Evrim Alataş (born 15 April 1976; Gölpınar, Akçadağ – 12 April 2010; Diyarbakır) was a Kurdish writer, journalist, screenwriter and human rights activist.

Alataş is described as the first female Kurdish writer of Turkey.

[1] Her works include the film Min Dît: The Children of Diyarbakır from 2009, which won the grand jury prize at the 46th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival.

[2][3] Born in the village of Gölpınar in Malatya in 1976 to a Kurdish family, Alataş started her journalism career in 1994 by working as a reporter and editor at various left-wing newspapers such as Yeni Politika, Özgür Bakış, Ülkede Özgür Gündem and later as a columnist for Evrensel and BirGün.

Many of her writings for these newspapers were about Kurds in Turkey.