Yusuf Akçura
Yusuf Akçura | |
|---|---|
| President of Turkish Historical Society | |
| In office 8 April 1932 – 11 March 1935 | |
| Preceded by | Tevfik Bıyıklıoğlu |
| Succeeded by | Hasan Cemil Çambel |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 2 December 1876 Simbirsk, Russian Empire (now Ulyanovsk, Russia) |
| Died | 11 March 1935 (aged 58) Istanbul, Turkey |
Yusuf Akçura (Tatar: Йосыф Хәсән улы Акчура, romanized: Yosıf Xəsən ulı Aqçura; Russian: Юсуф Хасанович Акчурин, romanized: Jusuf Hasanovich Akchurin; 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.