Nikolaos Tsourouktsoglou

Nikolaos Tsourouktsoglou (; ; Smyrna, 1861–1922) was a distinguished Greek lawyer and journalist who was a political and social activist. He was a city councillor and a member of the board of governors of Smyrna.

Biography Nikolaos Tsourouktsoglou was born in Smyrna (modern İzmir, Turkey) in 1861 to a Cappadocian Greek family originally from Kayseri in Cappadocia. As a child he attended and eventually graduated from the Evangelical School of Smyrna. After graduation, he studied at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and graduated with a law degree. After graduation, Nikolaos moved back to Smyrna where he eventually founded a French language newspaper called in 1900. In 1901, he co-founded a Greek language newspaper called . The Turkish military officer Nureddin Pasha ordered the execution of Tsourouktsoglou who was beheaded.