Gürer Aykal (born May 22, 1942) is a Turkish conductor and adjunct professor at Bilkent University.

He studied at the Ankara State Conservatory, completing a course on violin in 1963 (under Necdet Remzi Atak) and another on composition in 1969 (under Ahmed Adnan Saygun).

He went on to study conducting in London at the Guildhall School of Music, where he was taught by such conductors as André Previn and George Hurst.

Finally, on Adnan Saygun's request, he stayed in Italy to study Gregorian chant and polyphonic Renaissance music at the Pontificio Istituto di Musica Sacra.

Among Aykal's other appointments since returning to Turkey, he was named Artistic Director of the Antalya International Piano Festival in the summer of 2014.