Yusuf Akçura

Yusuf Akçura
President of Turkish Historical Society
In office
8 April 1932 – 11 March 1935
Preceded byTevfik Bıyıklıoğlu
Succeeded byHasan Cemil Çambel
Personal details
Born(1876-12-02)2 December 1876
Died11 March 1935(1935-03-11) (aged 58)
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Yusuf Akçura (Tatar: Йосыф Хәсән улы Акчура, romanized: Yosıf Xəsən ulı Aqçura; Russian: Юсуф Хасанович Акчурин, romanizedJusuf 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.