Mehmet Terzi (born 5 May 1955) is a medal-winning former long-distance runner from Turkey, who specialized in running marathons.

[1] He competed for Turkey in marathon at the 1984 Los Angeles and 1988 Seoul Olympics, but did not achieve a top rank.

[1] In 2004, Mehmet Terzi was elected president of the Turkish Athletic Federation for a term of four years.

He won his third consecutive election in 2012, but was forced to resign after a high-profile doping scandal in Turkish athletics during the summer of 2013.

Terzi resigned from the TAF Presidency on 1 August 2013, just before the World Championships in Moscow.