Yusuf Akçura, Tatar-Turkish activist and ideologue of Turanism (d. 1935)

Yusuf Akçura (Tatar: Йосыф Акчура; 2 December 1876 – 11 March 1935) was a prominent Turkish politician, writer and ideologist of ethnic Tatar origin. He developed into a prominent ideologue and advocate of Pan-Turkism during the early republican period, whose writings became widely read and who became one of the leading university professors in Istanbul.