3 January] 1879 – 17 April 1938), also written as Aqchoqraqli or Akchokrakli, was a Crimean Tatar writer, journalist, historian, archaeologist, ethnographer, and teacher.

Osman Nuri-Asan oğlu Aqçoqraqlı was born in the city of Bakhchysarai into the family of an Arabic script calligrapher on 15 January 1879.

In 1908, he moved to Cairo and began taking private lessons on eastern history, Arabic literature, and archaeology from Al-Azhar University.

[1] Aqçoqraqlı was later placed in charge of translating Russian literary works into the Crimean Tatar language, among them The Fountain of Bakhchisaray, Marriage, and the fables of Ivan Krylov.

He collected and described about 400 Crimean Tatar tamgas and studied numerous epigraphs in Crimea dating back to the Middle Ages.

[2] In the early 1930s, Aqçoqraqlı began to be persecuted by the Soviet authorities on charges of "nationalism," leading to his firing from the Crimean Tatar Pedagogical Institute in 1934.

[3] However, his time in Baku would be short-lived; on 5 April 1937, he was arrested by the NKVD and charged with "participation in a nationalist counter-revolutionary organisation," (stated to be the Crimean Tatar party Milliy Firqa), as well as espionage.