Alev Alatlı (16 September 1944 – 2 February 2024) was a Turkish columnist, bestselling novelist, academician and economist.

She spent her childhood in Japan, where her father was appointed as the Military attaché in the Embassy of Turkey and also as the Liaison officer of the Turkish Brigade in Korea to the United Nations.

After finishing high school there, her family returned to Turkey, and Alev studied economics at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, from where she graduated in 1963 with a Bachelor of Science degree.

Educated at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, she earned a Master of Arts in Development Economics and Econometrics.

[1] By this time, she had started to think about the importance of formulas and figures in explaining the world, and decided to pursue studies in philosophy.

She worked for a while as a lecturer at Istanbul University and later at the State Planning Organization (DPT) in Ankara in her capacity as an economist.

She was also involved in a psycholinguistic project of the University of California, Berkeley on language learning patterns of Turkish children.

Born and christened at the Apostolos Andreas Monastery on the Karpas Peninsula of Cyprus, she dies in a tragic manner at 32 in Piraeus, Greece, after two marriages – one with a Muslim Turkish Cypriot, the other with an Orthodox Greek – and five children.

Alatlı wrote two futuristic books, "Kabus" (The Nightmare) in 1999 and "Rüya" (The Dream) in 2000 comprising "Schrodinger's Cat".

In February 2008, an article of her on the women's Islamic headgear turban was not allowed to be published by the newspaper's editor-in-chief with the argument "our readers are not ready for that".