Sefer Turan (born 1962 Afşin, Kahramanmaras, Turkey) is a Turkish journalist and author. Turan was educated in Egypt and he knows Arabic very well.

Sefer Turan is one of the few Middle East experts in Turkey. He served as a head of foreign news department at the Channel 7 TV station. He prepared and presented "the East & West" program at the ULKE TV.

Turan monitored Afghanistan and Iraq wars. His most remarkable works are on Palestine case. He prepared programs on Second Intifada, Palestine-Israel and Lebanon-Israel conflicts.

Sefer Turan attends as a political commentator on international TV Programs such as Al Jazeera, BBC Arabic, Rusiya Al-Yaum. He is appointed to the post of coordinator at state channel TRT el Türkiye which started broadcasting in Arabic^[1] He is currently serving as the chief advisor in Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's office.^[2] He has written several articles supporting the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, listed by the United Nations Security Council as an al-Qaeda-affiliated group.^[3]

Sefer Turan married and he has three children.

• Jerusalem: Heart of the history (2004)
• My travels (2006)
• Historian of sciences: Fuat Sezgin (2010)

• Qantara: New Arabic Station Aims to Unite Turkish and Arab Worlds - Interview with Sefer Turan
• Turkey uses TV to seduce Arab world
• Abdulhamid Bilici: Selamün aleyküm min İstanbul!
• Ennahar: TV, Turkey's new weapon to win over the Arab world