Turkish Armenians include:
Arts and entertainment
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Rober Hatemo
Rober Hatemo ( hy, Րոբեր Հաթեմո, born December 25, 1974) is a Turkic peoples, Turkish pop singer of Armenians, Armenian descent.
Life
He is of Armenians in Turkey, Armenian descent and was born in Çanakkale.
Discography
Albums
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(born 1974), singer
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Şahan Arzruni
Şahan Arzruni ( hy, Շահան Արծրունի; born 8 June 1943) is an Armenian classical pianist, ethnomusicologist, lecturer, composer, writer and producer, residing in New York City.
Early life and education
Arzruni (also transliterated ...
(born 1943), pianist
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Nonna Bella, singer
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Hayko Cepkin
Hayko Cepkin (born 11 March 1978) is a Turkish musician of Armenian descent.
Beginnings
Hayko Cepkin has shared the stage with the likes of Kurban, Öztürk, Birol Namoğlu, Ogün Sanlısoy, Aylin Aslım, Koray Candemir and Demir Demirkan. ...
(born 1978), musician
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Jaklin Çarkçı (born 1958), mezzo-soprano
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Masis Aram Gözbek (born 1987), conductor of Bosphorus Jazz Choir
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Ara Güler
Ara Güler ( hy, Արա ԿիւլԷր; 16 August 1928 – 17 October 2018) was an Armenian-Turkish photojournalist, nicknamed "the Eye of Istanbul" or "the Photographer of Istanbul". He was "one of Turkey's few internationally known photographers ...
(1928–2018), photojournalist
* (1925–2002), actor
* (born 1939), actress
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Sirvart Kalpakian Karamanuk (1912–2008), composer
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Cem Karaca (1945–2004), rock musician (Armenian mother)
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Toto Karaca
İrma Felekyan, better known as Toto Karaca (18 March 1912 – 22 July 1992), was a Turkish stage actress.
Of Armenian descent, Felekyan was born on March 18, 1912 in the Ottoman Empire. Her mother was Mari Hranuş Felekyan. She learned ballet ...
(1912–1992), actress
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Ferdi Özbeğen
Ferdi Özbeğen (19 August 1941 – 28 January 2013) was a Turkish singer of folk and popular music.
Early life and education
Ferdi Özbeğen was born on 17 August 1941, in Izmir. His father was Hassan Özbeğen, an immigrant from Crete, and ...
(1941–2013), musician (Armenian mother)
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Udi Hrant Kenkulian
Udi Hrant Kenkulian ( hy, Հրանդ Քենքուլեան; tr, Hrant Kenkülyan; 1901 – August 29, 1978), often referred to as Udi Hrant (lit. "oud-player Hrant") or as Hrant Emre ("Hrant of the soul") was an oud player of Turkish classical ...
(1901–1978), oud player
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Yaşar Kurt
Arşak Yaşar Kurt ( hy, Արշակ Յաշար Կուրթ, born 16 August 1968) is a Turkish-Armenian rock artist.
Biography
He studied in 1990 at the Faculty of Open Education Anadolu University but did not graduate.
He founded the alternativ ...
(born 1968), rock artist
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Adile Naşit
Adile Naşit (born Adela Özcan; 17 June 1930 – 11 December 1987) was a Turkish actress, who is best known for being the partner of Münir Özkul in movies like ''Happy Days'' and in ''Hababam Sınıfı'' (Hababam Class). She also starred in ma ...
(1930–1987), actress (Armenian mother)
* (1928–2000), actor (Armenian mother)
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Kenan Pars
Kenan Pars (born Kirkor Cezveciyan; 10 March 1920 – 10 March 2008) was a Turkish-Armenian actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1953 to 2000.
Selected filmography
References
External links
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(1920–2008), actor
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Ruhi Su
Mehmet Ruhi Su (1912 – 20 September 1985) was a Turkish opera singer, Turkish folk singer and saz virtuoso of probable Armenian (1912–1985), folk musician
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* (born 1948), actress
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Onno Tunç
Ohannes Tunçboyacı, better known as Onno Tunç (December 20, 1948 – January 14, 1996), was a leading Armenian-Turkish musician, working mainly as a composer, arranger and a music producer. Tunç also played bass guitar and occasionally double ...
(1948–1996), musician
* (born 1978), opera singer
*(born 1969), veteran film critic, journalist, and editor
Religion
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Patriarch Karekin II Kazancıian (1927–1998)
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Patriarch Mesrob II Mutafian (1956–2019)
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Patriarch Shenork I Kaloustian (1913–1990)
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Levon Zekian (born 1943), Armenian Catholic Archeparch of
Istanbul
Istanbul ( , ; tr, İstanbul ), formerly known as Constantinople ( grc-gre, Κωνσταντινούπολις; la, Constantinopolis), is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, largest city in Turkey, serving as the country's economic, ...
Sciences
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Daron Acemoglu
Kamer Daron Acemoğlu (; born September 3, 1967) is a Turkish-born American economist who has taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) since 1993. He is currently the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics at MIT. H ...
(born 1967), economist, winner of the 2005
John Bates Clark Medal
The John Bates Clark Medal is awarded by the American Economic Association to "that American economist under the age of forty who is adjudged to have made a significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge." The award is named after the ...
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Agop Dilâçar
Agop Dilâçar ( hy, Յակոբ Մարթայեան Hagop Martayan, Istanbul, 22 May 1895 – Istanbul, 12 September 1979) was a Turkish-Armenian linguist who specialized in Turkic languages and the first Secretary General and head specialist of th ...
(1895–1979), linguist and first Secretary General of the
Turkish Language Association
The Turkish Language Association ( tr, Türk Dil Kurumu, TDK) is the regulatory body for the Turkish language, founded on 12 July 1932 by the initiative of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and headquartered in Ankara, Turkey. The Institution acts as the o ...
Sports
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Can Arat
Can Arat (born 21 January 1984) is an Armenian-Turkish footballer. He plays as a center back.
Club career
Arat played 74 times for the Fenerbahçe PAF team, scoring two goals. He became a regular in the squad following Fábio Luciano's injury ...
(born 1984), soccer player
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Alen Markarian
Alen may refer to:
People
* Alen (given name), a Bosniak, Serbian and Croatian given name
* Alén (name), surname and given name
* Alen baronets of Ireland
Fictional characters
* Alen (Suikoden), a fictional character from Suikoden
Places
* Mo ...
(born 1966), leader of
Çarşı, leading fan group of
Beşiktaş J.K., journalist
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Aras Özbiliz
Aras Özbiliz ( hy, Արաս Օզբիլիզ; born 9 March 1990) is an Armenian professional footballer who plays as a winger for FC Pyunik and the Armenia national team.
Early life
Özbiliz was born on 9 March 1990 in the Bakırköy distri ...
(born 1990), football (soccer) player playing for the Armenia national team
Writers
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Arat Dink (born 1979), son of Hrant Dink, editor of
Agos
''Agos'' (in hy, Ակօս, " furrow") is an Armenian bilingual weekly newspaper published in Istanbul, Turkey, established on 5 April 1996.
''Agos'' has both Armenian and Turkish pages as well as an online English edition. Today, the paper ...
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Hrant Dink
Hrant Dink ( hy, Հրանդ Տինք; Western ; 15 September 1954 – 19 January 2007) was a Turkish-Armenian intellectual, editor-in-chief of ''Agos'', journalist and columnist.
As editor-in-chief of the bilingual Turkish-Armenian newspa ...
(1954–2007), former editor of the weekly Agos
*{{Interlanguage link multi, Vartan İhmalian, tr (1913–1987), writer
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Hrand Nazariantz
Hrand Nazariantz (Հրանտ Նազարեանց, January 8, 1886 – January 25, 1962) was an Ottoman Armenian poet and translator who lived most of his life in Italy.
Biography
Born in the Üsküdar district of Constantinople on January 8 ...
(1880–1962), journalist and poet
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Zahrad
Zareh Yaldizciyan (10 May 192420 February 2007), Զարէհ Եալտըզճեան, better known by his pen name Zahrad ( hy, Զահրատ), was a poet who lived in Turkey and wrote poems in the Armenian language.
Biography
Of Armenian descent, Za ...
(1924–2007), poet
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Sevan Nisanyan (born 1956), writer and linguist
Other people
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Selina Özuzun Doğan
Selina Özuzun Doğan (born Selina Özuzun in 1977), aka Selina Doğan, is a Turkish politician of Armenians in Turkey, Armenian ethnicity who served as a member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, Turkish Parliament between 2015 and 2018. ...
(born 1977), lawyer and politician
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Garo Paylan
Garo Paylan ( hy, Կարօ Փայլան, born 1972) is a Turkish politician of Armenian descent. He is a Member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey for the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) representing Diyarbakır. He became one of the firs ...
(born 1972), politician
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Artin Penik
Artin Penik (1921 – August 15, 1982) was a Turkish-Armenian who committed suicide by self-immolation in protest of the Esenboga airport attack by the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA, also known as Third October) on Au ...
(1921–1982), committed suicide in response to
ASALA
Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) was a militant organization active between 1975 and the 1990s whose stated goal was "to compel the Turkish Government to acknowledge publicly its responsibility for the Armenian genocide ...
bombings
See also
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Armenians in Turkey
Armenians in Turkey ( tr, Türkiye Ermenileri; hy, Թուրքահայեր, also Թրքահայեր, "Turkish Armenians"), one of the indigenous peoples of Turkey, have an estimated population of 50,000 to 70,000, down from a population of over 2 ...
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List of Ottoman Armenians
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Lists of Armenians
This is a list of notable Armenians.
Historical
* List of Armenian monarchs
By country
;Americas
* List of Armenian Americans
* List of Armenian Canadians
;Caucasus
* List of Azerbaijani Armenians
* List of Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh
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Armenians in Istanbul
Armenians in Istanbul ( hy, Պոլսահայեր, ''Bolsahayer''; tr, İstanbul Ermenileri) are a major part of the Turkish Armenian community and historically one of the largest ethnic minorities of Istanbul, Turkey. The city is often referre ...
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Armenian
Armenian may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to Armenia, a country in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia
* Armenians, the national people of Armenia, or people of Armenian descent
** Armenian Diaspora, Armenian communities across the ...