Yusuf Akçura (Tatar: Йосыф Хәсән улы Акчура, romanized: Yosıf Xəsən ulı Aqçura; Russian: Юсуф Хасанович Акчурин, romanized: Jusuf Hasanovich Akchurin; 2 December 1876 – 11 March 1935) was a prominent Turkish politician, writer and ideologist of ethnic Tatar origin.

He developed into a prominent ideologue and advocate of Pan-Turkism during the early republican period, whose writings became widely read and who became one of the leading university professors in Istanbul.

[9] In November 1911 The association began to publish a magazine bearing its name, Türk Yurdu, which sought to become the intellectual force behind Turkish nationalism.

[14] After having accomplished his mission for the Ottoman Red Crescent, he returned to Turkey and joined the newly founded party Milli Türk Fırkası in October 1919.

[15] Differing from the regime somewhat, he defined the Turkish identity in purely ethnic terms and came to look outside the borders of the country for a kinship with other Turkic peoples.

He also called for creation of a national economy and a move away from Islamic values (an area in which he clashed with Ziya Gökalp, as Akçura wanted a secular Turkey, fearing that Pan-Islamism would hinder nationalist development), meaning that he was largely sympathetic to Kemal Atatürk.