Kudret Türküm is a contemporary Turkish painter. His interest in the history of painting began with the Renaissance, progressed through Neoclassicism, and culminated in his study of the Impressionists and New Impressionists, which led them to the Post-Impressionists. People, animals, objects, and places in his paintings, which he created about his local surroundings, are often based on photographs he took.

Kudret Turkum was born in 1985, in Turkey, where he graduated from the Mimar Sinan University Painting Department.