Roni Margulies (May 5, 1955 – July 19, 2023) was a Turkish poet, author, translator, and political activist.

[1] Margulies attended the English-medium Robert College and moved to London in 1972 to study Economics.

[3] Margulies started writing poetry in 1991 and won the prestigious Yunus Nadi Poetry Award in 2002 with his book of poems, Saat Fark (Time Difference).

[1] Margulies was a member of the Revolutionary Socialist Workers' Party (DSİP)[4] and translated Tony Cliff’s State Capitalism in Russia into Turkish.

[1][3] Margulies was also a member of the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party in the UK, a sister organisation of DSIP, and was active in both Turkish and British political discourse [5] Roni grew up with the Turkish intellectual and cultural historian of Islam İrvin Cemil Schick and they remained lifelong friends until Roni's death.