Mehmet Talât Tekin (July 16, 1927, Tavşancıl [tr], Dilovası - November 28, 2015, Bodrum) was a Turkish linguist, Turkologist, researcher and writer who made important contributions to Turkology, the study of Old Turkic inscriptions, and Altaistics.
In 1946 entered Istanbul University and studied in the Department of Turkish Language and Literature, receiving his degree in 1951.
[2] In 1961 Tekin was appointed as a research assistant in the Near Eastern Languages Department at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he began his doctoral studies with Janós Eckmann.
In 1970 he defended a thesis at Istanbul University entitled Ana Türkçede Aslî Uzun Ünlüler (Primary long vowels in Proto-Turkic), and was appointed associate professor.
He returned to Turkey in 1972 and joined the Department of Turkish Language and Literature at Hacettepe University in Ankara.