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List Of Turkish Mathematicians
This is a list of WP:Notability, notable Turkish people, or the Turks, (Turkish: Türkler), who are an ethnic group primarily living in the republic of Turkey and in the former lands of the Ottoman Empire where Turkish minorities have been established. They include people of Turkish descent born in other countries whose roots are in those countries. For Ottoman Empire, Ottoman people see List of Ottoman people. Academics Archaeologists *K. Aslihan Yener, Aslıhan Yener *Hatice Gonnet-Bağana *Halet Çambel *Muhibbe Darga *Nurettin Yardımcı *Sedat Alp *Selâhattin Kantar *Tahsin Özgüç *Tomris Bakır Architects Art Gallerists * Yahşi Baraz (born 1944) Artists Authors A–B * Yunus Nadi Abalıoğlu * Sait Faik Abasıyanık * Halide Edib Adıvar * Ahmet Ağaoğlu * Süreyya Ağaoğlu * Zeynep Ahunbay * Yusuf Akçura * Sunay Akın * Muammer Aksoy * Mustafa Akyol * Alev Alatlı * Sabahattin Ali * Fikri Alican * Ahmet Altan * Çetin Altan * İhsan Okt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Süreyya Ağaoğlu
Süreyya Ağaoğlu (1903 – 29 December 1989) 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 Africa'. Scarecrow Press; 19 December 2012. . p. 355–.Fahri Sakal. Ağaoğlu Ahmed Bey'. Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi; 1999. . p. 13, 47, 62. Early life and education Ağaoğlu was the daughter of Ahmet Ağaoğlu, a prominent Azerbaijani and later Turkish politician of the early 20th century.İbrahim Sarı. Türk Tarihinde Kadın: Türklerde Kadın Baş Tacıydı…'. noktaekitap; 1 March 2018. GGKEY:9RDRN2BTDSL. p. 93–. After the fall of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic in 1920, the Ağaoğlus moved to Turkey where Süreyya enrolled in the Faculty of Law at Istanbul University.Bekir Bakan. Türkiye'deki Kadın Hak İhlalleri'. Cinius Yayınları; 1 June 2012. . p. 148–. Career After graduation Ağaoğlu worked as a lawyer from 1927 to her death in 1989. In 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Engin Ardıç
Engin Ardıç (1 February 1952 – 27 May 2023) was 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 the northern Black Sea shore of Anatolia. After movıng to Istanbul at an early age due to his parents' jobs, he spent his childhood mostly in Beşiktaş. In 1959, he was admitted to the elementary section of Galatasaray High School. Following his graduation from Galatasaray High School, Ardıç entered Boğaziçi University and graduated with a degree in political science. Because of his interest in theater, his first writings in the early 1970s were mostly theater reviews for the magazine ''Tiyatro'' (Theater). He also wrote literary critiques in '' Yeni Dergi'' (New Magazine), ''Politika'' (Politics) and ''Cumhuriyet'' (The Republic). Until his death, he was a columnist for the Sabah newspaper. His writing style often containe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melih Cevdet Anday
Melih Cevdet Anday (13 March 1915 – 28 November 2002) was a Turkish people, 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 poems, eight plays, eight novels, fifteen collections of essays, several of which won major literary awards. He also translated several books from diverse languages into Turkish. Biography Melih Cevdet Anday was born in Istanbul in 1915 and lived there until his parents moved to Ankara in 1931. He graduated from Gazi High School and for a while began studying sociology in Belgium on a State Railways scholarship but had to return home in 1940 after the German invasion. Between 1942 and 1951 he worked as a publication consultant for the Ministry of Education in Ankara and then as a city librarian. During this time he began his career as a journalist for several newspapers. After 1954, he worked as a teacher for the Istanbul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 on undergraduate (1984), graduate (1989) and doctoral levels. Anar now teaches at the same university, lecturing in antique philosophy and Greek. In 2009, he won the Erdal Öz Literature Award "for his valuable novels and original style". Anar published his first novel, The Atlas of Misty Continents (''Puslu Kıtalar Atlası'') in 1995. The book was translated to a number of languages, including French, German and Hungarian, and a comic book version by caricaturist İlban Ertem was released in Spring of 2015. His novels are fantasy pieces supported by historical facts and rumors especially related to the Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire (), also called the Turkish Empire, was an empire, imperial realm that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 born on 22 June 1927 to lawyer Halit Bey of Crimean Tatar descent and his wife Nurhayat. Until age seven, he was called Altan. With the adoption of the Surname Law in Turkey in 1934, the family chose the name Altan as their surname, and the son was renamed Çetin. At age eight, he was schooled in the elite Galatasaray High School as a boarding pupil, where he suffered from loneliness. After graduating from the high school, he received a degree from the Ankara University, Law School. He chose a writing career instead of pursuing a diplomatic career contrary to his father's will as he related once in an interview "to escape the loneliness". Family life Çetin Altan grew up in the family mansion at Göztepe, Istanbul. He married Kerim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 newspapers. Biography He was born in 1950 in Ankara, Turkey to the notable journalist and writer Çetin Altan as the first of two sons. His brother Mehmet Altan is also a journalist, writer and university professor of political economy. Career In addition to having written columns in several Turkish newspapers, including ''Hürriyet'', ''Milliyet'' and ''Radikal'', Altan has produced news programming for television. He was fired from ''Milliyet'' after writing a column on 17 April 1995 titled "Atakürt", which presented an alternate history of Turkey as a Kurdish state ("Kürdiye") in which ethnic Turks are oppressed and forced to assimilate. For the same column he received a suspended sentence to an imprisonment of 1 year and 8 months and fine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 in northwestern Turkey, 150 km east of Istanbul. He left his hometown after middle school, attending high school and college in Istanbul, where he graduated from Robert College with a B.S. (1949) and from Istanbul University with an M.D. (1955). He did his residency at the Istanbul University Medical Center's Clinic of Treatment and Exploratory Surgery, also known as Surgical Clinic #4, headed by Şinasi Hakkı Erel. It is there that he met his future wife, Halide Ihlamur, later Halide Alican, a surgical nurse working at the same clinic. After completing his residency in general surgery at Istanbul University, his growing interest in the field of organ transplantation, then in its heyday, took him to Jackson, Mississippi, where he joine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sabahattin Ali
Sabahattin Ali (25 February 1907 – 2 April 1948) was a Turkish people, Turkish novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. Early life He was born in 1907 in Ardino, Eğridere township (now Ardino in southern Bulgaria) of the Sanjak of Gümülcine (now Komotini in northern Greece), in the Ottoman Empire. His father was an Ottoman officer, Selahattin Ali, and his mother Husniye. His father's family was from the Black Sea region. He lived in Istanbul, Çanakkale and Edremit, Balıkesir, Edremit before he entered the Teacher School in Balıkesir. His elementary and middle school education was interrupted by WWI, contributing to his difficult childhood. Then he was transferred from Balikesir to the School of Education in Istanbul, where he graduated in 1926 with a teacher's certificate. His various poems and short stories were published in the school’s student paper. After serving as a teacher in Yozgat for one year, he earned a fellowship from the Ministry of Nation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alev Alatlı
Alev Alatlı (16 September 1944 – 2 February 2024) was a Turkish columnist, bestselling novelist, academician and economist. Early years Alev Alatlı was born on 16 September 1944 in the town of Menemen, İzmir to an officer's family. She spent her childhood in Japan, where her father was appointed as the Military attaché in the Embassy of Turkey and also as the Liaison officer of the Turkish Brigade in Korea to the United Nations. Alatlı attended the American School in Japan in Nakameguro, Tokyo. After finishing high school there, her family returned to Turkey, and Alev studied economics at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, from where she graduated in 1963 with a Bachelor of Science degree. Following graduation, she married her classmate Alper Orhon, a Turkish Cypriot. She was granted a Fulbright Scholarship and her husband a scholarship from the Ford Foundation to conduct postgraduate study in the USA. Educated at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mustafa Akyol
Mustafa Akyol (born 20 February 1972) is a Turkish writer, intellectual, and journalist. Notable for his advocacy on reform on blasphemy, apostasy and gender relations in the Muslim world, he has been called “probably the most notable Muslim modernist and reformer”. Career Akyol has written regular columns for Turkish dailies like ''Hürriyet Daily News''. He has criticized both Islamic extremism and Turkish secularism, which he likened to Jacobinism and fundamentalism. Akyol's earlier articles in Turkish newspapers were often friendly to the incumbent Justice and Development Party (AKP). In later commentary in a U.S. newspaper, he criticised the party's governance as having "adopted the very authoritarian habits it used to oppose" and thus having "failed as a model of liberal Islamism." He also spoke at TED, giving a lecture on "Faith versus tradition in Islam". Akyol is also author of the English-language book ''Islam Without Extremes: A Muslim Case For Liberty'' (W.W. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muammer Aksoy
Muammer Aksoy (1917 – January 31, 1990) was a Turkish lawyer, politician, columnist and intellectual who was assassinated. Biography Aksoy was born 1917 in İbradı, Konya vilayet (now Antalya Province) to the member of the Ottoman parliament Numan Aksoy. After his graduation from the Law School at Istanbul University in 1939, he earned 1950 his Doctor of Law degree in the Faculty of Law and State Sciences at the University of Zurich. Returned to Turkey, he worked as an assistant in commercial law at Istanbul University and then as an associate professor in civil law at Ankara University. Muammer Aksoy quit his post in 1957 because he felt that the newly enacted university law would limit the academic liberty at the university, and entered his political life by joining the Republican People's Party (CHP). After the military coup in 1960, he returned to Ankara University to lecture constitutional law. He collaborated on the preparation the Constitution of 1961. In the mid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
