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Nizip
Nizip ( gkm, Nisibis or Nisibina; ota, نزيب) is a town and district of Gaziantep Province of southeastern Turkey. As of 2010, the population of the city is 96,229. It is located 45 km from the city of Gaziantep, 95 km from Şanlıurfa (Edessa, Mesopotamia, Edessa), and 35 km from Karkamış, which is an old city also known historically as Carchemish. Notable people * Cahit Tanyol, Turkish sociologist * Celal Doğan (1943*), former mayor of Gaziantep and president of Gaziantep F.K., lawyer, and politician * Mehmet Ali Yaprak (1949-2004), Turkey, Turkish businessman and drug trafficker * Mustafa Cengiz (1949-2021), businessman who served as the president of sports club Galatasaray S.K. * Mehmet Görmez (1959*), former President of the Presidency of Religious Affairs and as such legally the highest level Islamic scholar in Turkey and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. * Zihni Çakır (1969*), journalist and author * Ali Şahin (politician, born 1970), A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barak Turkmens
Barak, also known as Barak Turkmens ( tr, Barak Türkmenleri), is a Turkoman tribe that mainly originates in the Barak Plain ( tr, Barak Ovası) in the southeastern portion of the province of Gaziantep in south-central Turkey. Etymology The reason why this group bears the name "Barak" is disputed and not fully known, but this term appears in several instances of history. In the old Turkic calendar, Barak was the name of the dog year. Barak was also mentioned in Oğuzname as one of the old Turkic tribes. Barak Hajib, a Khitan noble, had formed Barak beylik around Kerman, following the Seljuk rule. Born in Tokat and passed away in Khoy, was a Turkic dervish who lived between thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Itbarak or just Barak was a dog-headed manly creature mentioned in Oghuz Khagan Narratives. According to Sevan Nişanyan, "barak" means fast-running and raider. History Origin myth According to their dastan of origin, they were a part of the tribe of Uzun Hasan. After ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mustafa Cengiz
Mustafa Cengiz (25 December 1949 – 28 November 2021) was a Former Bureaucrat and Turkish businessman who served as the president of sports club Galatasaray S.K. Early life Mustafa Cengiz was born in Nizip, Gaziantep Province, southeastern Turkey on 25 December 1949. His father Mehmet Cengiz owned the first modern factories in Eastern Turkey and he was well- known, trusted businessmen, he also known as Pamuk Muhammed. Mustafa Cengiz completed his primary and secondary education in his hometown. He then graduated from Gaziantep High School. Then he studied at Faculty of Political Science, Ankara University. Career Cengiz became a founding specialist in foreign trade for a cooperative of agriculture (Köy-Koop). At the age of 28, he became the general manager of the central economic organization founded by 670 municipalities (TANSA) as the youngest executive in the public sector. Following the 1980 military coup, he went to foreign trade in the private sector working in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mehmet Görmez
Mehmet Görmez (born 1959) is the former President of the Presidency of Religious Affairs ( tr, Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı 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 Republic of Northern Cyprus. Background Mehmet Görmez was born in 1959 in Nizip in Gaziantep Province, Turkey. His maternal grandmother was Turkish, while his paternal grandmother was Kurdish. His paternal side is partially from Sivas. He has been the President of ''Diyanet'' since November 2010. In 1987, he completed his studies of Islamic studies at Ankara University and gained his bachelor's degree at this faculty. Later, he became an assistant at Ahmet Yesevi University in Kazakhstan. From 1988 to 1989, he visited Cairo University. In 1995, he earned his PhD in Islamic studies at the Ankara University. From 1997 to 1998, he lived in the United Kingdom. From 2001 to 2003 he gave lessons at the Hacettep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zihni Çakır
Zihni Çakır (born 1969, Nizip) is a Turkish journalist and author known for publishing several books on the Ergenekon organization. Background Çakır was born in 1969 in Nizip, Gaziantep Province, and graduated from Ankara University Faculty of Communication. He worked in various media as a correspondent and in managerial roles; at one point he was editor-in-chief of ''Türkeli'', a publication associated with Vatansever Kuvvetler Güç BirliÄŸi Hareketi. Books Çakır has published several books on the Ergenekon organization. In 2008 Çakır was sentenced to 18 months in prison for "violating the secrecy of an investigation" in relation to the Ergenekon trials. In 2009 Çakır complained that a court had forced him to reveal sources relating to his book ''Kod adı darbe''. Among other topics this book "argued that –zdemirSabancı’s murder was organized by Abdullah Çatlı, Hüseyin KocadaÄŸ and military officer Hüseyin Pepekal." Çakır said in 2008 that the head of E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdulhamit Gül
Abdulhamit Gül ( tr, Abdülhamit Gül; born 12 March 1977) is a Turkish politician and former Minister of Justice. He is a member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey from Gaziantep. He was previously the General Secretary of the Justice and Development Party. He is not related with Abdullah Gül. Early life and education Gül was born to working-class parents in Nizip on 12 March 1977. His father is originally from Artvin. His mother was the daughter of an Islamic scholar born in Çermik and mentored by Said Nursî. She knew Kurdish. Gül attended a local high school, showing political interest from a young age. He completed his higher education at Ankara University. Political career He was assigned as a member of board in Ankara Youth Community of Virtue Party (FP) and Welfare Party (RP). He was the head of the National Youth Foundation from 1999 to 2001. Between 2001 and 2003, he was the vice chairman of FP. From 2003 to 2010, he participated in the General Admin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ali Åžahin (politician, Born 1970)
Ali Şahin (born 2 January 1970) is a Turkish politician who has been Deputy Minister of European Union Affairs since January 2016. He served as a Member of Parliament for Gaziantep from Justice and Development Party (AKP) between 2011–2015. He was candidated for MP at June 2015 and November 2015 general elections. He could get on the AKP's Gaziantep candidates' lists but didn't succeed to be MP again. He was elected as the TGNA XXVII. period AK Party Gaziantep Deputy in during the 24 June 2018 parliamentary elections He served as the AK Party Deputy Chairman of Social Policies, a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Parliament, and a member of the PACE Turkish Group The Sitara-i-Pakistan was Conferred upon him in 2020 by the President of Pakistan, Dr. Arif Alvi Arif-ur-Rehman Alvi (; born 29 July 1949) is a Pakistani dentist and politician currently serving as the 13th President of Pakistan, in office since 9 September 2018. He was a member of the National As ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaziantep
Gaziantep (), previously and still informally called Aintab or Antep (), is a major city and capital of the Gaziantep Province, in the westernmost part of Turkey's Southeastern Anatolia Region and partially in the Mediterranean Region, approximately east of Adana and north of Aleppo, Syria. It is thought to be located on the site of ancient Antiochia ad Taurum, and is near ancient Zeugma. As of the 31/12/2021 last estimation, the Metropolitan Province was home to 2,130,432 inhabitants, of whom 1,775,904 lived in the metropolitan area made of two (out of three) urban districts of Åžahinbey and Åžehitkamil, as OÄŸuzeli is not conurbated. It is the sixth-most populous city in Turkey. Name Due to the city's contact with many ethnic groups and cultures throughout its history, the name of the city has many variants and alternatives, such as: *''Hantab'', ''Hamtab'', or ''Hatab'' as known by the Crusaders. *''Antab'' and its variants in vulgar Turkish and Armenian since 17th cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cahit Tanyol
Hüseyin Cahit Tanyol (1914 – 11 August 2020) was a Turkish writer, poet, and sociologist, often regarded as the father of Turkish sociology. Early life and education Hüseyin Cahit was born in 1914 in the town of Nezib, then located in the vilayet of Aleppo, Ottoman Empire. In 1931, he finished Adana Boys' Teacher School. He graduated from Gazi Institute of Education in 1935. In 1940, he started studying philosophy at Istanbul University and got his master's degree four years later with his thesis "The Origin of Ethics in Schopenhauer." He started working as an assistant at the same university in 1946 and got his PhD with his work "The Place of Pleasure and Suffering in Morality." Career While he was working as a teacher in Izmir in 1939, he started publishing ''Aramak'', a Turkish literary magazine, receiving acclaim from well-known Turkish authors at the time. He became an associate professor in 1953 and a professor in 1961. Between 1972 and 1982, he served as the head o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaziantep F
Gaziantep (), previously and still informally called Aintab or Antep (), is a major city and capital of the Gaziantep Province, in the westernmost part of Turkey's Southeastern Anatolia Region and partially in the Mediterranean Region, approximately east of Adana and north of Aleppo, Syria. It is thought to be located on the site of ancient Antiochia ad Taurum, and is near ancient Zeugma. As of the 31/12/2021 last estimation, the Metropolitan Province was home to 2,130,432 inhabitants, of whom 1,775,904 lived in the metropolitan area made of two (out of three) urban districts of Åžahinbey and Åžehitkamil, as OÄŸuzeli is not conurbated. It is the sixth-most populous city in Turkey. Name Due to the city's contact with many ethnic groups and cultures throughout its history, the name of the city has many variants and alternatives, such as: *''Hantab'', ''Hamtab'', or ''Hatab'' as known by the Crusaders. *''Antab'' and its variants in vulgar Turkish and Armenian since 17th centur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mehmet Ali Yaprak
Mehmet Ali Yaprak (1949 in Nizip – 4 January 2004) was a Turkish businessman and drug trafficker, who was involved in the Susurluk scandal. He died in Kartal Prison in January 2004 after falling into a diabetic coma. Yaprak was kidnapped on 25 April 1996 and released a week later. He was a major figure in the captagon trade. Yaprak was ostensibly a businessman with a television channel (Yaprak TV), a radio station, and a tourism company (Hidayet Turizm). However, he also led a feared gang that smuggled Captagon via Syria and Saudi Arabia, according to the Susurluk scandal MİT report. His tourism company facilitated the trafficking. The report says that Yaprak donated 500 billion Lira to support Mehmet Ağar's electoral campaign. Upon learning of Yaprak's wealth, Abdullah Çatlı Abdullah Çatlı (1 June 1956 – 3 November 1996) was a Turkish secret government agent, as well as a contract killer for the National Intelligence Organization (MİT). He led the Grey Wolves, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaziantep Province
Gaziantep Province ( tr, ) is a province in south-central Turkey. It is located in the westernmost part of Turkey's Southeastern Anatolia Region and partially in the Mediterranean Region. Its capital is the city of Gaziantep. It neighbours Adıyaman to the northeast, Şanlıurfa to the east, Syria and Kilis to the south, Hatay to the southwest, Osmaniye to the west and Kahramanmaraş to the northwest. An important trading center since ancient times, the province is also one of Turkey's major manufacturing zones, and its agriculture is dominated by the growing of pistachio nuts. In ancient times, first under the power of Yamhad, then the Hittites and later the Assyrians controlled the region. It saw much fighting during the Crusades, and Saladin won a key battle there in 1183. After World War I and the Ottoman Empire's disintegration, it was invaded by the forces of the French Third Republic during the Turkish War of Independence. It was returned to Turkish control after the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Nezib
The Battle of Nezib ( ar, معركة نزب) (present-day Nizip) was fought on 24 June 1839 between Egypt and the Ottoman Empire. The Egyptians were led by Ibrahim Pasha, while the Ottomans were led by Hafiz Osman Pasha, with Helmuth von Moltke the Elder playing an advisory role, in command of the Ottoman artillery. Battle Several hours prior to when the major combat began, von Moltke had pleaded Hafiz Pasha to withdraw to a more secure and fortified position near Birecik and to await expected reinforcements, as Hafiz Pasha's forces were outmatched in quality by the advancing Egyptians. Initially Hafiz acquiesced to Moltke, but not long after he decided to maintain his army's position, due to the advice of his mullahs. The Ottoman troops under Hafiz Pasha were positioned at Mezar, southwest of Nezib, with the Nezib river on their left. Ibrahim advanced his force, under heavy Ottoman artillery fire, towards the Ottoman lines. At the same time, the Ottoman line began to take Eg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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