Türkan Saylan (13 December 1935 – 18 May 2009) was a Turkish medical doctor in dermatology, academic, writer, teacher and social activist.

She was famous for fighting leprosy, and for founding a charitable foundation called "Association for the Support of Contemporary Living" (Çağdaş Yaşamı Destekleme Derneği, ÇYDD).

[1] She was the first born to Fasih Galip, one of the first building contractors in Turkey's republican era, and Swiss Lili Mina Raiman who converted to Christian[2] and changed her name to Leyla after the marriage.

[1] Later on, she worked as a doctor in the department of dermatological and venereal diseases in SSK Nisantasi Hospital.

She has worked as the voluntary head physician in Istanbul Lepra Hospital for 21 years, between 1981 and 2002.