Ion Țurcanu (born 15 January 1946) is an author, educator, historian, memoirist, professor, former member of the Parliament (1990–1994), politician and Romanian writer from Moldova.

In the years 1987–1990 he published a series of articles in the Chișinău press to inform the population on the thorny subjects of the history of Bessarabia, and that of all Romanians.

In the same context he initiated a critique of the historiographical Soviet propaganda that falsified the historical themes mentioned above.

In 1998, he established the New Moldavian National Party, which participated in the local elections in 1999 and parliamentary ones in 2001, but without obtaining significant results.

He published a number of studies and books on various historical subjects: the political events in Bessarabia in 1917–1918, Bessarabian agrarian relations during the interwar period, the Bessarabian famine of 1946–1947, the resistance movement against Soviet occupation of Bessarabia during 1944–1953, political and ethnic relations east of the Carpathians in the period preceding the founding of the Romanian state of Moldova, the Greco-Roman antiquity on the Lower Dniester and the neighboring territories, the philosophy of history from the perspective of some Romanian thinkers, historical bibliography of Bessarabia and Transnistria, social and political realities in modern Moldova etc.