Ahmet Ferit Tek (1877 – 25 November 1971) was an Ottoman-born Turkish military officer, academic, politician, government minister and diplomat.

Ahmet Ferit Tek was born to Mustafa Reşit, an accountant at the Ottoman Ministry of Finance, and his wife Hanife Leyla in Bursa in 1877.

During this time, he also wrote for Şura-yı Ümmet ("People's Council", 1902–1929), an Ottoman periodical published by the Committee of Union and Progress of the Young Turks movement.

The ideas in the party programme of the nationalistic movement were "The Turks had fought on the frontiers of the Empire for centuries.

On 25 March 1912, he co-founded Türk Ocakları (Turkish Hearths), a nationalistic organization, with Mehmet Emin Yurdakul (1869–1944), Ahmet Ağaoğlu (1869–1939), Yusuf Akçura (1876–1935) and some others.

After the proclamation of the Turkish Republic, he remained in the parliament as a deputy of Kütahya, and was appointed the Minister of the Interior in the 1st and the 2nd cabinet of İsmet İnönü between 30 October 1923 and 22 November 1924.

[8] Ahmet Ferit Tek died in Istanbul on 25 November 1971, eight months after his wife's death.