In this paper, we propose the selection of most suitable mother wavelet function for Turkish phonemes using discrete wavelet transform. The determination of most similar mother wavelet function to the signal has been a challenge in speech processing. The optimum mother wavelet function for Turkish phonemes have been determined by using quantitative measures which were energy and Shannon entropy, information theoretic measures which were joint entropy, conditional entropy, mutual information, and relative entropy from wavelet coefficients of the phonemes. In this study, 101 potential functions were investigated to determine the most appropriate mother wavelet. Experimental results showed that the most appropriate wavelet functions for /ç/ and /ş/ phonemes which are unvoiced fricatives have been found as Reverse Bi-orthogonal 3.9 (rbio3.9) and Reverse Bi-orthogonal 5.5 (rbio5.5), respectively. By considering all the results, it was seen that the Bi-orthogonal 3.1 (bior3.1) and Discrete Meyer (dmey) wavelet functions were the most suitable mother wavelets for all other phonemes.