| Sefer Turan | |
| Birth Date: | 1962 |
| Birth Place: | Kahramanmaras, Turkey |
| Office: | Chief Advisor to Prime Minister of Turkey |
| Term Start: | April 2011 |
| Office1: | TRT At Turkiyya Coordinator |
| Term Start1: | 30 June 2009 |
| Term End1: | April 2011 |
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.