actually carries on his work in the new capital of Çini, Kütahya.