Ahmet Emin Yalman (14 May 1888 – 19 December 1972) was a Turkish Sabbatean (crypto-jew) journalist, publisher, professor and influential policy-advisor in the Republic of Turkey.

[1] Ahmet Emin Yalman was born into a Dönmeh family in 1888 in Thessaloniki, at that time part of the Ottoman Empire.

[4] In 1919, due to his opposition to the government of Damat Ferid Pasha, Yalman was exiled for three months to Kutahya[4] by the order of the Sultan Mehmed VI.

Following this he became a fierce critic of Kemalist Government, especially of Prime Minister İsmet İnönü who demanded the imposition of the law for the restoration of order during the Sheikh Said rebellion.

[5] Due to this opposition, Yalman had to stand trial in front of the Independence Tribunals and was banned from journalistic activities until 1936.

Yalman received numerous awards, including the Golden Pen of Freedom of the International Federation of Newspaper Publishers in 1961 and The Gold Medal of the British Institute of Journalists.