Mustafa Şükrü Elekdağ (pronounced [ʃyˈcɾy elekdaː]; born 29 September 1924)[1] is a Turkish diplomat, academician, and politician.

He earned a postgraduate degree and became Master of Economics from the University of Paris with the help of a scholarship from the French government.

He served as the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ambassador of Turkey to Japan (1970–1974),[2] and the United States (1979–1989).

In 1994, he wrote the 2½ War Strategy about Turkey's neighborhood relations and national security policy.

[8] Historian Taner Akçam describes Elekdag's policy on the Armenian Genocide as "extreme nationalist and aggressive denial".