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{{Short description, none Below is a list of notable Turkish academics.


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* Daron Acemoğlu *
Tülay Adalı Tülay Adalı is a Distinguished University Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, whose research interests include signal processing, machine learning, and data fusion.
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Halide Edib Adıvar Halide Edip Adıvar ( , sometimes spelled Halidé Edib in English; 11 June 1884 – 9 January 1964) was a Turkish people, Turkish novelist, teacher, and a nationalist and Feminism, feminist intellectual. She was best known for her novels criticiz ...
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Erhan Afyoncu Erhan Afyoncu (born 1967, in Tokat) is a Turkish historian, writer, academician, television programmer and columnist. Rector of the National Defense University. Personal life He saw his primary and secondary education in Tokat, the place of birth. ...
* Mehmet Aga-Oglu *
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 history ...
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Şükrü Halûk Akalın Şükrü Halûk Akalın (born 22 January 1956) is a retired Turkish academic and bureaucrat who served as head of the Turkish Language Association (TLA) from 2001 to 2012. Early life and education Akalın was born in Adana on 22 January 1956. H ...
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Ali Akansu Ali Naci Akansu (born May 6, 1958) is a Turkish-American professor of electrical & computer engineering and scientist in applied mathematics. He is best known for his contributions to the theory and applications of linear subspace methods includ ...
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Selman Akbulut Selman Akbulut (born 1949) is a Turkish mathematician, specializing in research in topology, and geometry. He was a professor at Michigan State University until February 2020. Career In 1975, he earned his Ph.D. from the University of Californi ...
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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'' ...
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Yalçın Akdoğan Yalçın Akdoğan (born 22 September 1969) is a Turkish politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey from 2014 to 2016. A member of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), Akdoğan became a Member of Parliament representing ...
* Mustafa Akgül *
Derya Akkaynak Derya Akkaynak is a Turkish mechanical engineer and oceanographer at the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute. She was a 2019 finalist for the Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists. Early life and education Akkaynak is from the Aegean coast ...
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Fevzi Aksoy Fevzi Aksoy (1 May 1930 – 28 March 2020) was a Turkish sports writer, medical doctor, neurologist and academic. He graduated from Pertevniyal High School in 1947. He continued his education at the Istanbul University Faculty of Medicine and gr ...
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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 parliame ...
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İrşadi Aksun M. İrşadi Aksun (born 5 April 1957) is a Turkish professor of electrical and electronics engineering and the dean of College of Engineering at Koç University. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Middle East Technical University ...
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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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Mete Akyol Mete Akyol (1935, Ordu - 2 November 2016, Istanbul) was a Turkish journalist. Akyol studied in Talas American Junior High school and Tarsus American High school. He graduated from the English Literature section of Ankara University in 1960. ...
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Türkan Akyol Peyman Türkan Akyol (September 12, 1928 – September 7, 2017) was a Turkish politician, physician and academic. She was the first Turkish female government minister, and the first female university rector in Turkey. Early life Türkan Akyo ...
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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 in ...
* Ahmet Alkan * Ahmet Vefik Alp *
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 presiden ...
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Mehmet Altan Mehmet Hasan Altan (born 11 January 1953) is a Turkish academic economist, journalist, and author of over 25 books. Describing himself as a "Marxist-liberal", he is the originator of the term "Second Republic", arguing that Turkey needs to reco ...
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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 t ...
* Oya Araslı *
Cahit Arf Cahit Arf (; 24 October 1910 – 26 December 1997) was a Turkish people, Turkish mathematician. He is known for the Arf invariant of a quadratic form in characteristic (algebra), characteristic 2 (applied in knot theory and surgery theory) in ...
* Erdal Arıkan * Engin Arık *
Attila Aşkar Attila Aşkar (born September 4, 1943) is a Turkish civil engineer, scientist and former president of the Koç University in Rumelifeneri, Istanbul, Turkey during 2001 and 2009. Life Attila Aşkar was born on September 4, 1943 in Afyonkarahisar, ...
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Tomur Atagök Tomur Atagök (6 May 1939 – 27 March 2025) was a Turkish painter, musicologist, author and academic. Early life and education Atagök was born in Istanbul, Turkey on 6 May 1939 and in 1959, she graduated from the American College for Girls. S ...
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Abdullah Atalar Abdullah Atalar (born 11 April 1954) is a Turkish scientist and academic. Atalar was the Rector (education), rector of Bilkent University, İhsan Doğramacı Bilkent University, and a professor at Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineer ...
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Toktamış Ateş Toktamış Ateş (4 April 1944 – 19 January 2013) was a Turkish academic, political commentator, columnist and writer. He was professor of political sciences at Istanbul University. Biography Toktamış Ateş was born in Istanbul. After gradu ...
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Mehmet Aydın Mehmet Aydın is a Turkish politician who was one of Turkey's Ministers of State.Mustafa Aydın * Lale Aytaman * Orhan Aytür


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Özalp Babaoğlu Özalp Babaoğlu (born August 10, 1955, in Ankara, Turkey), is a Turkish computer scientist. He is currently professor of computer science at the University of Bologna, Italy. He received a Ph.D. in 1981 from the University of California at Berke ...
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Ali Bardakoğlu Ali Bardakoğlu (born 1952) served as the president of the Presidency of Religious Affairs () of Turkey between 2003 and 2010. Background Ali Bardakoğlu was born in 1952 in Tosya in the province of Kastamonu. He was the president of the Diyanet ...
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Aykut Barka Aykut Barka (December 16, 1951, Fatih, Istanbul – February 1, 2002) was a Turkish geoscientist specialized in seismology. He is best known for his contributions to understanding the behaviour of the North Anatolian Fault Zone (NAFZ), one of ...
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Asım Orhan Barut Asım Orhan Barut (June 6, 1926 – December 5, 1994) was a Turkish-American theoretical physicist. Education He received both his undergraduate diploma and his Ph.D. degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich in 1949 and 1 ...
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Tamer Başar Mustafa Tamer Başar (born January 19, 1946) is a control and game theorist who is the ''Swanlund Endowed Chair'' and Center for Advanced Study Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaig ...
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Süheyl Batum Bedii Süheyl Batum (born 6 May 1955) is a Turkish professor of constitutional law, political scientist, columnist and Kemalist politician who had served as the Member of Parliament for Eskişehir from June 2011 to June 2015. He was the forme ...
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Deniz Baykal Deniz Baykal (20 July 1938 – 11 February 2023) was a Turkish politician. A member of the Republican People's Party (CHP) who served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1995 to 1996. Having served in numerous governmen ...
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Murat Belge Murat Belge (born 16 March 1943) is a Turkish academic, translator, literary critic, columnist, civil rights activist, and occasional tour guide. Early life Belge is the son of political journalist Burhan Asaf Belge (who was married to Hung ...
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Nihat Berker Ahmet Nihat Berker (born 20 September 1949) is a Turkish people, Turkish scientist, theoretical chemist, physicist and emeritus professor of physics at MIT. Currently, he is the acting Dean (education), Dean of Engineering and Natural Sciences i ...
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Halil Berktay Halil Berktay (born August 27, 1947) is a Turkish historian at Ibn Haldun University and was columnist for the daily ''Taraf''. Life and career Halil Berktay was born in İzmir into an intellectual Turkish communist family. Both of his parent ...
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Behice Boran Behice Boran (1 May 1910 – 10 October 1987) was a Turkish Marxist-Leninist politician, author and sociologist. As a dissenting political voice from the far-left, Boran was repeatedly imprisoned for her work and died in exile after the Turk ...
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Korkut Boratav Korkut Boratav (born 1935) is a Turkish Marxian economist. Career Boratav was born in Konya. After his graduation from Ankara Gazi Highschool in 1955, he continued his studies at the Law faculty of Ankara University. In 1960 he became a lectur ...
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Naci Bostancı Mehmet Naci Bostancı (born 2 August 1957) is a Turkish politician and academic who currently serves as the Deputy Speaker of the Grand National Assembly along with Şafak Pavey, Koray Aydın and Yurdusev Özsökmenler as of 9 July 2015. He was ...
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Metin Boşnak Metin Boşnak (born 1965) is a Turkish professor of Bosniak origin. His academic publications include contributions to the fields of American culture and literature and comparative literature and cinematography. Metin Boşnak has a BA in TEFL ...
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Aydın Boysan Aydın Boysan (17 June 1921 – 5 January 2018) was a Turkish architect, academic, author and essayist. Life and profession Boysan was born in Istanbul; his father Esat was an accountant and his mother Nevreste was a teacher. After Pertevniyal ...
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Ali Bozer Ali Hüsrev Bozer (28 July 1925 – 30 September 2020) was a Turkish politician and academic of commercial law. Biography Bozer was born in Ankara, Turkey. At first a member of the Nationalist Democracy Party (MDP), then of the Motherland Par ...
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Erdoğan Büyükkasap Erdoğan Büyükkasap (3 February 1962 – 18 March 2010) was a Turkish scientist and academic. He was president of Erzincan University, a university in Erzincan, Turkey. Büyükkasap was born in Tosya, Kastamonu, Turkey on 3 February 1962. He re ...


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Muazzez İlmiye Çığ Muazzez İlmiye Çığ (''née'' İtil; 20 June 1914 – 17 November 2024) was a Turkish librarian, writer, and supercentenarian who specialised in the study of Hittites and Sumerian civilization. Early life Çığ's parents were Crimean Tatar ...
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Ümit Cizre Ümit Cizre (born 1946) is a Turkish academic, and a leading expert on civilian-military relations in Turkey. She is a professor of political science and international relations at Istanbul Şehir University. She is the editor of ''Almanac Turkey ...
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Tansu Çiller Tansu Çiller (; born 24 May 1946) is a Turkish academic, economist, and politician who served as the 22nd Prime Minister of Turkey from 1993 to 1996. She was Turkey's first and only female prime minister. As the leader of the True Path Party ...
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Abdullah Cevdet Abdullah Cevdet Bey (‎9 September 1869 – 29 November 1932) was a Young Turk intellectual and physician of Kurdish origin. He was one of the founders of the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) and wrote articles with pen name of "Bir Kür ...
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Fikri Cantürk Fikri Cantürk (7 February 1933 – 30 April 2019) was a Turkish painter and academic. Biography Born in the village Karalar, Ankara, Fikri CANTÜRK completed his primary education attending the school “Eğitmenli” in his home town for the ...
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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. Biography Çambel was born in Berlin, German Empire on 27 ...
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Celal Şengör 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 Adan (bo ...


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Canan Dağdeviren Canan Dağdeviren (born May 4, 1985) is a Turkish women in academics, Turkish academic, physicist, material scientist, and Associate Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she currently holds the LG Career Developme ...
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Ahmet Davutoğlu Ahmet Davutoğlu (; born 26 February 1959) is a Turkish academic, politician and former diplomat who served as the List of Prime Ministers of Turkey, 26th Prime Minister of Turkey and Leader of the Justice and Development Party (Turkey), Justice ...
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Selim Deringil Selim 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, and j ...
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Ömer Diler Ömer Diler (1945, Istanbul – 18 March 2005, Istanbul) was a Turkish numismatist specializing in Islamic coins. His posthumous book ''Ilkhans'' is the definitive work on the coinage of the Ilkhanate. Ömer Diler was trained as a chemical engine ...
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Güzin Dino Güzin Dino (1910 – May 30, 2013) was a Turkish literary scholar, linguist, translator and writer. She is known for writing from a Marxist perspective. She was married to the painter Abidin Dino (1913–1993).Presse et mémoire: France des étr ...
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İhsan Doğramacı İhsan Doğramacı (3 April 1915 – 25 February 2010) was a Turkish people, Turkish paediatrician, entrepreneur, philanthropist, educationalist and college administrator of Iraqi Turkmen descent born in modern Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq ...
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Burhanettin Duran Burhanettin Duran (born 1971) is a Turkish scholar and diplomat serving as Turkey's Deputy Foreign Minister since 2024. His academic work specializes on the transformation of political Islam under Turkey's Justice and Development Party (AKP). He pr ...


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Ekrem Buğra Ekinci Ekrem Buğra Ekinci (born 4 May 1966) is an Armenian academic. He is a professor of history of Turkish Law and Islamic Law. He is currently a member of the Faculty of Law of Marmara University. Ekinci graduated from the Faculty of Law of Ank ...
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Nazım Ekren Nazım Ekren (born December 4, 1956, in Istanbul) is a Turkish academic and politician who was the Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey responsible for economic affairs from 2007 until 2009. Political career He was appointed to his position in August ...
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Osman Nuri Eralp Osman Nuri Eralp (1876–1940) was a Turkish politician, veterinarian and microbiologist. Eralp was born in Arapgir, Malatya in the Ottoman Empire. He completed his university education at "Mekteb-i Tıbbiye-i Mülkiye" which was the medical sc ...
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Necmettin Erbakan Necmettin Erbakan (29 October 1926 – 27 February 2011) was a Turkish politician and political theorist who served as the 23rd prime minister of Turkey from 1996 to 1997. He was pressured by the military to step down as prime minister and was la ...
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Aytül Erçil Aytül Erçil (born 14 December 1958) is a Turkish entrepreneur, CEO, and Professor of Computer Vision at Sabancı University in Istanbul. She was the founder of Vistek A.Ş. and a co-founder and CEO of Vispera. Biography Aytül Erçil graduat ...
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Kayhan Erciyeş Kayhan Erciyeş (born 30 November 1956) is a Turkish computer engineer, educator and author. Between 2009 and 2016, he was the rector of İzmir University. Biography After receiving the Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering f ...
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Nevnihal Erdoğan Nevnihal Erdoğan (born 21 August 1959) is a Turkish architect and professor of architecture at the University of Kocaeli in İzmit. Biography Family and personal life Erdoğan was born on August 21, 1959, in Kars, Turkey. She grew up bi ...
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Turhan Erdoğan Turhan Yaşar Erdoğan (1 January 1938, Tarsus – 4 January 2019, in Ankara) was a Turkish academic in civil engineering. He graduated from Tarsus American College in 1957. He completed his M.S. studies in the Civil Engineering Department of t ...
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Tunç Erem Tunç Erem (born 1938) is a Turkish academic in international marketing and international trade and strategic management. Erem was born in Istanbul in 1938. After finishing Robert College High School in Istanbul, he graduated from the college o ...
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Kazım Ergin Kazim Ergin (May 21, 1915 – November 24, 2002) was a Turkish geophysicist. Early years Ergin was born on May 21, 1915, in Gaziantep, in southeastern Turkey. He completed his primary, secondary and high school education in Gaziantep under di ...
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Ahmed Cemal Eringen Ahmet Cemal Eringen (February 15, 1921 – December 7, 2009) was a Turkish engineering scientist. He was a professor at Princeton University and the founder of the Society of Engineering Science.
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Elza Erkip Elza Erkip is a Turkish-American electrical and computer engineer, professor and wireless technology researcher at New York University. Education Erkip received her B.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Middle East Technical Univer ...
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Veysel Eroğlu Veysel Eroğlu (born 18 August 1948) is a Member of Parliament for Afyonkarahisar of the ruling Justice and Development Party and a former Minister of Forestry and Water of Turkey. Early life Eroğlu was born on 18 August 1948 in the Şuhut ...
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Okan Ersoy Okan Kadri Ersoy (born September 5, 1945) is now Professor Emeritus of electrical engineering Formerly, he was a professor of electrical engineering and the director of the Statistical and Computational Intelligence Laboratory at Purdue Univer ...
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Uğur Ersoy Uğur Ersoy (born in 1932) is a Turkish civil engineer and academic. Life He was born in Mersin. His father Yakup Ersoy was the local chairman of the Republican People's Party (CHP). After graduating from Tarsus American College, he earned his ...
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Semavi Eyice Mustafa Semavi Eyice (9 December 1922 in Istanbul, Turkey – 28 May 2018 in Istanbul, Turkey) was a Turkish art historian and archaeologist, who specialised in the study of Byzantine and Ottoman art in Istanbul. Professor Eyice is widely rega ...


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Metin Feyzioğlu Metin Feyzioğlu (born 7 July 1969) is a Turkish lawyer and a professor of criminal law who served as the 8th president of the Turkish Bars Association between May 2013 and December 2021. Metin Feyzioğlu was appointed as Türkiye's new ambassado ...
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Turhan Feyzioğlu Turhan Feyzioğlu (1922 – 24 March 1988) was a Turkish academic and a politician. Early life He was born in Kayseri. After finishing the primary school in Kayseri, he attended Galatasaray High School and later studied at Istanbul University ...


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Erol Gelenbe Sami Erol Gelenbe (born 22 August 1945, Istanbul) is a Turkish and French computer scientist, electronic engineer and applied mathematician, renowned for pioneering work in computer system and network performance. His academic career spans sever ...
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Mehmet Görmez Mehmet Görmez (born 1959) is the former President of the Presidency of Religious Affairs ( from November 2010 to 31 July 2017, commonly known as ''Diyanet'') and as such legally the highest level Islamic scholar in Turkey and the Turkish Republi ...
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Kemal Gözükara Kemal Gözükara is a Turkish mathematician and businessman and is also a benefactor and president of the Istanbul Arel University. Life and work Gözükara was born in the village of Eldelek in the district of Elbistan, Kahramanmaraş. He atte ...
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Nermin Gözükırmızı Nermin Gözükırmızı, scientific advisor and professor in Istanbul University, was born on June 18, 1951, in İzmit, Turkey. She enrolled in the Department of Botany-Zoology in Istanbul University in 1967 and graduated in 1972. She started as ...
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Birgül Ayman Güler Birgül Ayman Güler (born 1 June 1961) is a Turkish academic and politician. Life Birgül Ayman was born to İlyas and Zehra in Bergama ilçe (district) of İzmir Province, Turkey on 1 June 1961. After obtaining her bachelor's degree in the Sc ...
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Nuriye Gülmen Nuriye Gülmen (born 24 November 1982) is a Turkish academician and activist. While working for Selçuk University within the scope of the Faculty Member Training Program (ÖYP), Gülmen was appointed to the Eskişehir Osmangazi University. There ...
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Erol Güngör Erol Güngör (Born Nov. 25 1938 in Kırşehir- Died 1983) was a Turkish social psychologist and writer. His work focused on the socially derived nature of language, morality, and values. Güngör wrote extensively on nationalism and culture at a t ...
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Levent Gürel Levent Gürel (born 1964 in Izmir, Turkey; transliterated as Levent Gurel) is a Turkish scientist and electrical engineer. He was the director oComputational Electromagnetics Research Center (BiLCEM)and a professor in thDepartment of Electrical ...
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Aydın Güven Gürkan Aydın Güven Gürkan (May 10, 1941 – January 22, 2006) was a Turkish academic and politician. Early life Gürkan was born in Elazığ on 10 May 1941. In 1963, he graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences in Ankara University. In 1970, ...
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Feza Gürsey Feza Gürsey (; April 7, 1921 – April 13, 1992) was a Turkish mathematician and physicist. Among his contributions to theoretical physics, his work on the chiral model and on SU(6) symmetry of the quark model are the most well-known. Early l ...
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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 Hüsn ...
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Yaprak Gürsoy Yaprak Gürsoy is a Professor of European Politics and the Chair of Contemporary Turkish Studies at the London School of Economics. Prior to joining the LSE she was a Senior Lecturer and the Undergraduate Programme Director of Politics and Intern ...


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Talât Sait Halman Talât Sait Halman, GBE (7 July 1931 – 5 December 2014) was a Turkish poet, translator and cultural historian. He was the first Minister of Culture of Turkey. From 1998 onward, he taught at Bilkent University as the dean of the Faculty of ...
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M. Şükrü Hanioğlu M. Şükrü Hanioğlu is a Turkish professor of late Ottoman history in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. Between 2005 and 2014, he was the department chair. Currently, he is an associated faculty member at Princeton ...
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Ahmet Mete Işıkara Ahmet Mete Işıkara (22 October 1941 – 21 January 2013) was a Turkish geophysicist and earthquake scientist known for his efforts to create public awareness of the need for earthquake-related protection and safety. Early years Işıkara ...
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Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu Ekmeleddin Mehmet İhsanoğlu (; born 26 December 1943) is a Turkish chemistry and science history professor, academician, diplomat and politician who was Secretary-General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) from 2004 to 2014. He i ...
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Ataç İmamoğlu Ataç İmamoğlu (born August 12, 1964) is a Turkish-Swiss physicist working on quantum optics and quantum computation. His academic interests are quantum optics, semiconductor physics, and nonlinear optics. Education İmamoğlu graduated from ...
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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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Mustafa İnan Mustafa İnan (1911–1967) was a Turkish civil engineering academic. Life He was born in Adana. His mother was Rabia and father was Hüseyin Avni. At the end of the First World War, Adana was occupied by the French forces and his family had t ...
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Kemal Inat Kemal Inat is a professor of Turkish Foreign Policy and Middle East Politics in the Department of International Relations at Sakarya University. Inat is founding director of Sakarya University Middle East Institute and head of Department of Interna ...
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Erdal İnönü Erdal İnönü (6 June 1926 – 31 October 2007) was a Turkish theoretical physicist and politician who served as the interim prime minister of Turkey between 16 May and 25 June 1993. He also served as the deputy prime minister of Turkey from 1 ...
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Bülent İplikçioğlu Bülent İplikçioğlu (born 1952 Afyonkarahisar, Turkey), is Turkish historian, epigrapher and professor of ancient history at the Marmara University in Istanbul. İplikçioğlu studied History, Ancient History, Classics and Archaeology at the un ...
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Emrullah İşler Emrullah İşler (born 7 January 1960) is a Turkish theologian, university lecturer, and politician. On 25 December 2013, he was appointed as a deputy prime minister in the third cabinet of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Early life Emrul ...


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Bedri Karafakıoğlu Bedri Karafakioğlu (23 October 1915 – 20 October 1978) was a Turkish assassinated academic and former rector of Istanbul Technical University Early life He was born in Çorum on 29 October 1915. His father Süheyl Rumi was a civil servant ...
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Atilla Karaosmanoğlu Atilla Karaosmanoğlu (20 September 1932 – 11 November 2013) was a Turkish economist and politician. Background Karosmanoğlu was born in Manisa, Turkey in 1931. After graduating from the Faculty of Political Sciences of Ankara University in ...
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Fuat Köprülü Fuat is a masculine Turkish given name and the Turkish spelling of the Arabic name Fuad (Arabic: فؤَاد ''fū’ād, fou’ād'') meaning "heart". Notable people named Fuat include: * Fuat Çapa (born 1968), Belgian-Turkish football manager ...
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Behram Kurşunoğlu Behram Kurşunoğlu (14 March 1922 – 25 October 2003) was a Turkish people, 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 theo ...
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Şule Kut Şule Kut is the Rector of Okan University. Until 2010, she worked in Istanbul Bilgi University as a professor in International Relations, specifically on Turkish politics and the Balkans. She had been the Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Admin ...


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Janet Akyüz Mattei Janet Hanula Mattei ( Akyüz; January 2, 1943 – March 22, 2004) was a Turkish-American astronomer who was the director of the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO) from 1973 to 2004. Biography Janet Hanula Akyüz was ...
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Uğur Mumcu Uğur Mumcu (; 22 August 1942 – 24 January 1993)
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Nesrin Nas Nesrin Nas (born 1958) is a Turkish female academic in economics, politician and the former leader of the Motherland Party (Anavatan Partisi, ANAP). She was born in the Central Anatolian town of Bünyan in Kayseri Province. Her father's name ...
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Salih Neftçi Salih Nur Neftçi (14 July 1947 – 15 April 2009) was a leading expert in the fields of financial markets and financial engineering. He served many advisory roles in national and international financial institutions, and was an active researcher ...
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Sıddık Sami Onar Sıddık Sami Onar (November 11, 1897 – August 9, 1972) was a Turkish academic specialized in administrative law an the Istanbul University. Life He was born in Istanbul to Melekper and Abdullah Sami. After graduating from Vefa High School, ...
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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 dire ...
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Hasan Özbekhan Dr. Hasan Özbekhan (1921February 12, 2007) was a Turkish American systems scientist, cyberneticist, philosopher and planner who was Professor Emeritus of Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He applied the field-of- ...
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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 ...
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Yaşar Nuri Öztürk Yaşar Nuri Öztürk (February 5, 1951 – June 22, 2016) was a Turkish Islamic scholar, university professor of Islamic philosophy, lawyer, columnist and a former member of Turkish parliament. He has been described as a Quranist and has given ...


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Necla Pur Necla Pur (born 23 November 1943) is a Turkish economist, scholar and professor. She is the former rector of Marmara University Marmara University (Turkish language, Turkish: ''Marmara Üniversitesi'') is a Public university, public researc ...


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Nükhet Ruacan Nükhet Ruacan (14 December 1951 – 6 May 2007) was a Turkish singer and educator in musicology. Life Nükhet Ruacan was born in Istanbul, Turkey on 14 December 1951. She studied graphic design in the State College of Applied Fine Arts Istanbul ...


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Aziz Sancar Aziz Sancar (; born 8September 1946) is a Turkish molecular biologist specializing in DNA repair, cell cycle checkpoints, and circadian clock. In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Tomas Lindahl and Paul L. Modrich fo ...
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Aydın Sayılı Aydın Sayılı (; 2 May 1913 – 15 October 1993) was a prominent Turkish historian of science. Sayılı's portrait is depicted on the Obverse and reverse, reverse of the Turkish 5 Turkish lira, lira banknote issued in 2009. He was the first Ph ...
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Türkan Saylan Türkan Saylan (13 December 1935 – 18 May 2009) was a Turkish medical doctor in dermatology, academic, writer, teacher and social activist. She was famous for fighting leprosy, and for founding a charitable foundation called "Association for t ...
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Oktay Sinanoğlu Oktay Sinanoğlu (February 25, 1935 – April 19, 2015) was a Turkish physical chemist and molecular biophysicist who made contributions to the theory of electron correlation in molecules, the statistical mechanics of clathrate hydrates, quant ...
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Tarık Galip Somer Tarık Galip Somer (1926–1997) was a Turkish academic. Early life He was born in 1926 in the Develi, Kayseri. His father was Mehmet, and his mother was Elmas. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in ...
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Halil Mete Soner Halil Mete Soner is a Turkish American mathematician born in Ankara and is the Normal John Sollenberger Professor at Princeton University. Soner's research interests are nonlinear partial differential equations; asymptotic analysis of Ginzburg-L ...
* Ayşe Soysal *
Ibrahim Sirkeci Ibrahim Sirkeci (born 1972) is a British Turkish social scientist. He is currently the director of International Business School, Manchester, United Kingdom. Previously, he was the Head of Enterprise Subject Group at Salford Business School, ...
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Mümtaz Soysal Osman Mümtaz Soysal (15 September 1929 – 11 November 2019) was a Turkish professor of constitutional law, political scientist, politician, human rights activist, ex-prisoner of conscience, senior advisor, columnist, and author. Soysal serve ...
* B. Mutlu Sumer *
Elif Şafak Elif Shafak ( ; née Bilgin; born 25 October 1971) is a Turkish-British novelist, essayist, public speaker, political scientist and activist. Shafak writes in Turkish and English, and has published 21 books. She is best known for her nove ...
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Celâl Şengör Ali Mehmet Celâl Şengör (; born 24 March 1955) is a Turkish geologist. He is retired from the faculty at Istanbul Technical University, Department of Geological Engineering. Şengör is a (foreign) member of the American Philosophical Soc ...
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Hikmet Şimşek Hikmet Şimşek (1924, Pervari – 12 October 2001, Ankara) was a Turkish people, Turkish conductor of Western classical music. Life His father was an officer. He was born in Pervari (of Siirt Province). But the family soon moved to Konya. In 1936, ...
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Mehmet Şimşek Mehmet Şimşek (born 1 January 1967) is a Turkish politician and economist, who has been serving as the List of Finance Ministers of Turkey, Minister of Treasury and Finance since 4 June 2023. He was the Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey from 24 ...
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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. Tezcan ...
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Erdoğan Teziç Erdoğan Teziç (1936 – 23 April 2017) was a Turkish academic in constitutional law. Early life He was born in Istanbul. He graduated from Galatasaray High School in 1955 and Law school of Istanbul University in 1959. He traveled to Paris, Fra ...
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Beğlan Birand Toğrol Beğlan Birand Toğrol (born March 1927 in Istanbul - 19 January 2016) was a Turkish scientist, best known for her contributions to medical and experimental psychology. Early life Toğrol attended Istanbul University where she got certificates ...
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Mehmet Toner Mehmet Toner (born 1958) is a Turkish biomedical engineering, biomedical engineer. He is currently the Helen Andrus Benedict Professor of Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School, with a joint appointment as prof ...
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Hıfzı Topuz Hıfzı Topuz (25 January 1923 – 26 September 2023) was a Turkish journalist, travel writer and novelist. He also served as a lecturer on journalism at several universities. Early life Topuz was born on 25 January 1923 in Istanbul. After fini ...
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İlter Turan Adil İlter Turan is a Turkish academic. He is a professor of Political Science in the Department of International Relations at Istanbul Bilgi University. He was Rector of the University from 1998 to 2001. He was the Program Chair of the 21st ...
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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. Following ...


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Bilge Umar Bilge Umar (1936 – 8 July 2023) was a Turkish writer, researcher and jurist. Biography Bilge Umar was born in Karşıyaka, İzmir, Turkey in 1936. He completed his studies at the Istanbul University Law School, where he also worked, after grad ...
* Nermin Abadan Unat *
Bahriye Üçok Bahriye Üçok (1919 – 6 October 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 ...
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Besim Üstünel Besim Üstünel (1927 – June 2, 2015) was an academic in economics, politician and former Minister of Finance of Turkey. Family life and early years Besim Üstünel was born to Emin Üstünel and his wife Zekiye in Gaziantep, Southeastern Tu ...


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Serap Yazıcı Serap Yazıcı (born 1963 in Ankara, Turkey) is a Turkish politician and academic of Constitutional Law. She was a member of a committee tasked with drafting a proposal for the new constitution of Turkey. She was elected to the Grand National Ass ...
* K. Aslihan Yener * Hatice Duran Yildiz, physicist
Academics Academic means of or related to an academy, an institution learning. Academic or academics may also refer to: * Academic staff, or faculty, teachers or research staff * school of philosophers associated with the Platonic Academy in ancient Greece ...
Academics Academic means of or related to an academy, an institution learning. Academic or academics may also refer to: * Academic staff, or faculty, teachers or research staff * school of philosophers associated with the Platonic Academy in ancient Greece ...
Turkish Turkish may refer to: * Something related to Turkey ** Turkish language *** Turkish alphabet ** Turkish people, a Turkic ethnic group and nation *** Turkish citizen, a citizen of Turkey *** Turkish communities in the former Ottoman Empire * The w ...