Yusuf Akcura

Yusuf Akcura

December 02, 1876 – March 11, 1935
Place of Birth: Simbirsk, Russian Empire
Place of Death: Istanbul, Turkey

Yusuf Akçura (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.