Yusuf Akçura (Tatar: Йосыф Хәсән улы Акчура, romanized: Yosıf Xäsän uğlı Aqçura; Russian: Юсуф Хасанович Акчурин, romanized: Jusuf Hasanovič Akčurin; 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. Source: Wikipedia (en)