Sabahattin Çakmakoğlu (25 November 1930 – 24 October 2024) was a Turkish bureaucrat and politician who served as the Minister of National Defense from 1999 to 2002.

Beginning his career as a bureaucrat, Çakmakoğlu served as the Kaymakam (sub-Governor) of numerous districts before being appointed the Deputy Governor of Ankara.

Having received his primary and secondary education in Kayseri, he graduated from Ankara University Faculty of Political Science in 1953.

He became a Civilian Administrative Officer and a candidate to become a Kaymakam (a district governor, roughly translated as a 'sub-governor').

With the Constitution requiring that the serving partisan Ministers of the Interior, of Transport and of Justice should vacate their position to their respective Undersecretaries at least three months before a general election, Çakmakoğlu took over from Mustafa Kalemli as Minister of the Interior on 30 August 1991, three months before the 1991 general election.

The MHP managed to win parliamentary representation once again in the 2007 general election, with Çakmakoğlu again returning as an MP for Kayseri.

[4] A secondary school with the same name exists in Mersin Province, where Çakmakoğlu served as Governor between 1984 and 1988.