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Turkish people The Turkish people, or simply the Turks ( tr, Türkler), are the world's largest Turkic ethnic group; they speak various dialects of the Turkish language and form a majority in Turkey and Northern Cyprus. In addition, centuries-old ethnic ...

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Ekrem Akurgal Ekrem Akurgal (March 30, 1911 – November 1, 2002) was a Turkish archaeologist. During a career that spanned more than fifty years, he conducted definitive research in several sites along the western coast of Anatolia such as Phokaia (Foça) ...

Sedat Alp Prof. Ord. Sedat Alp (January 1, 1913 in Veroia – October 9, 2006 in Ankara) was the first Turkish archaeologist, historian and academic with a specialization in Hittitology, and was among the foremost names in the field. He was the president ...

Hatice Gonnet-Bağana Hatice Gonnet-Bağana (born 1932, in Istanbul) is a Turkish archaeologist specialising in the Hittites. She is an emerita researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research. Life Hatice Bağana was born in Istanbul in 1932. Her gre ...

Halet Çambel Halet Çambel (27 August 1916 – 12 January 2014) was a Turkish archaeologist and Olympic fencer. She was the first woman with a Muslim background to compete in the Olympic Games. Private life Çambel was born in Berlin, German Empire on ...

Tahsin Özgüç Tahsin Özgüç (1916–2005) was an eminent Turkish field archaeologist. The careers of Tahsin Özgüç and his wife, Nimet Özgüç, began after World War II and lasted for nearly 60 years. He was said to be the doyen of Anatolian archaeology. ...

Yahşi Baraz Yahşi Baraz (born April 19, 1944) is a Turkish art dealer. He is the founder and the director of one of Turkey's earliest art galleries, Galeri Baraz. Early life and career Yahşi Baraz was born in Istanbul, Turkey. He is the son of Ahmet Müni ...

Sait Faik Abasıyanık Sait Faik Abasıyanık (18 November 1906 – 11 May 1954) was one of the greatest Turkish writers of short stories and poetry and considered an important literary figure of the 1940s. He created a brand new style in Turkish literature and bro ...

Halide Edib Adıvar Halide Edib Adıvar ( ota, خالده اديب , sometimes spelled Halidé Edib in English; 11 June 1884 – 9 January 1964) was a Turkish novelist, teacher, ultranationalist and feminist intellectual. She was best known for her novels criticiz ...

Ahmet Ağaoğlu Ahmet Ağaoğlu, also known as Ahmet Bey Ağaoğlu ( az, Əhməd bəy Ağaoğlu; December 1869 – 19 May 1939), was a prominent Azerbaijani and naturalized Turkish politician, publicist and journalist. He was one of the founders of Pan-Turkis ...

Süreyya Ağaoğlu Süreyya Ağaoğlu (1903, Shusha, Azerbaijan – 29 December 1989, Istanbul) was a Turkish- Azerbaijani writer, jurist, and the first female lawyer in Turkish history.Ghada Talhami. Historical Dictionary of Women in the Middle East and North ...

Zeynep Ahunbay Zeynep Ahunbay (born 1946 in Ünye, Ordu Province) is a leading Turkish scholar of antiquities. Biography Dr. Ahunbay was born in Ünye, Ordu Province, a small town in the Black Sea region of Turkey. She received her PhD in architectural his ...

Yusuf Akçura Yusuf Akçura ( tt-Cyrl, Йосыф Акчура; 2 December 1876 – 11 March 1935) was a prominent Turkish politician, writer and ideologist of ethnic Tatar origin. He developed into a prominent ideologue and advocate of Pan-Turkism during t ...

Sunay Akın Sunay Akın (born September 12, 1962) is a Turkish poet, writer, TV host, journalist, and a philanthropist. He is the founder of Istanbul Toy Museum. Akın was born in Trabzon, Turkey. Akın is best known for his poetry; his primary influenc ...

Muammer Aksoy Muammer Aksoy (1917 – January 31, 1990) was a Turkish academic of law, politician, columnist and intellectual. He was assassinated. Biography Aksoy was born 1917 in İbradı, Antalya Province to the member of the Ottoman parliament Numan Aks ...

Fikri Alican Fikri Alican (2 April 1929 – 19 August 2015) was a Turkish scientist and physician with various contributions to medical science, ranging from organ transplantation to physiology. Early life and career Alican was born in Adapazarı, a city ...

Ahmet Altan Ahmet Hüsrev Altan (born 2 March 1950) is a Turkish journalist and author. A working journalist for more than twenty years, he has served in all stages of the profession, from being a night shift reporter to editor in chief in various newspaper ...

Çetin Altan Çetin Altan (22 June 1927 – 22 October 2015) was a Turkish writer, journalist, and a member of parliament. He was considered one of the finest writers in the modern Turkish language of the late 20th century. Early years Çetin Altan was ...

İhsan Oktay Anar İhsan Oktay Anar (born 1960 in Yozgat, Turkey), is a Turkish writer, illustrator, literature translator and an academic. He studied philosophy in Ege University Ege University or Aegean University ( tr, Ege Üniversitesi) is a public res ...

Melih Cevdet Anday Melih Cevdet Anday (13 March 1915 – 28 November 2002) was a Turkish writer whose poetry stands outside the traditional literary movements. He also wrote in many other genres which, over six and a half decades, included eleven collections of p ...

Engin Ardıç Engin Ardıç (born 1 February 1952) is a Turkish writer and a newspaper columnist for the Sabah newspaper. He also worked as a television commentator in the 1990s. Biography Ardıç was born on 1 February 1952 in Trabzon, a coastal city on th ...

Meltem Arıkan Handan Meltem Arıkan (born January 7, 1968) is a Turkish novelist and playwright. Biography Arıkan was born and grew up in Ankara, Turkey. Currently she is UK based since she was persecuted by the Turkish government. The play Mi Minör is con ...

Ayşe Arman Ayşe Arman (born 9 December 1969) is a Turkish journalist and columnist of German descent. She is best known for her interviews. Arman is the author of two books, one of which is a compilation of best moments of her interviews made over the pa ...

Cihat Arman Cihat Arman (1915 in Istanbul – May 14, 1994 in Istanbul), was a Turkish football goalkeeper and manager. He represented Turkey at the 1936 Summer Olympics and the 1948 Summer Olympics. Biography Arman started playing club football at th ...

Ömer Asan Ömer Şükrü Asan (born May 28, 1961) is a Turkish Folkloristics, folklorist, photographer and writer. In 2002, he was charged with allegations that he violated Article 8 of Turkey's Anti-Terror Law by "propagandating separatism" for his book ...

Duygu Asena Duygu Asena (19 April 1946 – 30 July 2006) was a Turkish journalist, best-selling author and activist for women's rights. Biography She was born in Istanbul as the daughter of Nihal and Muhtar Asena. His father was in the sesame business. His g ...

Nihal Atsız Hüseyin Nihâl Atsız ( ota, حسين نيهال آتسز; January 12, 1905 – December 11, 1975) was a prominent Turkish ultranationalist writer, novelist, and poet. Nihâl Atsız self-identified as a racist, Pan-Turkist and Turanist. He w ...

Mustafa Balel Mustafa Balel (born 1 September 1945) is a Turkish short story writer and novelist. Balel was born in Sivas. After he graduated from Ankara Gazi University, Gazi Institute of Education, Department of French philology (1968), he did his master's at ...

Murat Bardakçı Murat Gökhan Bardakçı (born 25 December 1955) is a Turkish journalist working on Ottoman history and Turkish music history. He is also a columnist for ''Habertürk'' newspaper. Biography Bardakçı was born in 1955 in İstanbul. An economist ...

Can Bartu Can Bartu (31 January 1936 – 11 April 2019) was a Turkish basketball and football player of Circassian origin. He was the first Turkish footballer to play a final in Europe. His statue was erected in Istanbul. After retirement, he also worked ...

Enis Batur Ahmet Enis Batur (born 28 June 1952, Eskişehir, Turkey) is a Turkish poet, essayist, novelist, and editor. Education Born in Eskişehir on 28 June 1952, Enis Batur studied at St. Joseph High School Istanbul, METU-Sociology (Ankara), and S ...

Sevtap Baycılı Sevtap Baycılı is a Dutch writer of Turkish extraction. Born in Istanbul in 1968, she studied philosophy in Turkey, earning the nickname "Miss Wittgenstein". She settled in the Netherlands in 1991. Her first novel, ''De Markov-keten'' ("The ...

Ataol Behramoğlu Ataol Behramoğlu (born April 13, 1942) is a prominent Turkish poet, author, and Russian-into-Turkish literary translator. Life Ataol Behramoğlu was born on April 13, 1942 in Istanbul. He wrote poems in honour of his father Hikmet Bahramoglu ...

Turgut Berkes Turgut Berkes (1953 – 20 August 2018) was a Turkish rock musician, painter, and writer. He was born in 1953 in İzmir, Turkey. He was educated at the TED Ankara College and then at Bournemouth and Poole College of Art. He worked as a radio ...

İsmail Beşikçi İsmail Beşikçi (born 1939 in İskilip, Turkey) is a Turkish sociologist, philosopher, revolutionary, and writer. He is a PEN Honorary Member. He has served 17 years in prison on propaganda charges stemming from his writings about the Kurdish popu ...

Yahya Kemal Beyatlı Yahya Kemal Beyatlı, born ''Ahmet Âgâh'' (2 December 1884 – 1 November 1958), generally known by the pen name ''Yahya Kemal'', was a leading Turkish poet and author, as well as a politician and diplomat. Early life and education Yahya Kema ...

Üstün Bilgen-Reinart Üstün Bilgen-Reinart (born 1947 in Ankara, Turkey) is a Turkish-Canadian writer, journalist and broadcaster, author of three notable books, the first two on the social and environmental dislocations associated with development in Canada and we ...

Mehmed Emîn Bozarslan Mehmed Emîn Bozarslan (born 1935), is a Kurdish writer. He was born in Diyarbakır in south-eastern Turkey. He moved to Sweden as political asylum seeker in 1978, and he has been living in Uppsala Sweden since then. The most famous of his early wo ...

Bekir Coşkun Bekir Coşkun (1945 – 18 October 2020) was a Turkish journalist, writer and columnist for leading Turkish daily, ''Cumhuriyet''. He was a good friend of Emin Çölaşan, with whom he had worked in the newspaper ''Hürriyet'' before they were co ...

Necati Cumalı Necati Cumalı (13 January 1921 – 10 January 2001) was a Turkish writer of novels, short-stories, essays and poetry. He was born in Florina, Greece to a Turkish family and his family had settled in Urla near İzmir in the framework of the ...

Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel (18 May 1898 – 8 November 1973) was a leading Turkish poet, author and later politician. Biography Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel was born in Istanbul, Ottoman Empire, on 18 May 1898. His mother, Fatma Ruhiye, was the d ...

Emin Çölaşan Emin Çölaşan (born 14 March 1942) is a Turkish investigative journalist, whose daily column appeared in the mass-circulation newspaper, Istanbul-based ''Hürriyet'', for 22 years, from 1985 to 2007. Since 2007, he continues his column in ''S� ...

Can Dündar Can Dündar (, born 16 June 1961) is a Turkish journalist, columnist and documentarian. Editor-in-chief of center-left ''Cumhuriyet'' newspaper until August 2016, he was arrested in November 2015 after his newspaper published footage showing the ...

Bülent Ecevit Mustafa Bülent Ecevit (; 28 May 1925 – 5 November 2006) was a Turkish politician, statesman, poet, writer, scholar, and journalist, who served as the Prime Minister of Turkey four times between 1974 and 2002. He served as prime minister in ...

Bikem Ekberzade Bikem Ekberzade (born 1971, Istanbul) is a Turkish journalist, photojournalist and Documentary photography, documentary photographer. She is known for her work on Forced displacement, forced migration in the Balkans, Africa, Central Asia, and the M ...

Burak Eldem Burak Eldem (born 1961) is a Turkish writer/researcher, a former radio and TV programmer, web developer and journalist. He is the author of "2012: Rendez-vous With Marduk" (also known as ''2012: Appointment With Marduk'' - 2003), ''Fraternis: Lost ...

Haydar Ergülen Haydar Ergülen (born 14 October 1956, in Eskişehir, Turkey) is a Turkish poet., he graduated from the Sociology Department at Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi (Middle East Technical University) in Ankara. After graduation from the university, he ...

Azra Erhat '') , notable_works = Turkish translations of Homer's '' Iliad'' and '' Odyssey'' in collaboration with A. Kadir ( tr); Turkish translations of Hesiod's '' Theogony'' and '' Works and Days'' as well as works of Sophocles, Aristophanes, Plato, ...

Fahir Ersin Fahir Ersin (February 22, 1929 – April 1, 1988) was a Turkish journalist, intellectual and a proponent of rights of Turkish Migrants in Germany and of Turkish-German relations. He was born in Istanbul, Turkey, as son of Ayshe Sultan from the de ...

Mehmet Akif Ersoy Mehmet Akif Ersoy (20 December 1873 – 27 December 1936) was a Turkish pan-Islamist poet, writer, academic, politician, and the author of the Turkish National Anthem. Widely regarded as one of the premiere literary minds of his time, Ersoy i ...

İclal Ersin İclal Ersin Karakaptan (born in 1915) was the first female Turkish economist. She was also the first female branch manager of a bank in Turkey. Biography İclal Ersin was born to Ali Rıza Pasha, an Ottoman cartographer, in 1915. In 1928, sh ...

Sabahattin Eyüboğlu Sabahattin Eyüboğlu (1908 – January 13, 1973) was a Turkish writer, essayist, translator and film producer. Biography Sabahatttin Eyüboğlu was born in 1908 on the Black Sea coast town of Akçaabat near Trabzon. His father Mehmet Rah ...

Üzeyir Garih Üzeyir Garih (1929 – August 25, 2001) was a Turkish engineer, businessman, writer and investor. Early years Üzeyir Garih was born in İstanbul on 28 June 1929. He graduated from İstanbul Technical University ranking in the Dean's Honors list ...

Reşat Nuri Güntekin Reşat Nuri Güntekin () (25 November 1889 – 7 December 1956) was a Turkish novelist, storywriter, and playwright. His best known novel, '' Çalıkuşu'' ("The Wren", 1922) is about the destiny of a young Turkish female teacher in Anatolia. Th ...

Reşit Süreyya Gürsey Reşit Süreyya Gürsey (1889–1962) was a Turkish intellectual who was a medical doctor, a radiology expert, a physicist and a poet. Life He was born to Zekiye in Bor of Niğde Province during the Ottoman Empire era. His father Hasan Hüs ...

Ahmet Haşim Ahmet Haşim (also written as Ahmed Hâşim; 1884? – 4 June 1933) was an influential Turkish poet of the early 20th century. Biography Ahmed Hâşim was born in Baghdad Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Ira ...

Abdülhak Şinasi Hisar Abdülhak Şinasi Hisar (March 14, 1887 in Istanbul – May 3, 1963 in Istanbul) was a Turkish writer. He spent his childhood in Rumeli Hisarı and studied at the Galatasaray High School and later political sciences in Paris. Back to Ottoman ...

Rıfat Ilgaz Rıfat Ilgaz (7 May 1911 – 7 July 1993) was a Turkish teacher, writer and poet. Biography He was born in Cide, in the Kastamonu Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire (present-day Turkey). Ilgaz was one of Turkey’s best-known and most prolific poets ...

Atilla İlhan Attila (, ; ), frequently called Attila the Hun, was the ruler of the Huns from 434 until his death in March 453. He was also the leader of a tribal empire consisting of Huns, Ostrogoths, Alans, and Bulgars, among others, in Central and ...

Sabit Ince Sabit is an Arabic masculine given name, meaning "firmly in place”, “stable”, “unshakable”, "dhilaman", from Thabit (ثابت). Notable people with the name include: * Zaid Bin Sabit (610-660), one of the closest companions of Muhammad * ...

Abdi İpekçi Abdi İpekçi (9 August 1929 – 1 February 1979) was a Turkish journalist, intellectual and an activist for human rights. He was murdered while editor-in-chief of one of the main Turkish daily newspapers '' Milliyet'' which then had a cent ...

İsmail Cem İpekçi Ishmael ''Ismaḗl''; Classical/Qur'anic Arabic: إِسْمَٰعِيْل; Modern Standard Arabic: إِسْمَاعِيْل ''ʾIsmāʿīl''; la, Ismael was the first son of Abraham, the common patriarch of the Abrahamic religions; and is cons ...

Cevat Şakir Kabaağaçlı Cevat Şakir Kabaağaçlı (17 April 1890 – 13 October 1973; born Musa Cevat Şakir; pen-name "The Fisherman of Halicarnassus", tr, Halikarnas Balıkçısı) was a Cretan Turkish writer of novels, short-stories and essays, as well as a ke ...

Sabri Kalic Sabri ( ar, صبري) is a male given name of Arabic origin, it may refer to: Given name * Sabri Çakır (born 1955), Turkish poet * Sabri Gurses (born 1972), Turkish writer * Sabri Jiryis (born 1938), Arab-Israeli writer * Sabri Kalic (born 19 ...

Orhan Veli Kanık Orhan Veli Kanık or Orhan Veli (14 April 1914 – 14 November 1950) was a Turkish poet. Kanık is one of the founders of the Garip Movement together with Oktay Rıfat and Melih Cevdet. Aiming to fundamentally transform traditional form ...

Ceyhun Atuf Kansu Ceyhun Atuf Kansu (1919-1978) was a Turkish pediatrician, author and poet. Life Ceyhun Atuf was born to Nafi and Müfdalein Istanbul, Ottoman Empire on 7 December 1919. After the death of his mother his father moved to Ankara, the capital of t ...

Orhan Karaveli Orhan Karaveli (25 February 1930 – 24 March 2023) was a Turkish journalist and writer. Personal life Orhan Karaveli's family was a member of the Karaevli Turkmen tribe. Their surname reflects their tribe name with a transposition of two lette ...

Yaşar Kemal Yaşar Kemal (born Kemal Sadık Gökçeli; 6 October 1923 – 28 February 2015) was a Turkish writer and human rights activist and one of Turkey's leading writers. He received 38 awards during his lifetime and had been a candidate for the Nobe ...

Coşkun Kırca Coşkun Kırca (27 March 1927 in Istanbul – 24 February 2005 in Istanbul) was a Turkish diplomat, journalist and politician. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey in 1995. He was at first a member of the Republican People's Party ( ...

Ahmet Köklügiller Ahmet Köklügiller (born 1936) is a Turkish contemporary writer and influential educationist. Early life He was born in Adana, Turkey. He worked in Tarsus as a teacher. Career Later he lectured in Istanbul, and since 1957 he has been wri ...

Onat Kutlar Onat Kutlar (25 January 1936 – 11 January 1995) was a prominent Turkish writer and poet, founder of the Turkish Sinematek and cofounder of the Istanbul International Film Festival. Biography Onat Kutlar was born in Alanya, Turkey, on 25 J ...

Nasuh Mahruki Ali Nasuh Mahruki (born 21 May 1968) is a professional mountain climber, writer, photographer and documentary film producer. An all-round outdoor sportsman, he climbed to the summit of Mount Everest and was the first ever Turkish person to cli ...

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Behçet Necatigil Behçet Necatigil (16 April 1916 – 13 December 1979) was a leading Turkish author, poet and translator. Biography Behçet was born in Istanbul, Ottoman Empire, in 1916. He graduated from the Teachers' High School ( tr, İstanbul Yüksek ...

Aziz Nesin Aziz Nesin (; born Mehmet Nusret, 20 December 1915 – 6 July 1995) was a Turkish writer, humorist and the author of more than 100 books. Born in a time when Turks did not have official surnames, he had to adopt one after the Surname Law of ...

Sevin Okyay Sevin Okyay (Istanbul, 1942) is a Turkish literary critic, journalist, author, regular columnist and a prolific translator. Sevin had been a radio host and a teacher as well. Biography She is a graduate of the Arnavutköy American Girl's (High) ...

Cumhur Oranci Rustu Cumhur Oranci (born October 28, 1960 in Istanbul) is a Turkish writer and literary translator. He left Turkey before the coup d'état of 12 September 1980 and spent some time in Europe working as journalist. He became a radio operator on ...

Irfan Orga İrfan Orga (October 31, 1908 – November 29, 1970) was a Turkish fighter pilot, staff officer, and author, writing in English. He published books on many areas of Turkish life, cookery, and history, as well as a life of Atatürk, and a univer ...

Altan Öymen Mehmet Altan Öymen (born 20 June 1932) is a Turkish journalist, author and former politician. Biography Öymen graduated from the School of Political Science of Ankara University. He began his journalist career already in 1950 at age of 18, a ...

Ertuğrul Özkök Ertuğrul Özkök (born 8 April 1947) is a Turkish journalist and a daily columnist. Between 1990 and 2010, he was the editor-in-chief for ''Hürriyet'', a daily newspaper published in Turkish in Turkey and some European countries. Özkök is ...

Orhan Pamuk Ferit Orhan Pamuk (born 7 June 1952) is a Turkish novelist, screenwriter, academic, and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. One of Turkey's most prominent novelists, his work has sold over thirteen million books in sixty-three lan ...

Lokman Polat Lokman Polat (born 1956 in Lice, Diyarbakır Province) is a Swedish writer of Kurdish origin. Before 1980, he was involved in publishing political commentaries and news. He has been arrested several times due to his activities in the field of Ku ...

Peyami Safa Peyami Safa (April 2, 1899 – June 15, 1961) was a Turkish journalist, columnist and novelist. He came to the fore in the Turkish literature of the Republican era with his psychological works such as ''Dokuzuncu Hariciye Koğuşu'' (Ninth Ex ...

Nejdet Sançar Ahmet Nejdet Sançar (May 1, 1910 – February 22, 1975) was a Turkish literature teacher, who became one of the prominent personalities of the Pan-Turkist ideology. He was the younger brother of another notable Turkish nationalist, Nihâl Atsı ...

Aydilge Aydilge Sarp (born June 25, 1979) is a Turkish writer, poet and singer-songwriter. Biography Aydilge Sarp was born in 1979 in Kütahya, Turkey. Her Circassians, Circassian mother, Faika Özer writes poetry and novels, with a release of more than ...

Cemal Süreya Cemâl Süreya (born Cemâlettin Seber; 1931 – 9 January 1990) was a Turkish poet and writer of Kurdish–Zaza descent. Biography Süreya and his family were deported to Bilecik, a city in the Marmara Region of Turkey after the Dersim ...

Erman Şener Erman Şener (9 August 1942 in Afyon, Turkey – 29 March 2002 in Istanbul) was a Turkish film critic, screenwriter, author, columnist, TV host and producer. Background Şener was born in Afyon, Turkey. After he graduated from primary school hi ...

Ferhan Şensoy Osman Ferhan Şensoy (26 February 1951 – 31 August 2021) was a Turkish actor, playwright and director. Private life Şensoy was born in Çarşamba district of Samsun Province in northern Turkey on 26 February 1951. After attending Galatasaray ...

Kemal Tahir Kemal Tahir (March 13, 1910 – April 21, 1973) was a prominent Turkish novelist and intellectual. Tahir spent 13 years of his life imprisoned for political reasons and wrote some of his most important novels during this time. His most importan ...

Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar (23 June 1901 – 24 January 1962) was a Turkish poet, novelist, literary scholar and essayist, widely regarded as one of the most important representatives of modernism in Turkish literature. In addition to his literary and ...

Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı (born Hüseyin Cahit; October 4, 1910 – October 13, 1956) was a Turkish poet and author. Biography Tarancı belonged to a well known clan family of Diyarbekir (present day: Diyarbakır) like his father Pirinçç ...

Latife Tekin Latife Tekin (born 1957) is one of the most influential Turkish female authors. Biography She was born in 1957 in the village of Karacahevenk, in the Bünyan district of Kayseri. She came to Istanbul with her family in 1966 when she was 9 year ...

Metin Toker Metin Toker (1924 – 18 July 2002) was a Turkish journalist and writer. Life He was born in Istanbul. After finishing Galatasaray High School, he studied French philology at Istanbul University graduating in 1948. He then went to France to stud ...

Mahmut Tolon Dr. Tolon is a farmer, physician and demographer. He was born on 22 July 1950 in Istanbul. He is the second son of Dr. Nurullah Ihsan Tolon and Mihrizafer Tolon (Kostem). He attended Ankara Koleji 1955-1964 and Nicolaus Cusanus Gymnasium in Bad G ...

Said Nursî Said Nursi ( ota, سعيد نورسی, ku, Seîdê Nursî ,سەعید نوورسی‎; 1877 – 23 March 1960), also spelled Said-i Nursî or Said-i Kurdî, and commonly known with the honorifics Bediüzzaman (meaning "wonder of the age") an ...

Hasan Ali Toptaş Hasan Ali Toptaş (born 15 October 1958) is a prominent Turkish novelist and short story writer. His first short story book ''Bir Gülüşün Kimliği'' (The Identity of A Laugh) was published in 1987. An important Turkish scholar, Yıldız Ecevi ...

Fatma Aliye Topuz Fatma Aliye Topuz (9 October 1862 – 13 July 1936), often known simply as Fatma Aliye or Fatma Aliye Hanım, was a Turkish novelist, columnist, essayist, women's rights activist and humanitarian. Although there was an earlier published nov ...

Hıfzı Topuz Hıfzı Topuz (born 25 January 1923) is a Turkish journalist, travel writer and novelist. He also served as a lecturer on journalism at several universities. Early life Hıfzı Topuz was born 1923 in Istanbul. After finishing his secondary educa ...

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Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil Halit is the Turkish spelling of the Arabic masculine given name Khalid (Arabic: خَالِد ''khālid'') which means "eternal, everlasting, immortal". People with the name include: Given name * Halit Akçatepe (1938–2017), Turkish actor * ...

Recep Uslu Recep Uslu is a Turkish writer and researcher Research is " creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge". It involves the collection, organization and analysis of evidence to increase understanding of a top ...

Yekta Uzunoglu Yekta is originally a Persian female given name meaning 'the only one'. It is also used in Turkish as a given name (mostly) for males. People named Yekta include: Given name * Yekta Jamali (born 2004), Iranian weightlifter * Yekta Kurtuluş (bor ...

Bahriye Üçok Bahriye Üçok (1919 – October 6, 1990) was a Turkish people, Turkish academic of theology, left-wing politician, writer, columnist, and women's rights activist whose assassination in 1990 remains unresolved. Early life and education Born in Tr ...

Ümit Ünal Ümit Ünal (born 14 April 1965 in Tire, İzmir), is a film director, screenwriter and author. He is the scriptwriter for eight Turkish feature films including ''Teyzem (My Aunt)'' (1986), ''Hayallerim, Askim ve Sen (My Dreams, My Love and You)'' ...

Ahmet Vardar Ahmet Vardar (1937 – 25 February 2010) was a notable Turkish journalist and television presenter. Biography Vardar was born 1937 in Istanbul. He worked for many newspapers, the longest for the daily ''Sabah''. He served for many years as the ...

Mehmet Emin Yurdakul Mehmet Emin Yurdakul (13 May 1869 – 14 January 1944) was a Turkish nationalist writer, poet and politician. Being an ideologue of Pan-Turkism, his writings and poems had a major impact on defining the term ''vatan'' (Fatherland). Early life a ...

Halide Nusret Zorlutuna Halide Nusret Zorlutuna (1901 – 10 June 1984) was a Turkish poet and novelist. Biography Zorlutuna was born in Istanbul, Ottoman Empire as the daughter of Mehmet Selim Bey, a journalist and political prisoner. Brought up in exile with her f ...

Zafer Hanım Zafer Hanım was the first Turkish novelist, writing one novel. Her birth and death dates are unknown. According to contemporaneous writer Mehmet Zihni, she was a member of Fuat Pasha's family. Her husband was Kabuli Pasha, who died before Zafe ...

Vecihi Hürkuş Vecihi Hürkuş (6 January 1896 – 16 July 1969) was a Turkish fighter pilot, aviation engineer and aviation pioneer. He built Turkey's first aircraft, the Vecihi K-VI, and founded the first civil flight school of the nation. Born in Istanb ...

Irfan Orga İrfan Orga (October 31, 1908 – November 29, 1970) was a Turkish fighter pilot, staff officer, and author, writing in English. He published books on many areas of Turkish life, cookery, and history, as well as a life of Atatürk, and a univer ...

Ali İsmet Öztürk Ali İsmet Öztürk (born 23 May 1964) is a Turkish professional display pilot, an aerobatic aircraft designer and an aviation businessman. He is the first civilian to be recognised as a professional aerobatic pilot in the country. He flies in ...

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Azra Akın Azra Akın (born 8 December 1981) is a Turkish-Dutch actress, dancer, model and beauty queen who was crowned Miss World 2002 in London on December 7, 2002. Biography Akın was born in Almelo, Netherlands, to Turkish parents. Her father (Nazı ...

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Günseli Başar Günseli Başar (22 January 1932 – 20 April 2013) was a Turkish beauty contestant and columnist who was crowned Miss Turkey 1951 and Miss Europe 1952. Biography Başar was born on February 22, 1932, to an officer's family in İstanbul, w ...

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Keriman Halis Ece Keriman Halis Ece (February 16, 1913 – January 28, 2012) was a Turkish beauty pageant titleholder, pianist, and fashion model who won the Miss Turkey 1932 title. She was also crowned International Pageant of Pulchritude, Miss Universe 1932 ...

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Neşe Erberk Neşe Erberk (born October 14, 1964) is a Turkish businesswoman, a former fashion model, beauty contestant and Miss Europe 1984. Biography She was born on October 14, 1964, in Istanbul, Turkey. She completed her education at Robert College an ...

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Tuğçe Kazaz Tuğçe Kazaz (born 26 August 1982) is a Turkish model, actress and Miss Turkey 2001. Biography Kazaz was born in Edremit, Balıkesir Province. She was educated in international relations at the Yeditepe University in Istanbul. She acted ...

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Nazlı Deniz Kuruoğlu Nazlı Deniz Kuruoğlu (born c. 1960) is a Turkish ballet dancer and a former beauty contestant and Miss Europe 1982. Biography She was educated in ballet dancing at the Conservatory of Mimar Sinan University in Istanbul, Turkey. She danced in ...

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Arzum Onan Arzum Onan (born October 31, 1973) is a Turkish actress, former model and Miss Europe 1993. Biography She was born on October 31, 1973, in Ankara, Turkey. Her family is of Circassian descent. After the primary school in Ankara, her family moved ...

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Leyla Lydia Tuğutlu Leyla Lydia Tuğutlu (born 29 October 1989) is a Turkish actress, singer, model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Turkey, Miss Turkey 2008. She represented Turkey at the Miss World 2008 pageant. Early life Leyla Lydia Tuğutl ...

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Filiz Vural Filiz Vural (born 1953) is a former Turkish beauty contestant and Miss Europe 1971. She participated at a beauty pageant organized by the newspaper ''Hürriyet ''Hürriyet'' (, ''Liberty'') is one of the major Turkish newspapers, founded in 1 ...

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İshak Alaton İshak Alaton (2 September 1927 – 11 September 2016) was a Turkish businessman and investor. He is a founding partner of the Alarko group of companies. Biography İshak Alaton was born in Istanbul in 1927. He completed his high school educatio ...

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Albert Jean Amateau Albert Jean Amateau (April 20, 1889 – February 9, 1996) was a Turkish rabbi, businessman, lawyer, social activist, and denier of the Armenian genocide. Early years Born a Sephardic Jew in Milas, Ottoman Empire (now Turkey), Amateau atten ...

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Feyyaz Berker Feyyaz Berker (October 7, 1925 – August 22, 2017) was a Turkish businessmanTekfen Holding. He was one of the three co-founders and owners of the Tekfen Holding. Biography Born on October 7, 1925, in Mersin, Turkey, Feeyaz was the son of Muht ...

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Serdar Bilgili Serdar Bilgili (born 1963) is a businessman who served as the president of the Istanbul-based football club Beşiktaş J.K. Beşiktaş Jimnastik Kulübü (), also known simply as Beşiktaş (), is a Turkish sports club founded in 1903 that ...

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Özhan Canaydın Özhan Canaydın (23 January 1943 – 22 March 2010) was a businessman, basketballer and former chairman of the Turkish sports club Galatasaray. Biography Basketball career Canaydın began to play professional basketball in 1958. In 1957, he be ...

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Aydın Doğan Aydın Doğan (born 15 April 1936) is a Turkish business magnate and investor. He is the founder of Doğan Holding, one of Turkey's largest conglomerates. Biography Born in 1936 as a member of a well-known family in Kelkit. Doğan went to el ...

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Neşe Erberk Neşe Erberk (born October 14, 1964) is a Turkish businesswoman, a former fashion model, beauty contestant and Miss Europe 1984. Biography She was born on October 14, 1964, in Istanbul, Turkey. She completed her education at Robert College an ...

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Ahmet Ertegun Ahmet Ertegun (, Turkish spelling: Ahmet Ertegün; ; – December 14, 2006) was a Turkish-American businessman, songwriter, record executive and philanthropist. Ertegun was the co-founder and president of Atlantic Records. He discovered and ch ...

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Üzeyir Garih Üzeyir Garih (1929 – August 25, 2001) was a Turkish engineer, businessman, writer and investor. Early years Üzeyir Garih was born in İstanbul on 28 June 1929. He graduated from İstanbul Technical University ranking in the Dean's Honors list ...

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Sadi Gülçelik Sadi Gülçelik (22 October 1930–19 August 1980) was a Turkish basketball player, civil engineer and entrepreneur. SadiGülçelik was born in Istanbul, Turkey on 22 October 1930. He played for Galatasaray Volleyball and Galatasaray Baske ...

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Vehbi Koç Ahmet Vehbi Koç (20 July 1901 – 25 February 1996) was a Turkish entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded the Koç Group, one of Turkey’s largest groups of companies. During his lifetime he came to be one of Turkey's wealthiest citiz ...

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Koç family The Koç family is a Turkish family of business people founded by Vehbi Koç, one of the wealthiest self-made people in Turkey. His grandsons, the third generation of the Koç family, today run Turkey's largest group of companies, Koç Holding, ...

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Asil Nadir Asil Nadir (born 1 May 1941) is a British Turkish Cypriot businessman, who was chief executive of Polly Peck, which he took over as a small textile company, growing it during the 1980s to become one of the United Kingdom's top 100 FTSE-listed co ...

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Sudi Özkan Sudi Özkan is a Turkish businessman known for his interests in the hotel and casino industry. He is alleged to be a billionaire. He had major operations in Turkey in the 1990s before casinos were banned there in 1998, and in 1996 was considered ...

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Hüsnü Özyeğin Hüsnü Özyeğin (born 1944) is a Turkish billionaire. He founded Finansbank in 1987 and later sold the Turkish division of the bank. Nowadays, his financial investments are managed under Fiba Holding while non-financial investments are managed ...

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Ali Sabancı Ali İsmail Sabancı (May 5, 1969; Adana) is a Turkish businessperson and a third generation member of thSabancıFamily. He is the Chairperson of 'Esas Holding Education life Ali Sabancı earned his M.B.A. degree with a major in International ...

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Güler Sabancı Güler Sabancı (born 1955) is a Turkish businesswoman, a third-generation female member of the Sabancı family, and the chairperson of the family-controlled Sabancı Holding, the second-largest industrial and financial conglomerate in Turkey. A ...

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Hacı Sabancı Hacı Sabancı (25 June 1935 – 26 June 1998) was a Turkish businessman and philanthropist, and a member of the second generation of the renowned Sabancı family. He was born in the Akçakaya village of Kayseri Province as the third son o ...

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Hacı Ömer Sabancı Hacı Ömer Sabancı (1 January 1906 – 2 February 1966) was a Turkish entrepreneur, who founded a number of companies, which later formed the second largest industrial and financial conglomerate of Turkey, the Sabancı Holding. He initiat ...

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İhsan Sabancı İhsan Sabancı (1931–1979) was a Turkish businessman and a second-generation member of the Sabancı family. He was born in 1931 in the village of Akçakaya village in Kayseri Province as the first of six sons of Hacı Ömer Sabancı and ...

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Özdemir Sabancı Özdemir Sabancı (May 15, 1941 – January 9, 1996) was a Turkish businessman and a second generation member of the Sabancı family. Biography He was born in Adana, Turkey. After finishing the high school at the Tarsus American College in Ta ...

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Sakıp Sabancı Sakıp Sabancı (7 April 1933 – 10 April 2004) was a Turkish business tycoon and philanthropist. Biography He was the second son of a cotton trader and worked in his father's business without completing high school. He was the head of Turkey' ...

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Şevket Sabancı Şevket Sabancı (1936 – 22 July 2021) was a Turkish billionaire businessman and philanthropist, and a second-generation member of the Sabancı family. Biography He was born 1936 in Kayseri, Turkey, as the fourth son of Hacı Ömer Sabancı, ...

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Kahraman Sadıkoğlu Kahraman Sadıkoğlu is a Turkish businessman. He owns the Istanbul-based Sadikoglu Group. He paid for the restoration of one of the largest yachts in the world, the '' Savarona''. She was purchased by the Turkish government in 1938 for use as a ...

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Ferit Şahenk Ferit Şahenk (, born 1964) is the Chairman of Turkey's Doğuş Group and one of the richest people in Turkey. Background Şahenk graduated from The American School in Switzerland (TASIS) and earned his B.A. from Boston College with a degree in ...

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Alp Yalman Alp Yalman (born 1 January 1940) is a Turkish businessman and former chairman of the Turkish sports club Galatasaray. Yalman was born in Istanbul. After graduating from Robert College in Turkey, he studied Social and Political Science in the U ...

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Hacı Mehmet Zorlu Hacı Mehmet Zorlu (1919 in Babadağ, Denizli – May 7, 2005 in Istanbul) was the founder of Zorlu Holding, one of the biggest group of companies in Turkey. References 1919 births 2005 deaths People from Babadağ, Denizli 20th-ce ...

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Müfide İlhan Müfide İlhan (19 February 1911 – 2 February 1996) was a mayor of Mersin, Turkey in the early 1950s. She is known as being the first woman mayor in Turkey. Early life Müfide İlhan was born on 19 February 1911 in İstanbul.Kudret Ünal:''M� ...

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Nevit Kodallı Nevit Kodallı (12 December 1924, Mersin – 1 September 2009, Mersin) was a Turkish composer of western-influenced classical music including operas and ballets. In 1948 he travelled to Paris where he studied with Arthur Honegger and Nadia Boul ...

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Macit Özcan Macit Özcan, (born 1954 in Karataş, Adana Province, Turkey) is a Turkish politician of the Republican People's Party (CHP) and a former mayor of Mersin. After his secondary education in Adana, he graduated in civil engineering from Çukurova ...

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Nevin Yanıt Nevin Yanıt (born February 16, 1986) is a Turkish former sprinter specializing in high hurdling. On 29 August 2013, Yanit was banned from athletic competition for two years following a failed doping test in February 2013. After IAAF appealed ...

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Atıf Yılmaz Atıf Yılmaz Batıbeki (9 December 1925 – 5 May 2006) was a renowned Turkish film director, screenwriter, and film producer. He was very much a legend in the film industry of Turkey with 119 movies directed. He also wrote 53 screenplays an ...

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Sinan Erbil Sinan Erbil (born 11 January 1965) is an Iraqi Turkmen singer from Erbil. His latest album is the politally charged "Neden Ağlar Kerkük'üm?", featuring Nuray Hafiftas along with a host of world class musicians ıncludıng Erdinç Şenyayla ...

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John Eren John Hamdi Eren (born 15 March 1964) is an Australian politician. He has been a Labor Party member of the Parliament of Victoria since 2002, representing Geelong Province in the Legislative Council from 2002 to 2006, and Lara in the Legis ...

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Didem Erol Didem Erol or Serah Henesey also known as Dana Flynn is an Australian-born Turkish American actress, model, and TV host. She was born in Sydney to Turkish parents and lives in Los Angeles, California. Amidst media speculation, Erol confirme ...

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Ersan Gülüm Ersan Adem Gülüm (; born 17 May 1987) is a Turkish professional Association football, footballer who plays as a Defender (association football), centre back for Preston Lions FC, Preston Lions in the NPL Victoria 3. Born in Australia, Gülüm p ...

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John Ilhan John Ilhan (born Mustafa İlhan; 23 January 1965 – 23 October 2007) was a Turkish Australian businessman. He was the founder of Crazy John's mobile phone retail chain and, in 2003, was the richest Australian under 40 years of age. Early life ...

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Selin Kuralay Selin Kuralay (born 25 January 1985 in Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian soccer player of Turkish ancestry. She plays at national league level for Australian W-League team Melbourne Victory. Club career Junior football Kuralay took up ...

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Levent Osman Levent Osman (born 8 March 1977, in Melbourne) is an Australian former association football player of Turkish Cypriot descent. He played as a defender. He has previously played for Trabzonspor in Turkey, FCU Politehnica Timişoara in Romania ...

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Matthew Osman Matthew James Osman (born 29 July 1983) is an Australian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Club career On 12 October 2007, Osman was injured during training and as a result he sat out the remainder of the 2007–08 A-L ...

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Tolgay Özbey Tolgay Özbey (born 12 April 1986) is an Australian professional soccer player, who last played for Rockdale City Suns in the National Premier Leagues NSW as a striker. Biography Australian Clubs Early in his career, Özbey was recognized f ...

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Sedat Sir Sedat Sir (born 6 March 1975) is a Turkish-Australian former Australian Rules footballer who played for the Western Bulldogs in the Australian Football League (AFL). Sedat, known as a solid defender, played 24 games at senior level between 199 ...

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Adem Somyurek Adem Kubilay Somyurek (born 25 September 1967 in Izmir, Turkey) is an Australian politician. He has served as a member of the Victorian Legislative Council representing South Eastern Metropolitan Region since 2002. Somyurek was a member o ...

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Nazlı Süleyman Natalie Suleyman (born Nazlı Süleyman on 6 June 1974) is an Australian politician, representing the safe seat electorate of St Albans in the Victorian Legislative Assembly. She is a member of the Australian Labor Party. She is the first per ...

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Ufuk Talay Ufuk Talay (born 26 March 1976) is an Australian football coach and former player. Talay was suited to play in central midfield and was known for his good distribution and on-field vision. He is the current manager of Wellington Phoenix. Club ...

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Deniz Tek Deniz Tek (born November 10, 1952) is a Turkish-American singer, guitarist and songwriter and a founding member of Australian rock group Radio Birdman. He has played in many of the underground rock bands of the 1970s including Australian bands The ...

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Ismail Tosun Ismail Tosun (born 1975 in Bozcaada, Turkey) is an acclaimed Turkish Australian Celebrity chef who was voted the best new talent in Australia. Tosun is the founder of Eminem, a Turkish restaurant in Nedlands which earned the title of best new ...

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Ahmet Ağaoğlu Ahmet Ağaoğlu, also known as Ahmet Bey Ağaoğlu ( az, Əhməd bəy Ağaoğlu; December 1869 – 19 May 1939), was a prominent Azerbaijani and naturalized Turkish politician, publicist and journalist. He was one of the founders of Pan-Turkis ...

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Süreyya Ağaoğlu Süreyya Ağaoğlu (1903, Shusha, Azerbaijan – 29 December 1989, Istanbul) was a Turkish- Azerbaijani writer, jurist, and the first female lawyer in Turkish history.Ghada Talhami. Historical Dictionary of Women in the Middle East and North ...

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Rasim Başak Rasim Başak (born Ruslan Avleev on 17 February 1980) is a retired Azerbaijani-Turkey, Turkish professional basketball player. The power forward is 2.02 m tall and 100 kg weight and wears numbers 8. He has Russian mother and Azerbaijan, Azer ...

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Nuri Berköz M. Nuri Berköz (1889–1975) ''(Mehemmed Hacı İlyas Oğlu Sarıkerimli)'' was an Ottoman/ Turkish Army soldier. He was born in Shaki, Azerbaijan in 1889. After completing his primary education in the local Russian-Tatar School, (educationa ...

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Servet Çetin Servet Çetin (born 17 March 1981) is a Turkish Association football, footballer who last played for Mersin Idmanyurdu in the Süper Lig. He received the nickname ''Ayıboğan'' which literally means; ''a man who could choke a bear'', due to his ...

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Haydar Hatemi Haydar Hatemi (born March 3, 1945 in Hadishahr) is an Iranian artist whose work is based on blends of classical oriental styles such as miniature and tazhib, with some modern elements. His early studies in art started at Tabriz's Art Academy aft ...

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Cem Karaca Muhtar Cem Karaca (5 April 1945 – 8 February 2004) was a prominent Turkish rock musician and one of the most important figures in the Anatolian rock movement. He was a graduate of Robert College. He worked with various Turkish rock bands such ...

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Sinan Şamil Sam Sinan Şamil Sam (23 June 1974 – 30 October 2015) was a Turkish heavyweight professional boxer( Azerbaijani origin). As a professional boxer, Sam won the EBU,WBC international and WBC Mediterranean titles in the heavyweight division. According ...

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Tamer Karadağlı Tamer Karadağlı (born 24 May 1967) is a Turkish actor. Biography Tamer Karadağlı's family was of Azerbaijanis origin and moved to America a short time after he was born. They returned to Turkey just as he began primary school there. He stud ...

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Cem Adrian Cem Filiz (born 30 November 1980), better known by his stage name Cem Adrian, is a Turkish musician of Bosniak origin, singer-songwriter and record producer. Early life His father was a merchant, while his mother was a housewife. Adrian was born ...

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Ekrem Akurgal Ekrem Akurgal (March 30, 1911 – November 1, 2002) was a Turkish archaeologist. During a career that spanned more than fifty years, he conducted definitive research in several sites along the western coast of Anatolia such as Phokaia (Foça) ...

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Nedim Dal Nedim Dal (born Edin Delić; on 3 May 1975) is a retired Turkish basketball player. He stands 2.14 m tall and played as a center Center or centre may refer to: Mathematics *Center (geometry), the middle of an object * Center (algebra), used ...

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Ebru Destan Ebru Destan (born 24 September 1977) is a Turkish singer, actress, and model. Biography Ebru is one of the most famous podium models in Turkey. She has also acted in many films like ''Abuzer Kadayıf'', ''Yeni Hayat'', ''Zor Hedef'', ''Can Ayş ...

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Semih Erden Semih Erden (born July 28, 1986) is a Turkish professional basketball player for Türk Telekom of the Basketbol Süper Ligi (BSL). Standing at , he plays at the center position. Professional career Early years Erden played with Darüşşafaka in ...

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Şebnem Ferah Şebnem Ferah (born 12 April 1972) is a Turkish singer, songwriter, composer, and guitarist. She was the lead vocalist of the all-female hard rock band Volvox until 1994, after which she went on to pursue an illustrious solo career. Her music s ...

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Almir Gegić Almir Gegić (; born 30 October 1979) is a Serbian-Turkish former footballer. He holds Serbian and Turkish passports. Career He debuted for the first team of FK Novi Pazar when he was 17, by the time the team was led by Milonja Kaličanin. In ...

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Hakan Köseoğlu Hakan Köseoğlu (born December 12, 1981 in İstanbul, Turkey) is a Turkish former professional basketball player. He played the point guard The point guard (PG), also called the one or the point, is one of the five positions in a regulati ...

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Ayşe Kulin Ayşe Kulin (born 26 August 1941) is a Turkish short story writer, screenwriter and novelist. Biography Kulin was born in Istanbul in 1941. Her father, Muhittin Kulin, of Bosniak origin, was one of the first civil engineers in Istanbul who fou ...

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Mehmet Okur Mehmet Murat Okur (born 26 May 1979) is a Turkish former professional basketball player. Listed at , he played as a power forward and center. Okur is known for his three-point shooting and ability to space the floor. In his seven seasons wit ...

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Ajda Pekkan Ayşe Ajda Pekkan (; born 12 February 1946) is a Turkish singer. She is known by the title "superstar" in the Turkish media. Pekkan became a prominent figure of Turkish pop music with her songs, in which she tried to create a strong female figure. ...

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Saffet Sancaklı Saffet Sancaklı ( sr-Cyrl, Сафет Санџакли, Safet Sandžakli; born 27 February 1966) is a Turkish former international footballer and current politician. He is a deputy of Nationalist Movement Party, representing city of Kocaeli ...

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Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ (; born 27 October 1983) is a Turkish actor, model, and former basketball player. He is one of the highest-paid actors in Turkey and has won many awards, including three Golden Butterfly Awards and a Yeşilçam Cinema Award ...

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Mirsad Türkcan Mirsad Türkcan (born Mirsad Jahović, sr-cyr, Мирсад Јаховић; on June 7, 1976) is a Turkish former professional basketball player of Bosniak origin. Standing at a height of , he played at the power forward position. A three-time Al ...

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Luis Cetin Luis Gustavo Cetin or simply Luis Cetin (born August 5, 1987 in Limeira), is a goalkeeper who is of Turkish descent. He currently plays for Boa Kwon Bo-ah (; born November 5, 1986), known professionally as BoA, is a South Korean singer, son ...

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Üstün Bilgen-Reinart Üstün Bilgen-Reinart (born 1947 in Ankara, Turkey) is a Turkish-Canadian writer, journalist and broadcaster, author of three notable books, the first two on the social and environmental dislocations associated with development in Canada and we ...

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Selim Deringil Selim M. Deringil (born Ottawa, 19 August 1951) is a Turkish academic, and professor of history at Boğaziçi University and at the Lebanese American University. Career Deringil earned his doctorate from the University of East Anglia in 1979, a ...

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Orhan Demir Orhan Demir (; born 1954 in Istanbul, Turkey) is a Canadian jazz guitarist. His first release in 1986 "The way I see You" second release is in 1987 "North West", third album was in 1989 "Windmill" in 1990 solo acoustic album "Sultan of Strings", ...

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Enis Esmer Ennis Esmer (born December 29, 1978) is a Turkish-Canadian actor, comedian, voice actor, writer, producer and presenter. He is best known for his roles as Osman 'Oz' Bey in ''The Listener'', Kurtis 'Maz' Mazhari in ''Private Eyes'', Nash in '' ...

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Tuğba Karademir Tuğba Karademir (born on 17 March 1985) is a Turkish former competitive figure skater. She won silver medals at the 2008 International Challenge Cup and 2008 Ondrej Nepela Memorial. She qualified to the free skate at two Winter Olympics ( 2006 ...

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Nil Köksal Nil Köksal is a Turkish-born Canadian television and radio journalist, most recently the weekday anchor of '' World Report'' on CBC Radio One. In July 2022, she was announced as the new host of ''As It Happens'' beginning in September. Köksal h ...

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Semih Tezcan Semih Tezcan ('; born May 3, 1932) is a Turkish academic. He graduated from Istanbul Technical University Faculty of Civil engineering in 1954. In 1962, he went to Canada, and joined University of British Columbia as an assistant professor. Te ...

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Isaac Guillory Isaac Guillory (February 27, 1947 – December 31, 2000) was an American folk guitarist. Career Guillory first began performing in 1965, while still attending St. Johns River State College where he became a member of The Illusions, eventually ...

Cyprus

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Nazim al-Qubrusi Shaykh Muhammad Nazim Adil Al-Qubrusi Al-Haqqani (qaddas Allahu sirruhu) (born Mehmet Nâzım Âdil; 21 April 1922 – 7 May 2014) ( tr, Şeyh Muhammed Nâzım Âdil El-Kıbrısî Hakkanî), commonly known as Shaykh Nazim ( tr, Şeyh Nâzım ...

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Ulus Baker Ulus Sedat Baker (July 14, 1960 in Ankara, Turkey – July 12, 2007 in İstanbul, Turkey) was a Turkish Cypriot sociologist. Baker was born to a cosmopolitan family; his mother was the Cypriot poet Pembe Marmara, and his father was the prominent p ...

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Nil Burak Pembe Nihal Munsif (born 27 April 1948), better known as Nil Burak, is a Turkish Cypriot pop singer and actress who is famous in Turkey and Cyprus. Biography She was born in Lefka, Cyprus in 1948. She is best known for her hit song '' Sen de B ...

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Alkan Çağlar Alkan Boudewijn de Beaumont Chaglar (born August 5, 1981 in London) is a Canadian and British journalist. He used to be editor and columnist for the Turkish Cypriot weekly bilingual (English-Turkish) newspaper ''Toplum Postası''. He is currentl ...

* Reşat Çağlar * Murat Erdoğan *

Osman Ertuğ Mr. Osman Ertuğ (born 1949) served as the ''de facto'' ambassador of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) to the United States of America from 2002 to 2007, when he was succeeded by Hilmi Akil. As the TRNC is not recognized as sover ...

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İsmet Güney İsmet Vehit Güney (15 July 1923 – 23 June 2009) was a Turkish Cypriot artist, cartoonist, teacher and painter. He is best known as the designer of the modern flag of the Republic of Cyprus, the country's coat of arms and the original Cyprus ...

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Kemal İzzet Kemal "Kem" Izzet (; born 29 September 1980) is an English football coach and former professional player. He most notably played for Colchester United between 2001 and 2013, where he made over 400 league appearances. He was previously on the b ...

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Muzzy İzzet Mustafa Kemal "Muzzy" Izzet (; tr, İzzet; born 31 October 1974) is a former professional footballer who played as a midfielder for Chelsea, Leicester City, Birmingham City. Born in England, he represented the Turkey national team internatio ...

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Işın Karaca Işın Funda Büyükkaraca (born 7 March 1973), better known as Işın Karaca (), is a British-born Turkish Cypriot pop singer. Personal life Işın Funda Büyükkaraca was born into a Turkish Cypriot family which had emigrated to the United Ki ...

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Kıbrıslı Mehmed Emin Pasha Kıbrıslı Mehmed Emin Pasha ("Mehmed Emin Pasha the Cypriot"; 1813–1871) was an Ottoman civil servant and statesman of Turkish Cypriot origin, who served at the top post of Grand Vizier during three different times under the reign of the ...

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Asil Nadir Asil Nadir (born 1 May 1941) is a British Turkish Cypriot businessman, who was chief executive of Polly Peck, which he took over as a small textile company, growing it during the 1980s to become one of the United Kingdom's top 100 FTSE-listed co ...

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Omer Riza Omer Karime Ali Riza (born 8 November 1979) is a former footballer who is a coach at Watford's academy. Riza, who played as a forward, featured for English clubs Arsenal and West Ham United, Holland's Ado Den Haag and Turkish outfits Trabzons ...

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Derviş Zaim Derviş Zaim (born Derviş Zaimağaoğlu in 1964) is a Turkish Cypriot filmmaker and novelist, who has twice won the Golden Orange for Best Director for ''Elephants and Grass'' (2000) and ''Dot (2008)''; Golden Oranges for Best Film and Best Scr ...

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Yildiz Akdogan Yildiz Akdogan (born 29 April 1973) is a Turkish-Danish politician, who was a member of the Folketing for the Social Democrats from 2007 to 2011 and again from 2014 to 2019. Along with Özlem Cekic, she was one of the first female immigrant po ...

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Egypt

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Ihsan Abdel Quddous Ihsan Abdel Quddous ( arz, إحسان عبد القدوس ', ) (1 January 1919 – 12 January 1990) was an Egyptian writer, novelist, and journalist and editor in Egypt's '' Al Akhbar'' and ''Al-Ahram'' newspapers. He wrote many novels that ...

France

* Seyhan Kurt *

Cansel Elçin Cansel Elçin (born September 20, 1973) is a Turkish actor. Biography Cansel Elçin was born on September 20, 1973, in İzmir, Turkey, but his family moved to France when he was 9 years old. Elcin grew up trilingually and can speak Frenc ...

Georgia

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Sofia Nizharadze Sopho "Sofia" Nizharadze ( ka, სოფო ნიჟარაძე, ) is a Georgian singer, actress, and songwriter who represented Georgia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 with the song " Shine". Nizharadze was a judge on the TV shows ''G ...

Germany

Hungary

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Erol Onaran Erol's can refer to any of three companies, all founded by Erol Onaran, a Turkish immigrant to Virginia. Erol's Inc. Erol's Inc. was a video rental and electronic sales and repair company founded in 1963, which included video rental in 1980. By 1 ...

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Can Togay Can Togay (; born August 27, 1955), also known as János Can Togay, is a Hungarian film director, screenwriter, actor, poet, producer, cultural manager and cultural diplomat. Biography Can Togay was born the son of Turkish parents. He spent ...

Iraq

* İhsan Doğramacı *

Sinan Erbil Sinan Erbil (born 11 January 1965) is an Iraqi Turkmen singer from Erbil. His latest album is the politally charged "Neden Ağlar Kerkük'üm?", featuring Nuray Hafiftas along with a host of world class musicians ıncludıng Erdinç Şenyayla ...

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Mehmet Ali Erbil Mehmet Ali Erbil (born 8 February 1957) is a Turkish comedian, actor and talk show host of Kurdish descent. Biography Mehmet Ali was born in Istanbul, Turkey, as the son of Sadettin Erbil, a theatre and film actor, in 1957. He is the grandson o ...

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Reha Muhtar Reha Muhtar (born 21 July 1959) is a Turkish anchorman, columnist and television reporter of Iraqi Turkmen descent. He was first seen on TV as TRT's reporter from Turkey, Istanbul. Later he started hosting a debate program at show tv "''Ateş ...

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Princess Fahrelnissa Zeid Fahrelnissa Zeid (, ''Fakhr un-nisa'' or ''Fahr-El-Nissa''; 7 January 1901 – 5 September 1991) was a Turkish artist best known for her large-scale abstract paintings with kaleidoscopic patterns as well as her drawings, lithographs, and sculp ...

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Mehmet Türkmehmet Mehmet Türkmehmet (born 18 October 1980 in Kirkuk Kirkuk ( ar, كركوك, ku, کەرکووک, translit=Kerkûk, , tr, Kerkük) is a city in Iraq, serving as the capital of the Kirkuk Governorate, located north of Baghdad. The city is ...

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Ra'ad bin Zeid Ra'ad bin Zeid ( ar, رعد بن زيد; born 18 February 1936) is the son of Prince Zeid of the Hashemite House and Princess Fahrelnissa Zeid (''Fakhr un-nisa'' or ''Fahr-El-Nissa''), a Turkish noblewoman. Upon the death of his father on 18 O ...

* Prince Zeid bin Ra'ad

Ireland

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Billy Mehmet Billy Osman Mehmet (born 3 January 1984) is a professional footballer who last played as a striker for of Northern Cyprus. Born in London, of English, Irish and Turkish Cypriot descent, he has played for the Republic of Ireland U21 team. Me ...

Israel

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Pini Balili Pini Balili ( he, פִּינִי בַּלִילִי; born 18 June 1979) is an Israeli former football manager and former player. He was born in Jerusalem and is Jewish, of Turkish descent. Career Move back to Hapoel As a youngster, Balili grew ...

* Umut Güzelses * Meshulam Riklis * Berry Sakharof

Italy

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Cem Sultan Cem Sultan (also spelled Djem or Jem) or Sultan Cem or Şehzade Cem (December 22, 1459 – February 25, 1495, ; ota, جم سلطان, Cem sulṭān; tr, Cem Sultan; french: Zizim), was a claimant to the Ottoman throne in the 15th century. Ce ...

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Abraham Salomon Camondo Count Abraham Camondo (1781, Istanbul – 30 March 1873, Paris) was a Jewish Ottoman-Italian financier and philanthropist, and the patriarch of the Camondo family. Life and career He was born in Constantinople, during the Ottoman Empire. ...

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Leyla Gencer Ayşe Leyla Gencer (, née Çeyrekgil; 10 October 192810 May 2008) was a Turkish operatic soprano. Gencer was a notable ''bel canto'' soprano who spent most of her career in Italy, from the early 1950s through the mid-1980s, and had a reperto ...

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Mehmet Günsür Mehmet Günsür (; born 8 May 1975) is a Turkish model, actor and producer. Early life Günsür was born in 1975 as the second child of a family of Tatar descent (a Turkic ethnic subgroup). His mother, Sibel, was a lecturer and his father, Te ...

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Nicola Rossi-Lemeni Nicola Rossi-LemeniHis father's last name was Rossi, but his mother wanted her family name added, "Rossi Lemeni" (without a hyphen). However, many publications and recordings hyphenate the name. (November 6, 1920 – March 12, 1991), was a ...

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Ferzan Özpetek Ferzan Özpetek (born 3 February 1959) is a Turkish-Italian film director and screenwriter, residing in Italy. Biography Ferzan Özpetek was born in Istanbul in 1959. In 1976, he decided to move to Italy to study Cinema History at Sapienza Unive ...

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Hugo Pratt Ugo Eugenio Prat, better known as Hugo Pratt (15 June 1927 – 20 August 1995), was an Italian comic book creator who was known for combining strong storytelling with extensive historical research on works such as ''Corto Maltese''. He was ind ...

Jordan

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Kazakhstan

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Anjelika Akbar Anjelika Akbar (born 1969) is a Turkey, Turkish composer, pianist and writer. Biography Born Anjelika Rosenbaum to a Jewish people, Jewish family. Her mother was a professional musician, and her father, Stanislav Konstantinovich Timchenko, was a ...

Kosovo

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Soner Özbilen Soner Özbilen (born 1947) is a Turkish folk singer, conductor, and compiler. The origins are Albania (Kosovo) Early life Soner Özbilen was born in Boğazlıyan in 1947 from Albanian parents, they were immigrants from Kosovo. He finished ...

* Ali Haydar Şen * Güner Ureya

Kuwait

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Dina Al-Sabah Dina Al-Sabah (born February 28, 1974) is a professional figure competitor from Kuwait. She is the only female Arab athlete to achieve pro card status as of 2006, as well as the first female Arab athlete to ever stand on the Olympia stage. Bio ...

Latvia

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Samanta Tīna Samanta Poļakova (; born 31 March 1989), better known as Samanta Tīna, is a Latvian singer, songwriter and composer. After having attempted to represent her country in the Eurovision Song Contest seven times earlier (in 2012, 2013, 2014, 201 ...

Lebanon

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Bilal Aziz __NOTOC__ Bilal may refer to: People * Bilal (name) (a list of people with the name) * Bilal ibn Rabah, a companion of Muhammad * Bilal (American singer) * Bilal (Lebanese singer) Places * Bilal Colony, a neighbourhood of Korangi Town in Karac ...

* Ahmad Shukeiri

North Macedonia

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Tekin Arıburun Mehmet Tekin Arıburun (October 3, 1903 – October 13, 1993) was a Turkish soldier and statesman. He was born in then-Ottoman territory of Ishtib, Kosovo Vilayet (today Štip, part of the Republic of Macedonia). He was the last (Acting) Presi ...

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Yahya Kemal Beyatlı Yahya Kemal Beyatlı, born ''Ahmet Âgâh'' (2 December 1884 – 1 November 1958), generally known by the pen name ''Yahya Kemal'', was a leading Turkish poet and author, as well as a politician and diplomat. Early life and education Yahya Kema ...

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Şebnem Ferah Şebnem Ferah (born 12 April 1972) is a Turkish singer, songwriter, composer, and guitarist. She was the lead vocalist of the all-female hard rock band Volvox until 1994, after which she went on to pursue an illustrious solo career. Her music s ...

* Srgjan Kerim *

Ali Fethi Okyar Ali Fethi Okyar (29 April 1880 – 7 May 1943) was a Turkish diplomat and politician, who also served as a military officer and diplomat during the last decade of the Ottoman Empire. He was also the second Prime Minister of Turkey (1924–1925 ...

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Yksel Osmanovski Yksel Osmanovski ( Turkish: Yüksel Osmanoğlu; born 24 February 1977) is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a striker. Starting off his career with Malmö FF in the mid-1990s, he went on to represent Bari, Torino, and Borde ...

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Sibel Redzep Sibel is a Turkish female given name. People named ''Sibel'' include: * Sibel Adalı, Turkish-American computer scientist * Sibel Arslan (born 1980), Swiss-Turkish politician and lawyer * Sibel Alaş (born 1973), Turkish pop singer * Sibel Can (bo ...

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Esma Redžepova Esma Redžepova-Teodosievska ( mk, Есма Реџепова-Теодосиевска, ; 8 August 1943 – 11 December 2016) was a Macedonian Romani vocalist, songwriter and humanitarian. Because of her prolific repertoire, which included hund ...

* Tahsin Yazıcı

Morocco

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Ali Bourequat Ali Bourequat is a successful Moroccan/Tunisian businessman who was secretly arrested and incarcerated for years by the Moroccan government in the infamous secret prison Tazmamart.Alain Brossat, Jean-Louis Déotte, ''La mort dissoute: disparitio ...

* Leïla Chellabi

Mexico

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Irán Eory Irán Eory ( fa, ایران اِئوری; 21 October 1939 – 10 March 2002, born Elvira Teresa Eory) was an Iranian-born actress. She achieved fame in Mexico after moving to that country in the late 1960s. Biography She was born in Tehran, I ...

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Maya Jupiter Melissha Martinez (born 21 December 1978), better known by her stage name Maya Jupiter, is a Mexican-born Australian rapper, songwriter, MC and radio personality. She released her debut album, ''Today'', in 2003. She was a member of hip-hop group ...

Netherlands

New Zealand

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Ayşe Tezel Ayşe Tezel (born 19 September 1980) is a British Turk actress who made her debut in two episodes of the New Zealand television show '' Shortland Street'' in April 2002. She has acted in a number of television series and feature films shot in ...

Norway

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Azar Karadaş Azar Karadas ( tr, Azar Karadaş; born 9 August 1981) is a Norwegian former footballer. Although he could also play as a central defender, he operated primarily as a centre forward. He had three spells with Brann, where he began and ended hi ...

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Vendela Kirsebom Vendela Maria Kirsebom (born 12 January 1967) is a Norwegian- Swedish model, television host, and actress. Early life Kirsebom was born in Stockholm, Sweden, to a Norwegian mother and a Turkish father. At the age of 13, she was discovered in ...

Palestine

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Ekrem Akurgal Ekrem Akurgal (March 30, 1911 – November 1, 2002) was a Turkish archaeologist. During a career that spanned more than fifty years, he conducted definitive research in several sites along the western coast of Anatolia such as Phokaia (Foça) ...

Romania

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Mehmet Niyazi Mehmet Niyazi Cemali ( crh, script=latn, Memet Niyaziy; January or February 1878 – November 20, 1931) was an Ottoman-born Romanian and Crimean Tatar poet, journalist, schoolteacher, academic, and activist for ethnic Tatar causes. Present fo ...

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Murat Yusuf Muurat Iusuf (also known as Murat Iusuf; born August 18, 1977 in Poarta Albă) is a Romanian citizen Muslim cleric of Tatar origins, currently the Mufti of the Muslim Community in Romania. Biography Studies Yusuf began school in Romania, but i ...

South Africa

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Spain

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Irán Eory Irán Eory ( fa, ایران اِئوری; 21 October 1939 – 10 March 2002, born Elvira Teresa Eory) was an Iranian-born actress. She achieved fame in Mexico after moving to that country in the late 1960s. Biography She was born in Tehran, I ...

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Isaac Guillory Isaac Guillory (February 27, 1947 – December 31, 2000) was an American folk guitarist. Career Guillory first began performing in 1965, while still attending St. Johns River State College where he became a member of The Illusions, eventually ...

* Victoria Kamhi

Sweden

* Kazım Ayvaz * Sıraç Dilber *

Serkan İnan Serkan Inan (born 5 November 1986) is a Swedish-Turkish professional basketball player who currently plays for the AIK of the Swedish 2nd division North Svealand. He has previously played for multiple teams in the Turkish Basketball League. Profe ...

* Mehmet Kaplan *

Vendela Kirsebom Vendela Maria Kirsebom (born 12 January 1967) is a Norwegian- Swedish model, television host, and actress. Early life Kirsebom was born in Stockholm, Sweden, to a Norwegian mother and a Turkish father. At the age of 13, she was discovered in ...

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Emin Nouri Emin Nouri ( bg, Емин Нури, tr, Emin Nuri; born 22 July 1985) is a former professional footballer. He was born in Bulgaria and represented Sweden as a youth. He then represented Azerbaijan at senior level. Career Nouri was born in K ...

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Yksel Osmanovski Yksel Osmanovski ( Turkish: Yüksel Osmanoğlu; born 24 February 1977) is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a striker. Starting off his career with Malmö FF in the mid-1990s, he went on to represent Bari, Torino, and Borde ...

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Sermin Özürküt Sermin Özürküt (born 19 December 1949) is a Turkish- Swedish political figure who served in Swedish Parliament, the Riksdag, from 2002 to 2006. She is a journalist by profession and competed for her electoral seat in Stockholm County as a me ...

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Sibel Redzep Sibel is a Turkish female given name. People named ''Sibel'' include: * Sibel Adalı, Turkish-American computer scientist * Sibel Arslan (born 1980), Swiss-Turkish politician and lawyer * Sibel Alaş (born 1973), Turkish pop singer * Sibel Can (bo ...

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Erkan Zengin Erkan Zengin (born 5 August 1985) is a Swedish professional footballer who plays as a winger. A full international between 2013 and 2016, he won 21 caps for the Sweden national team and represented his country at UEFA Euro 2016. Early life Ze ...

Switzerland

Syria

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Yusuf al-Azma Yusuf al-Azma ( ar, يوسف العظمة, ALA-LC: ''Yūsuf al-ʻAẓmah''; 1883 – 24 July 1920) was the Syrian minister of war in the governments of prime ministers Rida al-Rikabi and Hashim al-Atassi, and the Arab Army's chief of general st ...

United Kingdom

United States

By type

Precedence

* Turkish order of precedence

Assassinated people

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List of assassinated people from Turkey The following is an incomplete, chronological list of people from Turkey murdered by assassins mainly on political and religious grounds. Many were critical public servants and intellectuals assassinated by far-right proponents of an army-controlle ...

Chiefs of MIT

* List of Chiefs of the MIT

Turks of net worth

* List of Turks by net worth

Governors of the Central Bank of Turkey

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List of Governors of the Central Bank of Turkey The following is a list of governors of the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey The Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey, CBRT ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyet Merkez Bankası, TCMB, literally "The Turkish Republic Central Bank") is the central ba ...

Cartoonists

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Oğuz Aral Oğuz Aral (1936 – 26 July 2004) was a Turkish political cartoonist and comics artist, known for his satirical style. He was also active as a theatre designer, playwright, ceramist and animator, establishing the first Turkish animation studio. ...

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Mahmud A. Asrar Mahmud Anjum Asrar (born November 20, 1976 in Ankara, Turkey"About"
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* Yıldıray Çınar *

Onur Demirsoy Onur Demirsoy (born July 11, 1981, Ankara, Turkey) is the animation director and one of the cartoonists of the humour web site Grafi2000. Biography Onur Demirsoy was born in 1981 in Ankara. He completed primary and middle school in TED Ankara Co ...

* Gürbüz Doğan Ekşioğlu * Ihap Hulusi Görey * Cem Kiziltug * Ulas Mangitli * Hasip Pektas * Suat Yalaz * Cem Yılmaz

Centenarians

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Albert Jean Amateau Albert Jean Amateau (April 20, 1889 – February 9, 1996) was a Turkish rabbi, businessman, lawyer, social activist, and denier of the Armenian genocide. Early years Born a Sephardic Jew in Milas, Ottoman Empire (now Turkey), Amateau atten ...

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Celal Bayar Celal is both a masculine Turkish given name and a surname. It is the Turkish form of the Arabic word Jalal (جلال), which means "majesty". Notable people with the name include: Given name * Celal Al (born 1984), Turkish actor * Celal Esat Ar ...

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Ahmet Kayhan Dede Ahmet Kayhan Dede (1898, Pütürge Pütürge or Pötürge ( ku, Şîro) is a district of Malatya Province of Turkey. The mayor is Mehmet Polat ( AKP). Composition The district is populated by Kurds (both Alevi and Sunni Sunni Islam ...

Chefs

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CZN Burak Burak Özdemir, known as CZN Burak, is a Turkish chef and restaurateur. CZN, Özdemir's nickname, originates from a frequent mispronunciation of the ''Cinzano'', the name of his father's textile shop in Laleli. Entrepreneurship Burak owns th ...

* Emel Başdoğan *

Hüseyin Özer Hüseyin Özer (born 1949 in Reşadiye, Tokat Province, Turkey) is a Turkish British Chef#''Chef de cuisine'', executive chef and head chef, executive chef and restaurateur, who owns a restaurant chain based in London. Early life Hüseyin Özer ...

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Deniz Orhun Deniz Orhun (born 1974) is a chef, media personality and businesswoman. Chef Deniz graduated from Ankara University-Department of Agriculture Engineering, she completed her MBA Master's degree at London College and Hacettepe University. She wo ...

* Nusret Gökçe * Kadir Nurman

Civil servants

Composers

Diplomats

Doctors

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Fikri Alican Fikri Alican (2 April 1929 – 19 August 2015) was a Turkish scientist and physician with various contributions to medical science, ranging from organ transplantation to physiology. Early life and career Alican was born in Adapazarı, a city ...

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Reşit Süreyya Gürsey Reşit Süreyya Gürsey (1889–1962) was a Turkish intellectual who was a medical doctor, a radiology expert, a physicist and a poet. Life He was born to Zekiye in Bor of Niğde Province during the Ottoman Empire era. His father Hasan Hüs ...

* Hulusi Behçet *

Münci Kalayoğlu Münci Kalayoğlu is a doctor from Turkey. He was born in Ankara Ankara ( , ; ), historically known as Ancyra and Angora, is the capital of Turkey. Located in the central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of 5.1 million i ...

* Zeynel A. Karcioglu *

Behram Kurşunoğlu Behram Kurşunoğlu (14 March 1922 – 25 October 2003) was a Turkish physicist and the founder and the director of the Center for Theoretical Studies, University of Miami. He was best known for his works on unified field theory, energy and ...

* Serdar Nasır *

Sabuncuoğlu Şerafeddin Şerafeddin Sabuncuoğlu (1385–1468) (Ottoman Turkish: شرف‌الدّین صابونجی‌اوغلی) was a medieval Ottoman surgeon and physician. Şerafeddin Sabuncuoğlu started his medical interests at the age of 17. He would continue ...

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Mehmet Oz Mehmet Cengiz Öz (; born June 11, 1960), known professionally as Dr. Oz (), is an Turkish American former professor of cardiothoracic surgery at Columbia University, television presenter, author and former political candidate. The son of Tu ...

* Hasan Özbekhan *

Ömer Özkan Ömer Özkan (born 1971) is a Turkish plastic surgeon. An associate professor at the Akdeniz University in Antalya, he led the team that performed in 2012 the first full face transplant in Turkey. Education He finished in 1988 Cumhuriyet High Sc ...

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Selahattin Özmen Selahattin Özmen is a Turkish plastic surgeon. A full-professor of Plastic Surgery at the Koç University School of Medicine, Department of Plastic Surgery and American Hospital Department of Plastic Surgery in İstanbul, he performed Turkey' ...

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Mustafa Ülgen Mustafa Ülgen (born 1945 in İnegöl, Bursa Province) is a Turkish orthodontist. Biography Ülgen completed primary and middle school in İnegöl. After his graduation from Bursa Boys High School, he graduated from Istanbul University Faculty of ...

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Emin Cumhur Şener Emin may refer to: As a name * Emin (given name) *Emin (surname) Places * Emin County, county in Xinjiang, China * Emin Minaret, the tallest minaret in China * Emin Valley, on the borders of China and Kazakhstan * Emin or Emil River, in Emin Va ...

Educators

* Hasan Âli Yücel * Haşim İşcan * Hasip Pektas

Entrepreneurs

Entertainers

Comedians

* Kemal Sunal *

Ercan Yazgan Ercan Yazgan (4 April 1946 – 8 March 2018) was a Turkish comedian and political satirist. He was widely regarded as one of Turkey's most prominent and respected comedians. He starred in numerous movies and various TV-series. He died on 8 Marc ...

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Beyazıt Öztürk Beyazıt Öztürk (born 12 March 1969), also known as Beyaz, is a Turkish television personality, standup comedian and actor. He is the host of '' Beyaz Show'', a popular Turkish talk show. In 2018, he became one of the judges on ''O Ses Türkiye ...

* Cem Yılmaz *

Ata Demirer Ata Demirer (born 6 July 1972) is a Turkish filmmaker, stand-up comedian, actor, and musician. He is known for his live comedy sketches as well as for writing and starring in a string of Turkish box-office hits including '' Eyyvah Eyvah'' (2010) ...

Theatre directors

* Muhsin Ertuğrul *

Ferhan Şensoy Osman Ferhan Şensoy (26 February 1951 – 31 August 2021) was a Turkish actor, playwright and director. Private life Şensoy was born in Çarşamba district of Samsun Province in northern Turkey on 26 February 1951. After attending Galatasaray ...

Environmentalists

* Kemal Şahin

Fashion designers

* Hussein Chalayan *

Rifat Özbek Rifat Ozbek ( tr, Rıfat Özbek, ; born 1953) is a Turkish-born fashion designer, known for his exotic, ethnically-inspired outfits. He was named British Designer of the Year in 1988 and 1992. Biography Ozbek was born in Istanbul, Turkey and g ...

* Erdem Moralioğlu

Filmmakers

Film directors

Film producers

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Ömer Lütfi Akad Omar/Umar ( ar, عمر) is a masculine given name that has different origins in three languages across the world (Arabic, Hebrew and Germanic) even though it is best known as an Arabic name and the name Omar was mentioned in the Old Testament. Oma ...

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Tunç Başaran Tunç Başaran (October 1, 1938 – December 18, 2019) was a Turkish screenwriter, film director, film producer and actor. Biography After attending the Faculty of Literature for a while he left school and started working as a script writer ...

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Sinan Çetin Sinan Çetin (born March 1, 1953) is a Turkish film director, actor, and producer. He won the best director award at the 12th Dhaka International Film Festival. Çetin was born as one of the eight children of a customs officer. He is of matern ...

* Zeki Demirkubuz *

Türker İnanoğlu Türker İnanoğlu (born May 18, 1936) is a Turkish screenwriter, film director and producer. Life He married first the film actress Filiz Akın, and after his divorce Gülşen Bubikoğlu, another former Turkish movie star. He has two children ...

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Sabri Kalic Sabri ( ar, صبري) is a male given name of Arabic origin, it may refer to: Given name * Sabri Çakır (born 1955), Turkish poet * Sabri Gurses (born 1972), Turkish writer * Sabri Jiryis (born 1938), Arab-Israeli writer * Sabri Kalic (born 19 ...

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Semih Kaplanoğlu Semih Kaplanoğlu (born 4 April 1963) is a Turkish screenwriter, film director and producer. Life and career In 1984, Kaplanoğlu moved to Istanbul and worked for a couple of years as a copywriter for advertising companies like Güzel Sanatlar ...

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Onat Kutlar Onat Kutlar (25 January 1936 – 11 January 1995) was a prominent Turkish writer and poet, founder of the Turkish Sinematek and cofounder of the Istanbul International Film Festival. Biography Onat Kutlar was born in Alanya, Turkey, on 25 J ...

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Tolga Örnek Tolga Örnek (born 25 August 1972) is a Turkish film director, writer and producer who, in recognition of his 2005 documentary, ''Gallipoli'', was awarded an honorary medal in the general division of the Order of Australia.Ali Özgentürk *

Halit Refiğ Halit Refiğ (5 March 1934 – 11 October 2009) was a Turkish film director, film producer, screenwriter and writer. He made around sixty films, including feature films, documentaries and TV serials. He is considered to be the pioneer of t ...

* Mehmet Tanrısever *

Atıf Yılmaz Atıf Yılmaz Batıbeki (9 December 1925 – 5 May 2006) was a renowned Turkish film director, screenwriter, and film producer. He was very much a legend in the film industry of Turkey with 119 movies directed. He also wrote 53 screenplays an ...

Film score composers

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Mazhar Alanson Mahmut Mazhar Alanson (born February 13, 1950) is a Turkish musician, guitarist, member of the popular Turkish pop music band MFÖ, and an actor. Early life He was born on February 13, 1950, to a family of musicians in Ankara, Turkey, wher ...

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Fuat Güner Aziz Fuat Güner (born 1 April 1948), better known as Fuat Güner, is a Turkish pop musician, member of the renowned band MFÖ and an actor. Early life He was born on 1 April 1948 in Istanbul, Turkey to a renowned photographer father, Sami ...

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Emir Işılay Emir Işılay (born 23 August 1978, in Istanbul) is a Turkish jazz and film composer and pianist/keyboardist. He is a graduate of Berklee College of Music and has worked as a music arranger/orchestrator/engineer on projects including TV series ''B ...

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Gökhan Kırdar Gökhan Kırdar (born 2 June 1970) is a Turkish musician and film score composer. He attended Yıldız University in Istanbul to study architecture in 1988. However, he devoted himself to music and soon gained success with his soundtrack, rele ...

* Erkan Oğur *

Ozan Çolakoğlu Ozan Çolakoğlu (, born 1 April 1972) is a Turkish composer, songwriter and music producer; famous for his work with various Turkish pop singers and his multiple film scores. He co-founded the production company ''Sarı Ev'' (Yellow House), but ...

* Özkan Uğur * Zülfü Livaneli *

Melih Kibar Melih Kibar (6 September 1951 – 7 April 2005) was a Turkish composer. Biography Born in Istanbul ) , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = 34000 to 34990 , area_code = +90 212 (European side ...

Financiers

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Abraham Salomon Camondo Count Abraham Camondo (1781, Istanbul – 30 March 1873, Paris) was a Jewish Ottoman-Italian financier and philanthropist, and the patriarch of the Camondo family. Life and career He was born in Constantinople, during the Ottoman Empire. ...

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Hüsnü Özyeğin Hüsnü Özyeğin (born 1944) is a Turkish billionaire. He founded Finansbank in 1987 and later sold the Turkish division of the bank. Nowadays, his financial investments are managed under Fiba Holding while non-financial investments are managed ...

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Erol Sabancı Erol Sabancı (born 1938) is a billionaire Turkish banker and a member of the Sabancı family. Sabancı is the honorary chairman of Akbank. He has been board member of Akbank since 1963, Turkey's most valuable and profitable bank. Early life Sa ...

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Süreyya Serdengeçti Süreyya Serdengeçti is a Turkish economist and former Governor of the Central Bank of Turkey. He is currently working as a lecturer in Economics at the TOBB University of Economics and Technology in Ankara, Turkey. Early life He was born i ...

* Naim Talu * Berç Türker Keresteciyan * Durmuş Yılmaz

Government and politics

* List of Turkish politicians * List of presidents of Turkey * List of prime ministers of Turkey * List of Turkish diplomats *

List of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Turkey This is a list of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Turkey. List The position of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Turkey was established in 1920, during the Turkish War of Independence. List of ministers of foreign affairs by time in office ...

* List of speakers of the Parliament of Turkey * List of presidents of the Constitutional Court of Turkey

Historians

* Abdülhak Adnan Adıvar *

Zeynep Ahunbay Zeynep Ahunbay (born 1946 in Ünye, Ordu Province) is a leading Turkish scholar of antiquities. Biography Dr. Ahunbay was born in Ünye, Ordu Province, a small town in the Black Sea region of Turkey. She received her PhD in architectural his ...

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Sadri Maksudi Arsal Sadri Maksudi Arsal (1878 – 20 February 1957) was one of the leading figures in the national awakening of Tatars in Russia during early 1900s. He worked as a writer, lawyer, politician, professor, lecturer, researcher of Turkic languages and a ...

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Murat Bardakçı Murat Gökhan Bardakçı (born 25 December 1955) is a Turkish journalist working on Ottoman history and Turkish music history. He is also a columnist for ''Habertürk'' newspaper. Biography Bardakçı was born in 1955 in İstanbul. An economist ...

* Halil Berktay * Muazzez İlmiye Çığ - Sumerologist *

Selim Deringil Selim M. Deringil (born Ottawa, 19 August 1951) is a Turkish academic, and professor of history at Boğaziçi University and at the Lebanese American University. Career Deringil earned his doctorate from the University of East Anglia in 1979, a ...

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Şemsettin Günaltay Mehmet Şemsettin Günaltay (; 17 July 1883 – 19 October 1961) was a Turkish historian, politician, and Prime Minister of Turkey from 1949 to 1950. Biography Günaltay was born 1883 in the Kemaliye town of the Vilayet of Mamuret-ul-Aziz ...

* Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu *

Halil İnalcık Halil İnalcık (7 September 1916 – 25 July 2016) was a Turkish historian. His highly influential research centered on social and economic approaches to the Ottoman Empire. His academic career started at Ankara University, where he completed hi ...

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Afet İnan Ayşe Afet İnan (30 October 1908 – 8 June 1985) was a Turkish historian and sociologist. She was one of the eight adopted daughters of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. She was known to be involved in the practice of physical anthropology, as she ...

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Kemal Karpat Kemal Haşim Karpat (15 February 1924, Babadag Tulcea, Romania – 20 February 2019, Manchester, New Hampshire, United States) was a Romanian- Turkish naturalised American historian and professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Earl ...

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Reşat Ekrem Koçu Reşat Ekrem Koçu (1905 – July 6, 1975) was a Turkish writer and historian. His best known work is his unfinished Istanbul Encyclopedia (''İstanbul Ansiklopedisi''), which recounts many tales of Istanbul from Ottoman times. Koçu and his co ...

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Mehmet Fuat Köprülü Mehmet Fuat Köprülü (December 5, 1890 – June 28, 1966), also known as Köprülüzade Mehmed Fuad, was a highly influential Turkish sociologist, turkologist, scholar, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister of the Republ ...

* Aydin Sayili *

Leyla Neyzi Leyla Neyzi (born July 29, 1961) is a Turkish academic (anthropologist/ sociologist/historian) who is currently working in Sabancı University, Istanbul. Biography Leyla Neyzi was born in Istanbul, Turkey, the daughter of Ali H. Neyzi, a bu ...

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İlber Ortaylı İlber Ortaylı (born 21 May 1947) is a Turkish historian and professor of history of Crimean Tatar origin at the MEF University, Galatasaray University in Istanbul and at Bilkent University in Ankara. In 2005, he was appointed as the director ...

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Şevket Pamuk Şevket Pamuk is chair of contemporary Turkish studies at the European Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science, and Professor of Economics and Economic History at Boğaziçi (Bosphorus) University. He is a leading economic ...

* Hikmet Tanyu * Zeki Velidi Togan *

Taner Akçam Altuğ Taner Akçam (born 1953) is a Turkish-German historian and sociologist. During the 1990s, he was the first Turkish scholar to acknowledge the Armenian genocide, and has written several books on the genocide, such as ''A Shameful Act'' ( ...

Journalists

* Yunus Nadi Abalıoğlu *

Ahmet Ağaoğlu Ahmet Ağaoğlu, also known as Ahmet Bey Ağaoğlu ( az, Əhməd bəy Ağaoğlu; December 1869 – 19 May 1939), was a prominent Azerbaijani and naturalized Turkish politician, publicist and journalist. He was one of the founders of Pan-Turkis ...

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Sunay Akın Sunay Akın (born September 12, 1962) is a Turkish poet, writer, TV host, journalist, and a philanthropist. He is the founder of Istanbul Toy Museum. Akın was born in Trabzon, Turkey. Akın is best known for his poetry; his primary influenc ...

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Muammer Aksoy Muammer Aksoy (1917 – January 31, 1990) was a Turkish academic of law, politician, columnist and intellectual. He was assassinated. Biography Aksoy was born 1917 in İbradı, Antalya Province to the member of the Ottoman parliament Numan Aks ...

* Mustafa Akyol *

Çetin Altan Çetin Altan (22 June 1927 – 22 October 2015) was a Turkish writer, journalist, and a member of parliament. He was considered one of the finest writers in the modern Turkish language of the late 20th century. Early years Çetin Altan was ...

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Fatih Altaylı Fatih Altaylı (born 20 September 1962) is a Turkish journalist, columnist, television presenter and media executive. Life He graduated from Galatasaray High School in Istanbul. Fatih Altaylı stepped into journalism at the newspaper ''Cumhuriye ...

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Engin Ardıç Engin Ardıç (born 1 February 1952) is a Turkish writer and a newspaper columnist for the Sabah newspaper. He also worked as a television commentator in the 1990s. Biography Ardıç was born on 1 February 1952 in Trabzon, a coastal city on th ...

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Ayşe Arman Ayşe Arman (born 9 December 1969) is a Turkish journalist and columnist of German descent. She is best known for her interviews. Arman is the author of two books, one of which is a compilation of best moments of her interviews made over the pa ...

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Duygu Asena Duygu Asena (19 April 1946 – 30 July 2006) was a Turkish journalist, best-selling author and activist for women's rights. Biography She was born in Istanbul as the daughter of Nihal and Muhtar Asena. His father was in the sesame business. His g ...

* İsmet Atlı *

Murat Bardakçı Murat Gökhan Bardakçı (born 25 December 1955) is a Turkish journalist working on Ottoman history and Turkish music history. He is also a columnist for ''Habertürk'' newspaper. Biography Bardakçı was born in 1955 in İstanbul. An economist ...

* Ali Cimen *

Bekir Coşkun Bekir Coşkun (1945 – 18 October 2020) was a Turkish journalist, writer and columnist for leading Turkish daily, ''Cumhuriyet''. He was a good friend of Emin Çölaşan, with whom he had worked in the newspaper ''Hürriyet'' before they were co ...

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Bikem Ekberzade Bikem Ekberzade (born 1971, Istanbul) is a Turkish journalist, photojournalist and Documentary photography, documentary photographer. She is known for her work on Forced displacement, forced migration in the Balkans, Africa, Central Asia, and the M ...

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Üstün Bilgen-Reinart Üstün Bilgen-Reinart (born 1947 in Ankara, Turkey) is a Turkish-Canadian writer, journalist and broadcaster, author of three notable books, the first two on the social and environmental dislocations associated with development in Canada and we ...

* Ahmet Çakar * Eyüp Can (journalist) * Cengiz Çandar *

Hakan Celik Hakan is a common Turkish forename, based on the Turkish language variant of the imperial title Khagan. The name is also spelled Khakan or Khaqan in other parts of the world, with the same etymology. Given name *Ahmet Hakan Coşkun (born 1967 ...

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Emin Çölaşan Emin Çölaşan (born 14 March 1942) is a Turkish investigative journalist, whose daily column appeared in the mass-circulation newspaper, Istanbul-based ''Hürriyet'', for 22 years, from 1985 to 2007. Since 2007, he continues his column in ''S� ...

* Ahmet Hakan Coşkun *

Can Dündar Can Dündar (, born 16 June 1961) is a Turkish journalist, columnist and documentarian. Editor-in-chief of center-left ''Cumhuriyet'' newspaper until August 2016, he was arrested in November 2015 after his newspaper published footage showing the ...

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Bülent Ecevit Mustafa Bülent Ecevit (; 28 May 1925 – 5 November 2006) was a Turkish politician, statesman, poet, writer, scholar, and journalist, who served as the Prime Minister of Turkey four times between 1974 and 2002. He served as prime minister in ...

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Burak Eldem Burak Eldem (born 1961) is a Turkish writer/researcher, a former radio and TV programmer, web developer and journalist. He is the author of "2012: Rendez-vous With Marduk" (also known as ''2012: Appointment With Marduk'' - 2003), ''Fraternis: Lost ...

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Fahir Ersin Fahir Ersin (February 22, 1929 – April 1, 1988) was a Turkish journalist, intellectual and a proponent of rights of Turkish Migrants in Germany and of Turkish-German relations. He was born in Istanbul, Turkey, as son of Ayshe Sultan from the de ...

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Burhan Felek Burhan Felek (May 11, 1889 in Istanbul – November 4, 1982 in Istanbul) was a Turkish journalist, columnist, sportsperson and writer. He was born on May 11, 1889, in Istanbul. After graduating in 1910 from Istanbul Law School, later the Faculty ...

* Uğur Gürses *

Hasan Tahsin Hasan Tahsin was the code name of Osman Nevres (1888 – 15 May 1919), a Turkish nationalist, patriot, and journalist of Dönmeh descent. Hailed as a Turkish war hero, his name has been given by the Turkish Armed Forces to the Information ...

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Attilâ İlhan Attilâ İlhan (15 June 1925 – 10 October 2005) was a Turkish poet, novelist, essayist, journalist and reviewer. Early life and education Attilâ İlhan was born in Menemen in İzmir Province, Turkey on 15 June 1925. He received most of his ...

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Balçiçek İlter Balçiçek İlter, formerly also known as Balçiçek Pamir (born June 16, 1973, İstanbul), is a Turkish journalist, columnist and television presenter. Early years She studied psychology at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara after fi ...

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Abdi İpekçi Abdi İpekçi (9 August 1929 – 1 February 1979) was a Turkish journalist, intellectual and an activist for human rights. He was murdered while editor-in-chief of one of the main Turkish daily newspapers '' Milliyet'' which then had a cent ...

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İsmail Cem İpekçi Ishmael ''Ismaḗl''; Classical/Qur'anic Arabic: إِسْمَٰعِيْل; Modern Standard Arabic: إِسْمَاعِيْل ''ʾIsmāʿīl''; la, Ismael was the first son of Abraham, the common patriarch of the Abrahamic religions; and is cons ...

* Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu *

Namık Kemal Namık Kemal (21 December 1840 – 2 December 1888) was an Ottoman democrat, writer, intellectual, reformer, journalist, playwright, and political activist who was influential in the formation of the Young Ottomans and their struggle for go ...

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Coşkun Kırca Coşkun Kırca (27 March 1927 in Istanbul – 24 February 2005 in Istanbul) was a Turkish diplomat, journalist and politician. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey in 1995. He was at first a member of the Republican People's Party ( ...

* Ahmet Taner Kışlalı *

Halit Kıvanç Halit Mecit Kıvanç (18 February 1925 – 25 October 2022) was a Turkish television and radio presenter, humorist, sports journalist and writer. He was best known as a sports commentator. Early years Kıvanç was born in the Fatih district of ...

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Uğur Mumcu Uğur Mumcu (; 22 August 1942 – 24 January 1993)
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Altan Öymen Mehmet Altan Öymen (born 20 June 1932) is a Turkish journalist, author and former politician. Biography Öymen graduated from the School of Political Science of Ankara University. He began his journalist career already in 1950 at age of 18, a ...

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Ertuğrul Özkök Ertuğrul Özkök (born 8 April 1947) is a Turkish journalist and a daily columnist. Between 1990 and 2010, he was the editor-in-chief for ''Hürriyet'', a daily newspaper published in Turkish in Turkey and some European countries. Özkök is ...

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Erman Şener Erman Şener (9 August 1942 in Afyon, Turkey – 29 March 2002 in Istanbul) was a Turkish film critic, screenwriter, author, columnist, TV host and producer. Background Şener was born in Afyon, Turkey. After he graduated from primary school hi ...

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Hıfzı Topuz Hıfzı Topuz (born 25 January 1923) is a Turkish journalist, travel writer and novelist. He also served as a lecturer on journalism at several universities. Early life Hıfzı Topuz was born 1923 in Istanbul. After finishing his secondary educa ...

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Şerif Turgut Şerif Turgut is a Turkish journalist and the first woman war correspondent of Turkey, best known for her coverage during the Bosnian War. Şerif Turgut received her master's degree in international politics from George Washington University, U ...

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Cavit Orhan Tütengil Cavit Orhan Tütengil (1921 – December 7, 1979) was a Turkish sociologist, writer and columnist, who was assassinated. Biography He was born in Sebil, a village of Tarsus, in Mersin province of what was then the Ottoman Empire. Followi ...

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Bahriye Üçok Bahriye Üçok (1919 – October 6, 1990) was a Turkish people, Turkish academic of theology, left-wing politician, writer, columnist, and women's rights activist whose assassination in 1990 remains unresolved. Early life and education Born in Tr ...

* Serhat Ulueren *

Ahmet Vardar Ahmet Vardar (1937 – 25 February 2010) was a notable Turkish journalist and television presenter. Biography Vardar was born 1937 in Istanbul. He worked for many newspapers, the longest for the daily ''Sabah''. He served for many years as the ...

* Alinur Velidedeoğlu * Ragıp Zarakolu

Judges

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Lütfi Akadlı Ömer Lütfi Akadlı (1902–1988) was a Turkish judge. He was the president of the Constitutional Court of Turkey The Constitutional Court of Turkey ( tr, , sometimes abbreviated as ''AYM'') is the highest legal body for constitutional ...

* Zeki Akar *

Sünuhi Arsan Sünuhi Arsan (1899 – 1970) was a Turkish judge. He was the first president of the Constitutional Court of Turkey The Constitutional Court of Turkey ( tr, , sometimes abbreviated as ''AYM'') is the highest legal body for constitutional revie ...

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Murat Arslan Murat Arslan (born 1974) is a former Turkish judge active in the Judges and Prosecutors Union and political prisoner. Biography He is married and father of two children. He graduated from the faculty of law of the Istanbul University in 199 ...

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Osman Arslan Osman Arslan (born December 21, 1942 in Kalecik, Ankara) is a high ranked Turkish judge and currently the First President of the Court of Cassation A court of cassation is a high-instance court that exists in some judicial systems. Courts o ...

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Ahmet Hamdi Boyacıoğlu Ahmet Hamdi Boyacıoğlu (1920, Bolu – August 23, 1998) was a Turkish judge. He was president of the Constitutional Court of Turkey The Constitutional Court of Turkey ( tr, , sometimes abbreviated as ''AYM'') is the highest legal body for ...

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Mustafa Bumin Mustafa Bumin (born 26 June 1940 in Mucur, Kırşehir Province) is a former Turkish judge. He was president of the Constitutional Court of Turkey from May 31, 2000 until June 24, 2005. Under his presidency of the Constitutional court the People ...

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Sumru Çörtoğlu Sumru Çörtoğlu (born May 13, 1943) is a high-ranked Turkish judge. She served as the Chief Justice of the Turkish Council of State. On May 3, 2006, Sumru Çörtoğlu, who was the Head of the 4th Department of the Council of State since Febru ...

*Mahmut Cuhruk *Necdet Darıcıoğlu *Uğur İbrahimhakkıoğlu *Hakkı Ketenoğlu *Şevket Müftügil *Nuri Ok *Orhan Onar *Mustafa Yücel Özbilgin *Yekta Güngör Özden *Semih Özmert *İbrahim Senil *Ahmet Necdet Sezer *Osman Şirin *Muhittin Taylan *Tülay Tuğcu *Kani Vrana *Abdurrahman Yalçınkaya

Lawyers

* Hicri Fişek * Kemal Kerinçsiz * Mehmet Ali Şahin * Köksal Toptan * Hayati Yazıcı

Magicians

* Sermet Erkin * Ertuğrul Işınbark * İlkay Özdemir * Zati Sungur

Mathematicians

*Ali Akansu *Selman Akbulut *Cahit Arf *Attila Aşkar *Gelenbevi Ismail Efendi *Feza Gürsey *Halil Mete Soner *Ayşe Soysal *Tosun Terzioğlu *'Abd al-Hamīd ibn Turk *Cem Yıldırım *Yomtov Garti

Military

* Shlomo Gazit (1926–2020), Israeli head of Israeli Defense Forces, IDF Aman (IDF), military intelligence, President of Ben-Gurion University *List of Chiefs of the Turkish General Staff *List of Commanders of the Turkish Land Forces *List of Commanders of the Turkish Air Force *List of Commanders of the Turkish Naval Forces *List of General Commanders of the Gendarmerie of Turkey *List of Commandants of the Turkish Coast Guard *List of Commanders of the First Army of Turkey

Models

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Azra Akın Azra Akın (born 8 December 1981) is a Turkish-Dutch actress, dancer, model and beauty queen who was crowned Miss World 2002 in London on December 7, 2002. Biography Akın was born in Almelo, Netherlands, to Turkish parents. Her father (Nazı ...

*Büşra Duran Gündüz *Deniz Akkaya *Vildan Atasever *Doğa Bekleriz *Gülşen Bubikoğlu *Itır Esen *Gül Gölge *Tuğçe Güder *Yıldız Kaplan *Aysun Kayacı *

Tuğçe Kazaz Tuğçe Kazaz (born 26 August 1982) is a Turkish model, actress and Miss Turkey 2001. Biography Kazaz was born in Edremit, Balıkesir Province. She was educated in international relations at the Yeditepe University in Istanbul. She acted ...

* Çağla Kubat *Manolya Onur *Tuğba Özay *Gamze Özçelik *Jennifer Şebnem Schaefer *Hale Soygazi *Tuba Ünsal

Musicologists

* Filiz Ali * Emre Araci * Rauf Yekta Bey *

Recep Uslu Recep Uslu is a Turkish writer and researcher Research is " creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge". It involves the collection, organization and analysis of evidence to increase understanding of a top ...

Music producers

* Haluk Kurosman *

Ozan Çolakoğlu Ozan Çolakoğlu (, born 1 April 1972) is a Turkish composer, songwriter and music producer; famous for his work with various Turkish pop singers and his multiple film scores. He co-founded the production company ''Sarı Ev'' (Yellow House), but ...

* Hasan Saltık

Notable families

*Eczacıbaşı family *

Koç family The Koç family is a Turkish family of business people founded by Vehbi Koç, one of the wealthiest self-made people in Turkey. His grandsons, the third generation of the Koç family, today run Turkey's largest group of companies, Koç Holding, ...

*Köprülü family *Sabancı family

Opera singers

*Esin Afşar *Balık sisters *Semiha Berksoy *Bülent Bezdüz *Burak Bilgili *

Leyla Gencer Ayşe Leyla Gencer (, née Çeyrekgil; 10 October 192810 May 2008) was a Turkish operatic soprano. Gencer was a notable ''bel canto'' soprano who spent most of her career in Italy, from the early 1950s through the mid-1980s, and had a reperto ...

Painters

*List of Turkish painters *List of Turkish Painters and artists

Philanthropists

*Adile Sultan *Nuri Demirağ * Rahmi Koç *

Vehbi Koç Ahmet Vehbi Koç (20 July 1901 – 25 February 1996) was a Turkish entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded the Koç Group, one of Turkey’s largest groups of companies. During his lifetime he came to be one of Turkey's wealthiest citiz ...

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Sakıp Sabancı Sakıp Sabancı (7 April 1933 – 10 April 2004) was a Turkish business tycoon and philanthropist. Biography He was the second son of a cotton trader and worked in his father's business without completing high school. He was the head of Turkey' ...

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Şevket Sabancı Şevket Sabancı (1936 – 22 July 2021) was a Turkish billionaire businessman and philanthropist, and a second-generation member of the Sabancı family. Biography He was born 1936 in Kayseri, Turkey, as the fourth son of Hacı Ömer Sabancı, ...

Philosophers

Photographers

*Ara Güler *

Ömer Asan Ömer Şükrü Asan (born May 28, 1961) is a Turkish Folkloristics, folklorist, photographer and writer. In 2002, he was charged with allegations that he violated Article 8 of Turkey's Anti-Terror Law by "propagandating separatism" for his book ...

*Rahmizâde Bâhâeddin Bediz *

Bikem Ekberzade Bikem Ekberzade (born 1971, Istanbul) is a Turkish journalist, photojournalist and Documentary photography, documentary photographer. She is known for her work on Forced displacement, forced migration in the Balkans, Africa, Central Asia, and the M ...

*Burhan Doğançay *

İsmail Cem İpekçi Ishmael ''Ismaḗl''; Classical/Qur'anic Arabic: إِسْمَٰعِيْل; Modern Standard Arabic: إِسْمَاعِيْل ''ʾIsmāʿīl''; la, Ismael was the first son of Abraham, the common patriarch of the Abrahamic religions; and is cons ...

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Nasuh Mahruki Ali Nasuh Mahruki (born 21 May 1968) is a professional mountain climber, writer, photographer and documentary film producer. An all-round outdoor sportsman, he climbed to the summit of Mount Everest and was the first ever Turkish person to cli ...

*Pascal Sebah *Uğur Uluocak

Physicists

*Bulent Atalay *Nihat Berker *Ordal Demokan *Tekin Dereli *Feza Gürsey *Erdal İnönü *

Behram Kurşunoğlu Behram Kurşunoğlu (14 March 1922 – 25 October 2003) was a Turkish physicist and the founder and the director of the Center for Theoretical Studies, University of Miami. He was best known for his works on unified field theory, energy and ...

*Gökhan Okan *Ekmel Ozbay *Turgay Uzer *Ismail Akbay *Atok Karaali-Karaali Rocks *Dilhan Eryurt

Pianists

*Fazıl Say *İdil Biret *Hüseyin Sermet *Pekinel sisters

Admirals

*Kemal Reis *Piri Reis *Seydi Ali Reis *Salih Reis *Kurtoğlu Muslihiddin Reis *Kurtoğlu Hızır Reis *Uluç Ali Reis *Tzachas

Poets

Contemporary poets

Folk poets

*Muhlis Akarsu *Nesimi Çimen *Neşet Ertaş * Aşık Veysel Şatıroğlu *Aşık Mahzuni Şerif * Zülfü Livaneli

Ottoman poets

Record producers

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Ozan Çolakoğlu Ozan Çolakoğlu (, born 1 April 1972) is a Turkish composer, songwriter and music producer; famous for his work with various Turkish pop singers and his multiple film scores. He co-founded the production company ''Sarı Ev'' (Yellow House), but ...

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Ahmet Ertegun Ahmet Ertegun (, Turkish spelling: Ahmet Ertegün; ; – December 14, 2006) was a Turkish-American businessman, songwriter, record executive and philanthropist. Ertegun was the co-founder and president of Atlantic Records. He discovered and ch ...

*Nesuhi Ertegun *Haluk Kurosman *Arif Mardin *Hasan Saltık

Religious leaders

*Mustafa Çağrıcı *Yaşar Nuri Öztürk *Ali Bardakoğlu

Rabbis

*Aaron Alfandari *Abraham ben Raphael Caro *Yaakov Culi *Ishak Haleva *Joseph ibn Verga *Aaron Lapapa *Hayim Palaggi *Judah Rosanes

Scientists

Screenwriters

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Ömer Lütfi Akad Omar/Umar ( ar, عمر) is a masculine given name that has different origins in three languages across the world (Arabic, Hebrew and Germanic) even though it is best known as an Arabic name and the name Omar was mentioned in the Old Testament. Oma ...

*Murat Aras *

Tunç Başaran Tunç Başaran (October 1, 1938 – December 18, 2019) was a Turkish screenwriter, film director, film producer and actor. Biography After attending the Faculty of Literature for a while he left school and started working as a script writer ...

*Bilge Ebiri *

Türker İnanoğlu Türker İnanoğlu (born May 18, 1936) is a Turkish screenwriter, film director and producer. Life He married first the film actress Filiz Akın, and after his divorce Gülşen Bubikoğlu, another former Turkish movie star. He has two children ...

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Semih Kaplanoğlu Semih Kaplanoğlu (born 4 April 1963) is a Turkish screenwriter, film director and producer. Life and career In 1984, Kaplanoğlu moved to Istanbul and worked for a couple of years as a copywriter for advertising companies like Güzel Sanatlar ...

*Levent Kazak *Tuncel Kurtiz *

Onat Kutlar Onat Kutlar (25 January 1936 – 11 January 1995) was a prominent Turkish writer and poet, founder of the Turkish Sinematek and cofounder of the Istanbul International Film Festival. Biography Onat Kutlar was born in Alanya, Turkey, on 25 J ...

* Ali Özgentürk *

Ferzan Özpetek Ferzan Özpetek (born 3 February 1959) is a Turkish-Italian film director and screenwriter, residing in Italy. Biography Ferzan Özpetek was born in Istanbul in 1959. In 1976, he decided to move to Italy to study Cinema History at Sapienza Unive ...

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Halit Refiğ Halit Refiğ (5 March 1934 – 11 October 2009) was a Turkish film director, film producer, screenwriter and writer. He made around sixty films, including feature films, documentaries and TV serials. He is considered to be the pioneer of t ...

* Mehmet Tanrısever *

Ümit Ünal Ümit Ünal (born 14 April 1965 in Tire, İzmir), is a film director, screenwriter and author. He is the scriptwriter for eight Turkish feature films including ''Teyzem (My Aunt)'' (1986), ''Hayallerim, Askim ve Sen (My Dreams, My Love and You)'' ...

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Atıf Yılmaz Atıf Yılmaz Batıbeki (9 December 1925 – 5 May 2006) was a renowned Turkish film director, screenwriter, and film producer. He was very much a legend in the film industry of Turkey with 119 movies directed. He also wrote 53 screenplays an ...

* Cem Yılmaz *Uğur Yücel

Singers/musicians

Sportspeople

Athletes

*Halil Akkaş *Eşref Apak *Süreyya Ayhan *Birsen Bekgöz *Ali Ferit Gören (1913-1987), Austrian-Turkish Olympic sprinter *Özge Gürler *Rıza Maksut İşman *Ebru Kavaklıoğlu *Ercüment Olgundeniz *Pınar Saka *Ruhi Sarıalp *Mehmet Terzi *Binnaz Uslu *

Nevin Yanıt Nevin Yanıt (born February 16, 1986) is a Turkish former sprinter specializing in high hurdling. On 29 August 2013, Yanit was banned from athletic competition for two years following a failed doping test in February 2013. After IAAF appealed ...

Racing drivers

*Can Artam *Erkut Kızılırmak *Hakan Dinç *Jason Tahincioglu *Mumtaz Tahincioglu *Burcu Cetinkaya

Basketball coaches

*Barbaros Akkaş *Serdar Apaydın *Ergin Ataman *Okan Çevik *Hakan Demir (coach), Hakan Demir *Murat Didin *Orhun Ene *Harun Erdenay *Yalçın Granit *Zafer Kalaycıoğlu *Ahmet Kandemir *Erman Kunter *Oktay Mahmuti *Aydın Örs *Murat Özyer *Cenk Renda *Ufuk Sarıca *Ercüment Sunter *Levent Topsakal *Arda Vekiloğlu *Ceyhun Yıldızoğlu

Basketball players

A–I

*Mustafa Abi *Tutku Açık *Can Akın *Gülşah Akkaya *Cenk Akyol *Furkan Aldemir *Hüseyin Alp *Can Altıntığ *Serdar Apaydın *Ender Arslan *Ömer Aşık *Engin Atsür *Melike Bakırcıoğlu *Doğuş Balbay *

Can Bartu Can Bartu (31 January 1936 – 11 April 2019) was a Turkish basketball and football player of Circassian origin. He was the first Turkish footballer to play a final in Europe. His statue was erected in Istanbul. After retirement, he also worked ...

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Rasim Başak Rasim Başak (born Ruslan Avleev on 17 February 1980) is a retired Azerbaijani-Turkey, Turkish professional basketball player. The power forward is 2.02 m tall and 100 kg weight and wears numbers 8. He has Russian mother and Azerbaijan, Azer ...

*Birkan Batuk *Emre Bayav * Hüseyin Beşok *Erdal Bibo *Metecan Birsen *Evren Büker *Ömer Büyükaycan *Hüsnü Çakırgil *Arda Vekiloğlu *

Özhan Canaydın Özhan Canaydın (23 January 1943 – 22 March 2010) was a businessman, basketballer and former chairman of the Turkish sports club Galatasaray. Biography Basketball career Canaydın began to play professional basketball in 1958. In 1957, he be ...

*Berkay Candan *Serhat Çetin *

Nedim Dal Nedim Dal (born Edin Delić; on 3 May 1975) is a retired Turkish basketball player. He stands 2.14 m tall and played as a center Center or centre may refer to: Mathematics *Center (geometry), the middle of an object * Center (algebra), used ...

*Begüm Dalgalar *Hakan Demirel *İpek Derici *Kemal Dinçer *Şafak Edge *Selin Ekiz *Orhun Ene *Korel Engin *Burcu Erbaş *

Semih Erden Semih Erden (born July 28, 1986) is a Turkish professional basketball player for Türk Telekom of the Basketbol Süper Ligi (BSL). Standing at , he plays at the center position. Professional career Early years Erden played with Darüşşafaka in ...

*Harun Erdenay *Serkan Erdoğan *Barış Ermiş *Erbil Eroğlu *Tufan Ersöz *Murat Evliyaoğlu *Duygu Fırat *Samet Geyik *Kerem Gönlüm *Zeki Gülay *Muratcan Güler *Sinan Güler *Barış Hersek *Yasemin Horasan *Ersan İlyasova *

Serkan İnan Serkan Inan (born 5 November 1986) is a Swedish-Turkish professional basketball player who currently plays for the AIK of the Swedish 2nd division North Svealand. He has previously played for multiple teams in the Turkish Basketball League. Profe ...

*Tuğçe İnöntepe *Şaziye İvegin-Karslı

J–Z

*Zafer Kalaycıoğlu *Enes Kanter *İlkan Karaman *Michael Wright (basketball), Ali Karadeniz *Aysu Keskin *Deniz Kılıçlı *Şebnem Kimyacıoğlu *Yasemin Kimyacıoğlu *İnanç Koç *Can Korkmaz *Göksenin Köksal *Ermal Kurtoğlu *İbrahim Kutluay *Tuğçe Murat *Can Maxim Mutaf *Cemal Nalga *

Mehmet Okur Mehmet Murat Okur (born 26 May 1979) is a Turkish former professional basketball player. Listed at , he played as a power forward and center. Okur is known for his three-point shooting and ability to space the floor. In his seven seasons wit ...

*Ömer Onan *Adem Ören *Aydın Örs *Kartal Özmızrak *Cedi Osman *Tamer Oyguç *Cevher Özer *Aytaç Özkul *Arzu Özyiğit *Bora Hun Paçun *Kaya Peker *Nalan Ramazanoğlu *Cenk Renda *Ceren Sarper *Alper Saruhan *Oğuz Savaş *Kenan Sipahi *Fatih Solak *Ümit Sonkol *Sertaç Şanlı *Caner Topaloğlu *Levent Topsakal *Kerem Tunçeri *Esmeral Tunçluer *

Mirsad Türkcan Mirsad Türkcan (born Mirsad Jahović, sr-cyr, Мирсад Јаховић; on June 7, 1976) is a Turkish former professional basketball player of Bosniak origin. Standing at a height of , he played at the power forward position. A three-time Al ...

* Hidayet Türkoğlu *İzzet Türkyılmaz *Henry Turner (basketball), Henry Turner *Berk Uğurlu *Birsel Vardarlı *Erkan Veyseloğlu *Mehmet Yağmur *Meriç Banu Yenal *Nilay Yiğit *Haluk Yıldırım *Aylin Yıldızoğlu *Alper Yılmaz *Nevriye Yılmaz *Nedim Yücel *Serap Yücesir *Müjde Yüksel

Carom billiards players

*Gülşen Degener *Semih Saygıner

Bodybuilders

*Ahmet Enünlü *Cemal Erçman

Boxers

*Serdar Avcı *Selçuk Aydın *Turgut Aykaç *Malik Beyleroğlu *Eyüp Can (boxer), Eyüp Can *Buse Naz Çakıroğlu *Orhan Delibaş *Şennur Demir *Ertuğrul Ergezen *Yakup Kılıç *Adem Kılıççı *Abdülkadir Koçak *Ramaz Paliani *

Sinan Şamil Sam Sinan Şamil Sam (23 June 1974 – 30 October 2015) was a Turkish heavyweight professional boxer( Azerbaijani origin). As a professional boxer, Sam won the EBU,WBC international and WBC Mediterranean titles in the heavyweight division. According ...

*Onder Sipal *Nurhan Süleymanoğlu *Busenaz Sürmeneli *Gülsüm Tatar *Oktay Urkal *Atagün Yalçınkaya

Chess players

*Suat Atalık *Tunç Hamarat

Fencers

* İrem Karamete (born 1993), Olympic fencer

Field hockey

*Timur Oruz *Selin Oruz

Football managers

A–M

*Erdoğan Arıca *

Cihat Arman Cihat Arman (1915 in Istanbul – May 14, 1994 in Istanbul), was a Turkish football goalkeeper and manager. He represented Turkey at the 1936 Summer Olympics and the 1948 Summer Olympics. Biography Arman started playing club football at th ...

*Abdullah Avcı *Samet Aybaba *Eşfak Aykaç *Giray Bulak *Rıza Çalımbay *Oğuz Çetin *Raşit Çetiner *Mustafa Denizli *Rıdvan Dilmen *Ziya Doğan *Bülent Eken *Muhsin Ertuğral *Fuat Çapa *Şenol Güneş *Ömer Kaner *Rasim Kara *Hikmet Karaman *Ünal Karaman *Suat Kaya *Erdal Keser *Gündüz Kılıç *Aykut Kocaman *Bülent Korkmaz *Güvenç Kurtar *Cemşir Muratoğlu

N–Z

*Coşkun Özarı *Arkoç Özcan *Yasin Özdenak *Ertuğrul Sağlam *Nurullah Sağlam *Tugay Semercioğlu *Naci Şensoy *Turgay Şeren *Adnan Suvari *Metin Tekin *Hurser Tekinoktay *Fatih Terim *Tınaz Tırpan *Metin Türel *Ümit Turmuş *Serpil Hamdi Tüzün *Feyyaz Uçar *Turgut Uçar *Telat Üzüm *Yılmaz Vural *Murat Yakın *Fuat Yaman *Ersun Yanal *Ali Sami Yen *Hakkı Yeten *Tayfur Havutçu *Fevzi Zemzem

Footballers

A

*Onur Acar *Olcan Adın *Aytaç Ak *Orhan Ak *Muhammed Akagündüz *Bülent Akın *İbrahim Akın *Serhat Akın *Fırat Akkoyun *Ayhan Akman *Birol Aksancak *Altan Aksoy *Cafercan Aksu *Emre Aktaş *Metin Aktaş *Ercan Aktuna *Fatih Akyel *Murat Akyüz *Mehmet Akyüz *Erhan Albayrak *Adem Alkaşi *Ünal Alpuğan *Halil Altıntop *Hamit Altıntop *Yusuf Altuntaş *Ogün Altıparmak *Erdoğan Arıca *Hakan Arıkan *

Cihat Arman Cihat Arman (1915 in Istanbul – May 14, 1994 in Istanbul), was a Turkish football goalkeeper and manager. He represented Turkey at the 1936 Summer Olympics and the 1948 Summer Olympics. Biography Arman started playing club football at th ...

*Volkan Arslan *Kemal Aslan *Metin Aslan *Emre Aşık *Çağdaş Atan *Necati Ateş *Yasin Avcı (footballer born 1983), Yasin Avcı *Koray Avcı (footballer), Koray Avcı *İbrahim Aydemir *Erhan Aydın *Necat Aygün *Devran Ayhan *Yalçın Ayhan *Eşfak Aykaç *Serkan Aykut *Gündüz Gürol Azer

B–C

*Volkan Babacan *Ediz Bahtiyaroğlu *Alper Balaban *Serkan Balcı *Hakan Balta *Deniz Barış *

Can Bartu Can Bartu (31 January 1936 – 11 April 2019) was a Turkish basketball and football player of Circassian origin. He was the first Turkish footballer to play a final in Europe. His statue was erected in Istanbul. After retirement, he also worked ...

*Yıldıray Baştürk *Özgür Bayer *Deniz Baykara *Sedat Bayrak *Hakan Bayraktar *Emre Belözoğlu *Ferhat Bıkmaz *Recep Biler *Ali Bilgin *Coşkun Birdal *Zafer Biryol *Bülent Bölükbaşı *Uğur Boral *Mehmet Budak *Erol Bulut *Umut Bulut *Okan Buruk *Adem Büyük *Musa Büyük *Mehmet Çakır *Yasin Çakmak *Serkan Çalik *Oğuz Çalışkan *Cihan Can * Ömer Çatkıç *Yasin Çelik *Oğuz Çetin *Recep Çetin *

Servet Çetin Servet Çetin (born 17 March 1981) is a Turkish Association football, footballer who last played for Mersin Idmanyurdu in the Süper Lig. He received the nickname ''Ayıboğan'' which literally means; ''a man who could choke a bear'', due to his ...

*Mustafa Cevahir *Orhan Çıkırıkçı *Daniyel Cimen *Hüseyin Çimşir *Ferhat Çökmüş *Tanju Çolak *Tayfun Çora *Olgay Coskun *Bilal Çubukçu

D–E

*Ekrem Dağ *Oğuz Dağlaroğlu *Ilie Datcu *Ümit Davala *Aykut Demir *Cem Demir *Taner Demirbaş *Volkan Demirel *Serol Demirhan *Christian Demirtas *Mustafa Denizli *Abdurrahman Dereli *Oktay Derelioğlu *Rıdvan Dilmen *Basri Dirimlili *Deniz Doğan *Hüzeyfe Doğan *Ziya Doğan *Osman Kürşat Duman *Adem Dursun *Ahmet Dursun *Murat Duruer *Kürşat Duymuş *Ibrahim Ege *Bülent Eken *Ferdi Elmas *Fevzi Elmas *Alpaslan Eratlı *Abdullah Ercan *Aykut Erçetin *Arif Erdem *Mülayim Erdem *Naci Erdem *Evren Erdeniz *Mevlüt Erdinç *Mert Erdoğan * Murat Erdoğan *Mahmut Hanefi Erdoğdu *Emrah Eren *Ceyhun Eriş *Adnan Erkan *Caner Erkin *Rober Eryol

F–J

*Berkant Göktan *Gökhan Gönül *Şanver Göymen *Hürriyet Güçer *Şükrü Gülesin *Ceyhun Gülselam *Ali Güneş *Şenol Güneş *Serdar Güneş *Emre Güngör (Turkish footballer), Emre Güngör *Gürhan Gürsoy *Mehmet Güven *Emrullah Güvenç *Serdal Güvenç *Sercan Güvenışık * Umut Güzelses *Murat Hacıoğlu *Hamza Hamzaoğlu *Şeref Has *Tayfur Havutçu *Topuz Hikmet *Hakkı Hocaoğlu *Özer Hurmacı *Efe İnanç *Vedat İnceefe *Uğur İnceman *Engin İpekoğlu *Bekir İrtegün *Cenk İşler *

Kemal İzzet Kemal "Kem" Izzet (; born 29 September 1980) is an English football coach and former professional player. He most notably played for Colchester United between 2001 and 2013, where he made over 400 league appearances. He was previously on the b ...

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Muzzy İzzet Mustafa Kemal "Muzzy" Izzet (; tr, İzzet; born 31 October 1974) is a former professional footballer who played as a midfielder for Chelsea, Leicester City, Birmingham City. Born in England, he represented the Turkey national team internatio ...

K–L

*Hasan Kabze *Tolunay Kafkas *İlyas Kahraman *Nihat Kahveci *Sinan Kaloğlu *Ömer Kaner *Jem Karacan *

Azar Karadaş Azar Karadas ( tr, Azar Karadaş; born 9 August 1981) is a Norwegian former footballer. Although he could also play as a central defender, he operated primarily as a centre forward. He had three spells with Brann, where he began and ended hi ...

*Batuhan Karadeniz *Gökdeniz Karadeniz *Burak Karaduman *Anıl Karaer *Ümit Karan *Arif Karaoğlan *Levent Kartop *Veli Kavlak *Uğur Kavuk *Onur Kaya *Suat Kaya *Colin Kazim-Richards *Tugay Kerimoğlu *Erdal Keser *Mustafa Keçeli *Gündüz Kılıç *Zafer Kılıçkan *Serkan Kırıntılı *Bilal Kısa *Mehmet Sarper Kiskaç *Ferhat Kıskanç *Okan Koç *Adem Koçak *Celaleddin Koçak *Aykut Kocaman *Ender Konca *Egemen Korkmaz *Mert Korkmaz *Tayfun Korkut *Tevfik Köse *Serdar Kulbilge *Ramazan Kurşunlu *Serdar Kurtuluş *Ahmet Kuru *Uğur Arslan Kuru *Erhan Kuşkapan *Hakan Kutlu

M–Q

*Hami Mandıralı *İlhan Mansız *Baki Mercimek *Tümer Metin *Murat Ocak *Metin Oktay *Ali Ölmez *Özden Öngün *Alpay Özalan *Coşkun Özarı *Ümit Özat *Barış Özbek *Arkoç Özcan *Özgürcan Özcan *Mehmet Özdilek *Kenan Özer *Zafer Özgültekın *Nesim Özgür *Mesut Özil *Mustafa Özkan *Serdar Özkan *Osman Özköylü *Serkan Özsoy *Ferhat Öztorun *Okan Öztürk *Sezer Öztürk * Yüsüf Öztürk *Emre Öztürk (footballer born 1986), Emre Öztürk *Cem Pamiroğlu *İlhan Parlak *Ergün Penbe *Necmi Perekli

R–T

*Rüştü Reçber *

Omer Riza Omer Karime Ali Riza (born 8 November 1979) is a former footballer who is a coach at Watford's academy. Riza, who played as a forward, featured for English clubs Arsenal and West Ham United, Holland's Ado Den Haag and Turkish outfits Trabzons ...

*Oğuz Sabankay *Ertuğrul Sağlam *Mahir Sağlık *Selçuk Şahin (footballer born 1981), Selçuk Şahin *Zafer Şakar *

Saffet Sancaklı Saffet Sancaklı ( sr-Cyrl, Сафет Санџакли, Safet Sandžakli; born 27 February 1966) is a Turkish former international footballer and current politician. He is a deputy of Nationalist Movement Party, representing city of Kocaeli ...

*Tuncay (footballer), Tuncay *Burhan Sargın *Adem Sarı *Sabri Sarıoğlu *Yüksel Sariyar *Hasan Şaş *Halil Savran *Mehmet Scholl *Mehmet Sedef *Turgay Semercioğlu *Ziya Şengül *Semih Şentürk *Mehmet Kutay Şenyıl *Ömer Sepici *Turgay Şeren *Tayfun Seven *Tolga Seyhan *Suleyman Sleyman *Fatih Sonkaya *Yusuf Soysal *Zeki Rıza Sporel *Hakan Şükür *Elyasa Süme *Feridun Sungur *Ali Tandoğan *Kaya Tarakçı *Anıl Taşdemir *Fahri Tatan *Metin Tekin *Fatih Tekke *Ogün Temizkanoğlu *Fatih Terim *Mehmet Topal *Mehmet Topuz *İbrahim Toraman *Murat Tosun *Ramazan Tunç *Fevzi Tuncay *Onur Tuncer *Önder Turacı *Arda Turan *Cemil Turan *Suat Türker *Uğur Tütüneker

U–Z

*Feyyaz Uçar *Uğur Uçar *Hasan Üçüncü *Gökhan Ünal *Volkan Ünlü *Hakan Ünsal *Orkun Usak *Suat Usta *Engin Verel *Aytekin Viduşlu *Wederson *Lev Yalcin *Sergen Yalçın *Volkan Yaman *Erdinç Yavuz *Zafer Yelen *Sedat Yeşilkaya *Hakkı Yeten *Müjdat Yetkiner *Faruk Yiğit *Mehmet Yıldız *Yıldo *Aydın Yılmaz *Burak Yılmaz *Deniz Yilmaz *Mehmet Yılmaz (striker), Mehmet Yılmaz (striker) *Mehmet Yılmaz (defender), Mehmet Yılmaz (defender) *Okan Yılmaz *Özgür Yılmaz (footballer), Özgür Yılmaz *Hüseyin Yoğurtçu *Muhammet Hanifi Yoldaş *Mehmet Yozgatlı *Can Emre Yücel *Selçuk Yula *Rahim Zafer *Gökhan Zan *Fevzi Zemzem *Kerim Zengin *Tolga Zengin

Gymnasts

*Ferhat Arıcan *İbrahim Çolak (gymnast) *Duygu Doğan *Göksu Üçtaş Şanlı *Ümit Şamiloğlu *Ayşe Begüm Onbaşı *Dilara Yurtdaş *Ahmet Önder

Martial artists

Judoka

*Salim Abanoz *Derya Cıbır *Bektaş Demirel *Sezer Huysuz *Belkıs Zehra Kaya *Gülşah Kocatürk *Cemal Oğuz *Hüseyin Özkan *Hülya Şenyurt *Selim Tataroğlu *Irfan Toker *Iraklı Uznadze *Özgür Yılmaz (judoka), Özgür Yılmaz

Karateka

*Haldun Alagaş *Ugur Aktas (karateka) *Yıldız Aras *Merve Coban *Gülderen Çelik *Ömer Kemaloğlu *Tuba Yakan *Serap Özçelik

Kickboxers

*Erhan Deniz *Murat Direkçi *Yeliz Fındık *Gülşah Kıyak *Asiye Özlem Şahin *Hülya Şahin *Gökhan Saki *Şahin Yakut

Mixed martial artists

*Gökhan Saki *Alptekin Özkiliç

Muay Thai practitioners

*Ayşegül Behlivan *Yeliz Fındık *Nurhayat Hiçyakmazer

Taekwondo practitioners

*Yeliz Fındık *Azize Tanrıkulu *Bahri Tanrıkulu *Nur Tatar *Servet Tazegül *Çetin Topçuoğlu *Hamide Bıkçın Tosun

Wrestlers

*Riza Kayaalp *Taha Akgül *Yaşar Doğu *Hergeleci Ibrahim *Şeref Eroğlu

Wushu practitioners

*Ayşegül Behlivan *Lehize Hilal Benli *Hüseyin Dündar *Yeliz Fındık *Nurhayat Hiçyakmazer *Gülşah Kıyak *Öznur Kızıl

Motorcycle racers

*Bahattin Sofuoğlu *Kenan Sofuoğlu *Sinan Sofuoğlu

Mountain climbers

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Nasuh Mahruki Ali Nasuh Mahruki (born 21 May 1968) is a professional mountain climber, writer, photographer and documentary film producer. An all-round outdoor sportsman, he climbed to the summit of Mount Everest and was the first ever Turkish person to cli ...

*Eylem Elif Maviş *Burçak Özoğlu Poçan *Serhan Poçan *Uğur Uluocak

Olympic competitors for Turkey

*Eşref Apak *Sedat Artuç *Süreyya Ayhan *Ahmet Ayık *Kelime Aydın *Selçuk Aydın * Kazım Ayvaz *Mithat Bayrak *Derya Büyükuncu *Mustafa Dağıstanlı *Bektaş Demirel *Mete Gazoz *Rıza Maksut İşman *Ebru Kavaklıoğlu *Muhammet Kızılarslan *Halil Mutlu *Sebahattin Oglago *Ruhi Sarıalp *Naim Süleymanoğlu *Şule Şahbaz (weightlifter), Şule Şahbaz *Hamit Şare *Uğur Taner *Selim Tataroğlu *Nurcan Taylan *Hamide Bıkçın Tosun *Duygu Ulusoy *Iraklı Uznadze *Atagün Yalçınkaya

Swimmers

*Derya Büyükuncu *Emre Sakçı *Uğur Taner

Tennis players

*Çağla Büyükakçay *Marsel İlhan *Pemra Özgen *Melis Sezer *İpek Soylu *İpek Şenoğlu

Volleyball players

*Çağla Akın *Kübra Akman *Naz Aydemir Akyol *Hande Baladın *Emre Batur *Neslihan Demir *Alperay Demirciler *Eda Erdem *Gizem Güreşen *Ebrar Karakurt *Buse Kayacan *Resul Tekeli *Murat Yenipazar *Halil İbrahim Yücel *Özge Yurtdagülen *Güldeniz Önal *Gizem Örge *Özlem Özçelik *Neriman Özsoy

Weightlifters

Wrestlers

*Nasuh Akar *Mahmut Atalay *Celal Atik * İsmet Atlı *Ahmet Ayık * Kazım Ayvaz *Mithat Bayrak *Ahmet Bilek *Gazanfer Bilge *Nuri Boytorun *Mehmet Çoban *Mustafa Dağıstanlı *Mahmut Demir *Yaşar Doğu *Yaşar Erkan *Şeref Eroğlu *Hasan Gemici *Hasan Güngör *Hamit Kaplan * Ahmet Kireççi *Tevfik Kış *Kurtdereli Mehmet Pehlivan *İsmail Ogan *Mehmet Oktav *Mehmet Özal *Mehmet Akif Pirim *Müzahir Sille *Bayram Şit *Tayyar Yalaz *Hamza Yerlikaya

Sculptors

*Mehmet Aksoy (sculptor) *Tankut Öktem *Sevgi Çağal *Kamil Sonad *kenan Yontunç

Songwriters

*Barış Manço *

Cem Adrian Cem Filiz (born 30 November 1980), better known by his stage name Cem Adrian, is a Turkish musician of Bosniak origin, singer-songwriter and record producer. Early life His father was a merchant, while his mother was a housewife. Adrian was born ...

*Sezen Aksu *

Mazhar Alanson Mahmut Mazhar Alanson (born February 13, 1950) is a Turkish musician, guitarist, member of the popular Turkish pop music band MFÖ, and an actor. Early life He was born on February 13, 1950, to a family of musicians in Ankara, Turkey, wher ...

*Aslı *

Aydilge Aydilge Sarp (born June 25, 1979) is a Turkish writer, poet and singer-songwriter. Biography Aydilge Sarp was born in 1979 in Kütahya, Turkey. Her Circassians, Circassian mother, Faika Özer writes poetry and novels, with a release of more than ...

*Emre Aydın *Yavuz Bingöl *Kenan Doğulu *Feridun Düzağaç *Sertab Erener *

Şebnem Ferah Şebnem Ferah (born 12 April 1972) is a Turkish singer, songwriter, composer, and guitarist. She was the lead vocalist of the all-female hard rock band Volvox until 1994, after which she went on to pursue an illustrious solo career. Her music s ...

*Orhan Gencebay *Nil Karaibrahimgil *Kayahan *Kıraç (singer), Kıraç *Kâzım Koyuncu *Burak Kut * Zülfü Livaneli *Zeki Müren *Nazan Öncel *Serdar Ortaç *Bülent Ortaçgil *Tarkan (singer), Tarkan *Ferdi Tayfur *Özlem Tekin *Hande Yener *Levent Yüksel

Television personalities

*Okan Bayülgen *

Hakan Celik Hakan is a common Turkish forename, based on the Turkish language variant of the imperial title Khagan. The name is also spelled Khakan or Khaqan in other parts of the world, with the same etymology. Given name *Ahmet Hakan Coşkun (born 1967 ...

*Arda Öcal *

Deniz Orhun Deniz Orhun (born 1974) is a chef, media personality and businesswoman. Chef Deniz graduated from Ankara University-Department of Agriculture Engineering, she completed her MBA Master's degree at London College and Hacettepe University. She wo ...

Television presenters

*Ali İhsan Varol *

Deniz Orhun Deniz Orhun (born 1974) is a chef, media personality and businesswoman. Chef Deniz graduated from Ankara University-Department of Agriculture Engineering, she completed her MBA Master's degree at London College and Hacettepe University. She wo ...

*Mehmet Ali Birand *Okan Bayülgen *

Reha Muhtar Reha Muhtar (born 21 July 1959) is a Turkish anchorman, columnist and television reporter of Iraqi Turkmen descent. He was first seen on TV as TRT's reporter from Turkey, Istanbul. Later he started hosting a debate program at show tv "''Ateş ...

*Şebnem Dönmez *Uğur Dündar *Zeynep Tokuş

Others

* Bajkam, military commander * Sadun Boro, sailor and global circumnavigator * Ahmet the Calligrapher, saint * Hasan Çelebi, calligrapher * Nejat Eczacıbaşı, pharmaceutical entrepreneur * Hadi Elazzi, talent manager * İlhan Erdost, publisher * Erden Eruç, completed first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the Earth by rowboat, sea kayak, bicycle and foot * Kara Fatma, female hero * Ghias ad-Din, was a member of the Seljuq dynasty of Rum * Levent Kazak, scriptwriter *

Nasuh Mahruki Ali Nasuh Mahruki (born 21 May 1968) is a professional mountain climber, writer, photographer and documentary film producer. An all-round outdoor sportsman, he climbed to the summit of Mount Everest and was the first ever Turkish person to cli ...

, first Turkish summiter of Mt. Everest * Janet Akyüz Mattei, astronomer * Tatikios (c. 1048 - died after 1110), Byzantine general * Neyzen Tevfik, neyzen

Actors

Academics

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Architects

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Artists

Authors

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C–G

H–Q

R–Z

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