Yusuf Akçura, Tatar-Turkish activist and ideologue of Turanism (died 1935)

Yusuf Akçura

Turkish historian (1876–1935)

Yusuf Akçura 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…