Derin Atakan (born 16 June 2006) is a Turkish female kitesurfer competing in the Formula Kite class.

[6] She was admitted to the Turkey national team of Formula Kite, which was included for the first time into the Sailing at the 2024 Summer Olympics.

[4] She took part for the first time at the Youth Sailing World Championships held in Al-Musannah, Oman,[4] and placed fourth.

The last five of the 20 places for women kitefoilers at the Olympics were awarded at the Last Chance Regatta in April 2024 to the Austrian Surfer Alina Kornelli, the Swiss surfer Elena Lengwiler, Julia Damasiewicz of Poland, Mafalda Pires de Lima of Portugal and[9] Atakan qualified to represent her country at the 2024 Olympics in Paris, France.

The four surfers in the final were her, the French woman Lysa Caval, Catalina Turienzo and Magdalena Woyciechowska [es] from Poland.