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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 Tu ...
, 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 The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University) ...
where Turkish minorities have been established. They include people of Turkish descent born in other countries whose roots are in those countries. For Ottoman people see
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Archaeologists

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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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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 ...
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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 gr ...
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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. Private life Çambel was born in Berlin, German Empire o ...
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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 Mü ...
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Yunus Nadi Abalıoğlu Yunus Nadi Abalıoğlu (1879, Fethiye – 28 June 1945) was a renowned Turkish people, Turkish journalist and the founder of the newspaper ''Cumhuriyet''. He was known to be a sympathizer of the Nazi Germany, Nazi regime before the war, as he pu ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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-Turkism a ...
* Süreyya Ağaoğlu * Zeynep Ahunbay *
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 the ...
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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 influences ...
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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 ...
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Mustafa Akyol Mustafa Akyol (born 20 February 1972) is a Turkish writer and journalist. He is the author of ''Islam without Extremes: A Muslim Case for Liberty'', long-listed in 2012 for the Lionel Gelber Prize, a literary award for the world's best non-fict ...
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Alev Alatlı Alev Alatlı (born 1944 in Menemen) is a Turkish columnist and bestselling novelist. Early years She was born 1944 in the town of Menemen in western Turkey to an officer's family. She spent her childhood in Japan, where her father was appointed ...
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Sabahattin Ali Sabahattin Ali (25 February 1907 – 2 April 1948) was a Turkish novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. Early life He was born in 1907 in Eğridere township (now Ardino in southern Bulgaria) of the Sanjak of Gümülcine (now ...
* Fikri Alican * Ahmet Altan *
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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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 ...
* Melih Cevdet Anday *
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 the ...
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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 cons ...
* Ayşe Arman *
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 ...
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Ömer Asan Ömer Şükrü Asan (born May 28, 1961) is a Turkish 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 ''Pontos Kült� ...
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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 gr ...
* Bülent Atalay * Oğuz Atay *
İsmet Atlı İsmet Atlı (1931 – 4 April 2014) was a Turkish Olympic medalist sports wrestler in the Light heavyweight class and a trainer. He won the gold medal in Men's Freestyle wrestling at the 1960 Olympics. He was born 1931 in � ...
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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 ...
* Mustafa Balel *
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 ...
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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 worke ...
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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 *
Ali Bayramoğlu Ali Bayramoğlu (born 1956), is a Turkish writer and political commentator. He was a columnist in the Turkish daily newspaper Yeni Safak, writing from a liberal pro-Islamic viewpoint. He has campaigned against ultra- nationalism, militarism and r ...
* Ataol Behramoğlu *
İlhan Berk İlhan Berk (18 November 1918 – 28 August 2008) was a leading Turkish poet. He was a dominant figure in the postmodern current in Turkish poetry (termed, "İkinci Yeni"; ''"The second new generation"'') and was very influential among Turkish l ...
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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 pro ...
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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 po ...
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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 Kemal ...
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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 w ...
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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 ...
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Rıza Tevfik Bölükbaşı Rıza Tevfik Bey (Rıza Tevfik Bölükbaşı after the Turkish Surname Law of 1934; 1869 – 31 December 1949) was an Ottoman and later Turkish philosopher, poet, politician of liberal signature and a community leader (for some members among t ...


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Peride Celal Peride Celal Yönsel (June 10, 1916 – June 15, 2013), commonly known as Peride Celal or Peride Celâl, was a Turkish novelist and story writer. Her work has won major awards such as the Sedat Simavi Literature Award in 1977, and the Orhan Kemal ...
* Ahmet Hakan Coşkun *
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 ...
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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 1 ...
* Ahmet Çakar *
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 daught ...
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Cengiz Çandar Cengiz Çandar (born 1948) is a Turkish journalist, senior columnist, and a Middle East expert. He is the author of Turkey’s Neo-Ottomanist Moment - A Eurasianist Odyssey (Policy Series) (2021); Turkey's Mission Impossible: War and Peace with t ...
* Hakan Çelik *
Muazzez İlmiye Çığ Muazzez İlmiye Çığ (born 20 June 1914) is a Turkish archaeologist and Assyriologist who specializes in the study of Sumerian civilization. She stirred controversy in the Muslim world and received world-wide media coverage in 2006 with her a ...
* Emin Çölaşan *
Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca (26 August 1914, Istanbul – 15 October 2008, Istanbul) was one of the most prolific Turkish poets of the Turkish Republic with more than 60 collections of his poems published as of 2007. He was a laureate of the St ...
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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 1 ...
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Asli Erdogan Asli may refer to: *Orang Asli, the indigenous people in Malaysia *Aslı, a Turkish feminine given name *Asli (surname) *Asli Demirguc-Kunt Asli Demirgüç-Kunt is a Turkish economist. She is a non-resident Fellow at the Center for Global Developm ...
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Bikem Ekberzade Bikem Ekberzade (born 1971, Istanbul) is a Turkish journalist, photojournalist and documentary photographer. She is known for her work on forced migration in the Balkans, Africa, Central Asia, and the Middle East. Since the 1990s, she has worked ...
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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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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 ...
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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, and Sapp ...
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Mehmet Eroğlu Mehmet Eroğlu (born 2 October 1948) is a Turkish novelist. His most known work is ''Issızlığın Ortasında'' ("In the Midst of Solitude"). Life He was born on 2 August 1948 in İzmir. In 1971, he graduated from the Department of Civil Eng ...
* Fahir Ersin *
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 is ...
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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, she ...
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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 Rahmi ...
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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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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. This ...
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Halil Gür Halil Gür (born 14 February 1951, in Karakese) is a Turkish-born Dutch writer who made his debut with his novel 'Crazy Mustafa and other stories' in 1984. He was the pioneer of a large group of Dutch writers from non-western cultures. The fac ...
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Uğur Gürses Uğur Gürses is a Turkish financial columnist. He has been writing financial and economic articles for daily Radikal ''Radikal'' () was a daily liberal Turkish language newspaper, published in Istanbul. From 1996 it was published by Aydın D ...
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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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Ahmet Haşim Ahmet Haşim (also written as Ahmed Hâşim; 1884? – 4 June 1933) was an influential Turkish Turkish may refer to: *a Turkic language spoken by the Turks * of or about Turkey ** Turkish language *** Turkish alphabet ** Turkish people ...
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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 ...
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Ahmed Hulusi Ahmed Hulusi (born 1945 in Istanbul, Turkey) is an Islamic author from Turkey, whose works focus on philosophical and religious ideas. Biography He was born on 21 January 1945 in Cerrahpaşa, Istanbul, and was named Ahmed, meaning ‘highly p ...
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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 po ...
* Atilla İlhan * Sabit Ince *
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 centr ...
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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 ...
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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 k ...
* Metin Kaçan *
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 196 ...
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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 i ...
* Ceyhun Atuf Kansu *
Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu (also rendered Yakub Kadri; ; 27 March 1889 – 13 December 1974) was a Turkish novelist, journalist, diplomat, and member of parliament.Edebiyatogretmeni.net ''Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu'' Google translated' Biograph ...
* Orhan Karaveli *
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 Nobel ...
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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 ...
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Necip Fazıl Kısakürek Ahmet Necip Fazıl Kısakürek (May 26, 1904 – May 25, 1983) was a Turkish poet, novelist, playwright, and Islamist ideologue. He is also known simply by his initials NFK. He was noticed by the French philosopher Henri Bergson, who later b ...
* Ahmet Taner Kışlalı *
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 wr ...
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Doğan Kuban Doğan Kuban (10 April 1926 – 22 September 2021) was a Turkish architectural historian. Biography Kuban was born in Paris to a Kurdish family. He received his bachelor's degree in architecture from Istanbul Technical University (ITU). Shortly ...
* Onat Kutlar *
Zülfü Livaneli Ömer Zülfü Livaneli (born 20 June 1946), is a Turkish musician, author, poet, and politician. Livaneli was imprisoned several times during the 1971 Turkish coup d'état because of his political views and had to leave Turkey in 1972 and wen ...
* Perihan Mağden *
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 clim ...
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Uğur Mumcu Uğur Mumcu (; 22 August 1942 – 24 January 1993)
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Nezihe Muhiddin Nezihe Muhiddin Tepedelengil (1889 – 10 February 1958) was a Turkish women's rights activist, suffragette, journalist, writer and political leader. In the 20th century Ottoman Empire, Nezihe Muhiddin was a pioneer of the women's movement who ...
* Münejjim Bashi * Behçet Necatigil *
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 1 ...
* Sevin Okyay *
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 Europe is a large peninsula conventionally consi ...
* Irfan Orga *
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, an ...
* Setenay Özbek *
İsmet Özel İsmet Özel (born 19 September 1944, in Kayseri) is a Turkish poet and writer. Early years Özel is a son of a police officer from Söke. He attended primary and secondary school in Kastamonu, Çankırı and Ankara. He attended classes at ...
* Ertuğrul Özkök *
İskender Pala İskender Pala (born 1958, in Turkey) is a Turkish Divan (Ottoman) Poetry Professor and author of best seller novels. He also used to write a column in the Turkish daily newspaper '' Zaman''. İskender Pala graduated from Istanbul Universitybr>Fac ...
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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 lang ...
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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 Kurdi ...


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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 Circassian mother, Faika Özer writes poetry and novels, with a release of more than ten books. ...
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Ali Riza Seyfi ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib ( ar, عَلِيّ بْن أَبِي طَالِب; 600 – 661 CE) was the last of four Rightly Guided Caliphs to rule Islam (r. 656 – 661) immediately after the death of Muhammad, and he was the first Shia Imam. ...
* Ugur Soldan *
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 ...
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Elif Şafak Elif Shafak ( tr, Elif Şafak, ; 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 19 works. She is best known for her no ...
* Aşık Veysel Şatıroğlu *
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 his ...
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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 Galatasa ...
* Mahzuni Şerif *
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 ...
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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 an ...
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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 ...
* Abdülhak Hâmid Tarhan *
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 yea ...
* Neyzen Tevfik *
Arzu Toker Arzu Toker (born 1952) is a German-speaking writer, journalist, publicist and translator of Turkish descent. Biography Toker was born in 1952 in Halfeti, Turkey. She moved to Germany in 1974, where she has lived ever since. Early 2007, she a ...
* Metin Toker *
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 God ...
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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 ...
* Osman Nuri Topbaş *
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 ...
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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 novel ...
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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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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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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 * H ...
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Serhat Ulueren Serhat Ulueren (born 1969 in Istanbul, Turkey) is a sports reporter and journalist, a native of Turkey. Serhat Ulueren started his journalism career in 1992. He is currently the director of Turkish football programme Telegol, screened every Sund ...
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Recep Uslu Recep Uslu is a Turkish Turkish may refer to: *a Turkic language spoken by the Turks * of or about Turkey ** Turkish language *** Turkish alphabet ** Turkish people, a Turkic ethnic group and nation *** Turkish citizen, a citizen of Turkey *** Tu ...
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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 (born 1 ...
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Bahriye Üçok Bahriye Üçok (1919 – October 6, 1990) was a 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 Trabzon, Bahriye � ...
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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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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 ...
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Sadık Yemni Sadık Yemni (born Istanbul, 1951) is a Dutch science fiction writer. Yemni is the author of 22 novels published in the Turkish language, as well as a variety of short stories, essays, plays, and film scripts. He is known particularly for ''De roos ...
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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 an ...
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Can Yücel Can Yücel (; August 21, 1926 – August 12, 1999) was a Turkish poet noted for his use of colloquial language. Biography Can Yücel was the son of a former Minister of National Education, Hasan Âli Yücel, who left his mark on the history of ...
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Feridun Zaimoğlu Feridun Zaimoğlu (born 4 December 1964, in Bolu) is a German author and visual artist of Turkish descent. Since 1995 Zaimoğlu has become one of the important poets of contemporary German language. His central themes are the problems of the sec ...
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Ragıp Zarakolu Ragıp Zarakolu (born 1948) is a Turkish human rights activist and publisher who has long faced legal harassment for publishing books on controversial subjects in Turkey, especially on minority and human rights in Turkey. Biography Ragıp Zar ...
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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 Zafer ...
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Zülfü Livaneli Ömer Zülfü Livaneli (born 20 June 1946), is a Turkish musician, author, poet, and politician. Livaneli was imprisoned several times during the 1971 Turkish coup d'état because of his political views and had to leave Turkey in 1972 and wen ...


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Sabiha Gökçen Sabiha Gökçen (; 22 March 1913 – 22 March 2001) was a Turkish aviator. During her flight career, she flew around 8,000 hours and participated in 32 different military operations. She was the world's first female fighter pilot, aged 23. As an ...
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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 in ...
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Murat Öztürk (aviator) Murat Öztürk (1953 in Konya – 19 May 2013 in Adana) was a Turkish professional aerobatics pilot and former camera operator. Early life Murat Öztürk was born 1953 in Konya. He worked as a news camera operator at the state-run television ch ...
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in the official website of the Naval Air Base Command of the 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 (Nazım ...
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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, ...
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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 Miss Universe 1932 in Spa, Belgium and thus became Turkey ...
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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 and ...
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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 as ...
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Çağla Kubat Çağla Kubat (; born 16 November 1978) is a Turkish actress, model, windsurfer and beauty pageant titleholder. She is member of Fenerbahçe sailing & windsurfing team. She is 5 feet 10 (1.80m) tall. She was born in İzmir. She graduated from ...
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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 t ...
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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 2008. She represented Turkey at the Miss World 2008 Miss World 2008, the 58th edition of the Miss Wo ...
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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'', and won the title Miss Turkey 1970. The next year, she represented her country at th ...


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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 education ...
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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 attended ...
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Serdar Bilgili Serdar Bilgili (born 1963) is a businessman who served as the president of the Istanbul-based football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''footbal ...
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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 ...
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İlhan Cavcav İlhan Cavcav (4 October 1935 – 22 January 2017) was the chairman of Turkish club Gençlerbirliği in Ankara, Turkey for almost 40 years until his death. He was known for his hard negotiation tactics with the big clubs in Turkey and scouting ab ...
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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 elem ...
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Nejat Eczacıbaşı Mehmet Nejat Ferit Eczacıbaşı (; January 5, 1913–October 6, 1993) was a chemist, industrialist, entrepreneur and philanthropist, and a second-generation member of the notable Turkish Eczacıbaşı family. He was the founder of Eczacıba ...
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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 and ...
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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 Basketba ...
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Rahmi Koç Mustafa Rahmi Koç (born 9 October 1930) is a Turkish businessman. In 2016, Forbes ranked him No. 906 richest person in the world with a net worth of $2.6 billion. In 2013, he was the Turkish person who paid the most income taxes in his cou ...
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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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Temel Kotil Temel Kotil (born 1959 in Rize, Turkey) is an aeronautical engineer and currently the CEO of Turkish Aerospace Industries. Previously, he served as the CEO of Turkish Airlines from April 2005 to October 2016. He graduated in Aeronautical Engine ...
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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 ...
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Ahmet Mücahid Ören Ahmet Mücahid Ören (born 1972), is the chairman and current CEO of İhlas Holding, Ören studied economics at Anadolu University and also trained as a computer systems specialist. Ören is a naturalised citizen of the United States and had ...
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Enver Oren Enver is both a masculine given name and a surname. In Turkish, Albanian, Bosnian and Crimean Tatar, it is the transliteration of the Arabic name '' Anwar'', which means "luminous". Notable people with the name include: Given name * Enver Ablaev ...
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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. As ...
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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 initiate ...
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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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Mehmet Sabancı Mehmet Sabancı (April 25, 1963 – November 9, 2004), a member in third generation of the renowned Sabancı family in Turkey, was a businessman. Mehmet was born on April 25, 1963 in Adana as the third child and the second son of Hacı Sabancı ...
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Ömer Sabancı Ömer Sabancı (born 1959) is a Turkish businessman and a member of the Turkey's second-wealthiest Sabancı family in third generation. He is the ex-chairman of the Turkish Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association (TÜSİAD). Due to the shares ...
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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 Tars ...
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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's ...
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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 ...
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Kemal Şahin Kemal Şahin is a Turkish–German entrepreneur, a textile tycoon, and founder and CEO of Şahinler Holding. He is also an environmental activist against erosion. Early life Şahin (which means falcon in Turkish) was born in 1955 to a poor fam ...
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Faruk Süren Faruk Süren (born 1945) is a Turkish of Aramean (Syriac) origin businessman and former chairman of the Turkish sports club Galatasaray. Süren was born in Istanbul as Faruk Sürenyan. He went to Deutsche Schule Istanbul and graduated from a ...
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Yavuz Tatış Yavuz Tatış (born 1947) is a businessman from İzmir, Turkey, who has accumulated over the years one of the richest private collections in Turkey of historical artifacts dating from the Anatolian, Ancient Greek, Roman and Byzantine periods. Tat ...
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Cem Uzan Cem Uzan (born 26 December 1960, İstanbul) is a Turkish businessman and politician involved in the media and banking industries, while also chairing the social liberal Young Party (GP). His family's media empire (Uzan Group) at one time includ ...
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Ibrahim Uzel Uzel Holding (also known as Uzel Group and Uzel Corporation) was one of Turkey's oldest and largest manufacturing companies. Its main sector was agricultural machinery, although it eventually branched out into the automotive industry and real es ...
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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 Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye C ...


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Alanya

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List of governors of Alanya This is a list of District governors of Alanya, Turkey. Those marked (*) later became province governors, or '' Vali''. {, class="wikitable" , - !Number!!District Governor!!Start!!End , - , 2, , Nazmi Bey, , 15.05.1923, , 27.09.1924 , - , 3, , ...


Ankara

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Giresun

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Istanbul

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List of notable people from Istanbul This is a list of notable people hailing from the city of Istanbul. * Hrant Dink editor of an Armenian newspaper * Halide Edib Adıvar, novelist, politician * Müjde Ar, actress * Oğuz Aral, cartoonist * Bülent Arel, music producer * Duygu As ...
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List of mayors of Istanbul This is a list of mayors of Istanbul, Turkey. This covers the Ottoman Empire to the modern day; the name of the city in English is Constantinople during the Ottoman period and in the Republican era until 1930. Ottoman Empire During 1453–18 ...
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Izmir

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List of people from İzmir This is a list of famous people from İzmir, Turkey. * Rita Abatzi (1914–1969) – Greek rebetiko singer * Kayahan Açar (1949–2015), singer, composer and lyricist * Sezen Aksu – (born 1954), Turkish singer–songwriter, musician, re ...
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List of mayors of Mersin The following list is the list of mayors of Mersin, Turkey after the proclamation of Turkish republic. The mayors References {{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Mayors Of Mersin * Mersin Mersin (), also known as İçel, is a large city and a port ...
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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:''Mü ...
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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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Seyhan Kurt Seyhan Kurt is a French-Turkish poet, writer, anthropologist and sociologist. Biography He was born in the commune of Bourgoin-Jallieu in Grenoble, France. He studied at the École de Jean Jaurès in Lyon. He studied painting in France and dr ...
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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 and ...


Zile

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List of mayors of Zile {{Use dmy dates, date=March 2020 This is a list of mayors of Zile, Turkey. Governors as mayors 1923–1960 After the proclamation of the republic on 29 October 1923, the governor of the city was charged with the duties as deputy mayor. With th ...


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Australia

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Tansel Başer Tansel Başer (born 17 April 1978 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) is a former Australian-Turkish footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football ...
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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 Legisl ...
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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 f ...
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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 ...
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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 of ...
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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 perso ...
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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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Ramazan Tavşancıoğlu Ramazan Tavşancıoğlu (born 7 June 1984 in Melbourne, Australia) is a Turkish Australian footballer who plays for Nunawading City FC in the National Premier Leagues Victoria 3. He plays as a defender. Club career A youth player at the Mel ...
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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 Th ...
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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-Turkism a ...
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Rasim Başak Rasim Başak (born Ruslan Avleev on 17 February 1980) is a retired Azerbaijani-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 Azeri father but als ...
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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, (educational ...
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Servet Çetin Servet Çetin (born 17 March 1981) is a Turkish 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 height and strength. ...
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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 boxing, professional boxer(Azerbaijanis, Azerbaijani origin). As a professional boxer, Sam won the European Boxing Union, EBU,WBC international and WBC Med ...
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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 studi ...


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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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Ayşegül Aldinç Ayşegül Aldinç (; born 28 September 1957) is a Turkish singer and actress. Life and career She is the daughter of journalist and sports writer Orhan Aldinç and painting teacher Süheyla Aldinç. Growing in Cihangir, Due to the works of her ...
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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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Nejat Biyediç Nejat (and its variants Necat and Nedžad) is a male name of Turkish language, Turkish origin. Nejat might be derived from the German word "Naja" meaning "well" or "Nadja" meaning "hope". The name might be derived from the Persian word "Nezhad" m ...
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Hüseyin Beşok Hüseyin Beşok (born 8 February 1975) is a retired Turkish professional basketball player. Standing at 2.11 m (6 ft 11 in) in height and 120 kg (265 lbs) in weight, he used to play as center. Professional career A solid big man, ...
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Ömer Çatkıç Ömer Çatkıç (born 15 October 1974 in Eskişehir) is a Turkish former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. His last club was Antalyaspor in the Turkish Süper Lig. He played for Eskişehirspor, Gaziantepspor, Gençlerbirliği ...
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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 ...
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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. I ...
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Coşkun Göğen Coşkun Göğen (born June 14, 1946, Samatya, Istanbul) is a Turkish film and theatre actor.
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Sedat Kapanoğlu SEDAT ("Space Environment DATa System") provides access to near-original satellite data on the space environment in order to perform analyses and queries needed for evaluation of space environment hazards. History The development was performed b ...
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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 Basketball positions, po ...
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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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Süleyman Memnun Süleyman Memnun (born 15 July 1958 in Yugoslavia) is a Turkish motorcycle racer. Memnun started his racing career in 1977 as a motocross racer. He was the first Turkish rider in Tunisia, Dubai rallies in 1996, 1997 and 1998. Memnun has wo ...
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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 (basketball), power forward and Center (basketball), center. Okur is known for his three-point shooting and abili ...
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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 All ...
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Cem Uzan Cem Uzan (born 26 December 1960, İstanbul) is a Turkish businessman and politician involved in the media and banking industries, while also chairing the social liberal Young Party (GP). His family's media empire (Uzan Group) at one time includ ...


Brazil

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Bulgaria


Canada

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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 w ...
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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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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 ...
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Arda Ocal Arda Ocal ( tr, Arda Öcal; born May 7, 1981) is a Canadian television personality, broadcaster, announcer, and writer. He previously worked in WWE under the stage name Kyle Edwards, as well as the host of Aftermath TV on Sportsnet 360 and The MSG ...
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Cuba

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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 ...


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Nej Adamson Nej Adamson (born 23 December 1958), also credited as Nejdet Salih, is a British actor. Career Born in London, Adamson is of Turkish Cypriot descent. He played Ali Osman in the BBC soap opera, '' EastEnders'', a role he played from the series' ...
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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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Hussein Chalayan Hussein Chalayan, (; tr, Hüseyin Çağlayan ; born 12 August 1970) is a British-Cypriot fashion designer. He has won the British Designer of the Year twice (in 1999 and 2000) and was awarded the MBE in 2006. Chalayan is currently teaching ...
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Alkan Çağlar Alkan Boudewijn de Beaumont Chaglar (born August 5, 1981 in London) is a Canadians, Canadian and United Kingdom, British journalist. He used to be editor and columnist for the Turkish Cypriot weekly bilingual (English-Turkish) newspaper ''Toplum Pos ...
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Reşat Çağlar Mr. Reşat Çağlar is a diplomat from the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. He served as the ''de facto'' TRNC Chief of Mission to the United Nations from 2002 to 2007, when he was replaced by Kemal Gökeri (though as the UN does not recog ...
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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 sovere ...
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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 interna ...
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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 ...
* Kıbrıslı Mehmed Kamil Pasha *
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 ...
* Yılmaz Orhan *
Leon Osman Leon Osman (born 17 May 1981) is an English former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He spent almost all of his career at Everton, making 433 appearances and scoring 57 goals. Earlier in his career he spent time on loan at ...
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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 Trabzonsp ...
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Ziynet Sali Ziynet Sali Safter (born 29 April 1975) is a Turkish-Cypriot singer who also holds British citizenship. Her later works contain pop elements while her earlier works also had rebetiko and classical Turkish music themes. Sali was born in Nicosia ...
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Osman Türkay Osman Türkay (born February 16, 1927, in Ozanköy – 2001) was a Turkish Cypriot poet and was a nominee for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988. After completing his studies at a private school in Kyrenia, Türkay went to London where he rea ...
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Vamık Volkan Vamık D. Volkan, M.D., DFLAPA, FACPsa, (born 1932 in Lefkoşa, Cyprus) is a Turkish Cypriot psychiatrist, internationally known for his 40 years work bringing together conflictual groups for dialogue and mutual understanding. Among his many ot ...
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Fatima Whitbread Fatima Whitbread (' Vedad; 3 March 1961) is a British retired javelin thrower. She broke the world record with a throw of in the qualifying round of the 1986 European Athletics Championships in Stuttgart, and became the first British athl ...
* Derviş Zaim


Denmark

* Yildiz Akdogan * Hasan Al * Yasin Avcı *
Saban Özdogan Saban or Šaban may refer to: People * Saban (name), for people with the name * Sabans, a small indigenous ethnic group of Sarawak, Malaysia *Şaban, a Turkish film character Other uses * Saban Capital Group, a private investment firm investing ...
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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

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Seyhan Kurt Seyhan Kurt is a French-Turkish poet, writer, anthropologist and sociologist. Biography He was born in the commune of Bourgoin-Jallieu in Grenoble, France. He studied at the École de Jean Jaurès in Lyon. He studied painting in France and dr ...
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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 French, ...


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

* Erol Onaran *
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

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İhsan Doğramacı Professor İhsan Doğramacı (3 April 1915 – 25 February 2010) was a Turkish paediatrician, entrepreneur, philanthropist, educationalist and college administrator of Iraqi Turkmen descent born in today's Erbil, Iraq then Ottoman Emp ...
* Sinan Erbil *
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 sculptu ...
* Mehmet Türkmehmet *
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 ...
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Prince Zeid bin Ra'ad Prince Zeid bin Ra'ad bin Zeid al-Hussein ( ar, زيد ابن رعد الحسين; born 26 January 1964) is a Jordanian former diplomat who is the Perry World House Professor of the Practice of Law and Human Rights at the University of Pennsylvan ...


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 ...
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Umut Güzelses Umut Güzelses ( he, אומיט גונזאלס; born May 15, 1987) is a Turkish-Israeli footballer. Childhood in Israel The Güzelses family are Sephardi Jews, descendants of refugees who fled the Spanish Inquisition. They emigrated to Israel ...
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Meshulam Riklis Meshulam Riklis ( he, משולם ריקליס; 2 December 1923 – 25 January 2019) was an Israeli financier and businessman. Early years Born in Istanbul to a Russian-Jewish family, Riklis grew up in Tel Aviv, and attended the Herzliya Hebrew ...
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Berry Sakharof Berry Sakharof ( he, ברי סחרוף, ; born 7 July 1957) is an Israeli rock guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer. Sakharof is one of Israel's most popular and critically acclaimed rock musicians, and is often referred to as "the prince ...


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 people, 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, an ...
* Mehmet Günsür *
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

* Muhanna Al-Dura


Kazakhstan

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


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 finishe ...
* Ali Haydar Şen *
Güner Ureya Güner Ureya (born 6 January 1973 in Prizren, SFR Yugoslavia, today Kosovo) is a Kosovar diplomat. He is the first Kosovar Turkish diplomat to the Republic of Kosovo and first Ambassador of the Republic of Kosovo to the People's Republic of Bangla ...


Kuwait

* Dina Al-Sabah


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, 20 ...


Lebanon

* Bilal Aziz *
Ahmad Shukeiri Ahmad al-Shukeiri ( ar, أحمد الشقيري, also transliterated al-Shuqayri, Shuqairi, Shuqeiri, Shukeiry; 1 January 1908 – 26 February 1980) was the first Chairman of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, serving from 1964–1967. ...


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 Kemal ...
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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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Srgjan Kerim Srgjan Kerim ( mk, Срѓан Керим, ; tr, Sercan Kerim; born December 12, 1948) is a North Macedonia, Macedonian diplomat, economist, former Foreign Minister and President of the 62nd Session of the United Nations General Assembly. His term ...
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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 Bordeau ...
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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 (bor ...
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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 ...
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Tahsin Yazıcı Tahsin Yazıcı () (1892 in Monastir – February 11, 1971 in Ankara) was an Ottoman Army officer and later a Turkish Army general and politician. Biography He was born to his father Ali Bey and his mother Ganimet Hanım in Monastir, Ottoma ...


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: dispariti ...
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Leïla Chellabi Leïla Chellabi is a Moroccan-born French writer and digital artist who has published over 100 books. She is also a former dancer, model, radio host, and songwriter. Chellabi is also notable for being the last companion of the award-winning French ...


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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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 his ...
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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 ...


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 ...
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Sweden

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Kazım Ayvaz Kazım Ayvaz (March 10, 1938 – January 18, 2020) was a Turkish Olympic medalist sports wrestler in the Lightweight class and a trainer. He won the gold medal in Men's Greco-Roman wrestling at the 1964 Olympics and became World champion twic ...
* 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. Pro ...
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Mehmet Kaplan Mehmet Güner Kaplan (born 18 July 1971) is a Swedish politician of Turkish origin who served as Minister for Housing and Urban Development from 2014 to 2016. He is a member of the Swedish Green Party. Kaplan resigned from the Cabinet after co ...
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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 ...
* Emin Nouri *
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 Bordeau ...
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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 member ...
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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 (bor ...
* Erkan Zengin


Switzerland


Syria

* Yusuf al-Azma


United Kingdom


United States


By type


Precedence

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Turkish order of precedence The Turkish order of precedence, the following is the list of ''Turkish order of precedence'' approved by the President of Turkey and administered by the Directorate of Protocols of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This is a hierarchy of official ...


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-controll ...


Chiefs of MIT

* List of Chiefs of the MIT


Turks of net worth

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List of Turks by net worth ''List of Turkish Billionaires'' is an annual ranking by documented net worth of the wealthiest billionaires in Turkey, compiled and published in March annually by the American business magazine ''Forbes''. Methodology Each year, ''Forbes'' emp ...


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. From its foundation until January 26, 1970, the heads of the Central Bank were in the status of General Director. Thereafter the title was changed to Governor. ...


Cartoonists

* Oğuz Aral *
Mahmud A. Asrar Mahmud Anjum Asrar (born November 20, 1976 in Ankara, Turkey"About"
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Yıldıray Çınar Yıldıray Çınar is a Turkish comic book artist known for his work on the American comic book ''Noble Causes''. Career Çınar helped create a photocopy-fanzine publishing group called Capa Comics group in 1997, to which he has continued to con ...
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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 ...
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Gürbüz Doğan Ekşioğlu Gürbüz Doğan Ekşioğlu (signs his work as Gürbüz or Gurbuz) is a Turkish cartoonist and graphics designer. He was born in Mesudiye in Ordu Province, Turkey in 1954. He studied graphics at the State College of Fine Arts in İstanbul (name ...
* Ihap Hulusi Görey * Cem Kiziltug * Ulas Mangitli *
Hasip Pektas Hasip Pektas (born 1953 in Ermenek, Karaman Province, Turkey) is a Turkish Turkish may refer to: *a Turkic language spoken by the Turks * of or about Turkey ** Turkish language *** Turkish alphabet ** Turkish people, a Turkic ethnic group and nat ...
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Suat Yalaz Suat Yalaz (1 January 1932 – 2 March 2020) was a Turkish comic book artist, foremost known as the creator of the character Karaoğlan. He has also produced films based on his creation. Early career Graduated from Istanbul Academy of Fine A ...
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Cem Yılmaz Cem Yılmaz (, born 23 April 1973) is a Turkish actor, stand-up comedian, musician, filmmaker, screen writer, and cartoonist. He is best known for his films '' G.O.R.A.'' (2004), ''A.R.O.G'' (2008) and ''Yahşi Batı'' (2010), and has won two S ...


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 attended ...
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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 Arse ...
* Ahmet Kayhan Dede


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 ...
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Emel Başdoğan Emel Başdoğan (born 26 March 1960) is a Turkish celebrity chef, author of cooking and baking books, and media personality known for her television shows and publications. She was a judge on the television programme Ver Fırına, the Turkish vers ...
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Hüseyin Özer Hüseyin Özer (born 1949 in Reşadiye, Tokat Province, Turkey) is a Turkish British executive chef and restaurateur, who owns a restaurant chain based in London. Early life Hüseyin Özer was born in 1949, in a village of Reşadiye town in ...
* Deniz Orhun *
Nusret Gökçe Nusret Gökçe (; born 1983), nicknamed Salt Bae, is a Turkish butcher, chef, food entertainer and restaurateur whose technique for preparing and seasoning meat became an Internet meme in January 2017. He owns Nusr-Et, a chain of luxury steak ho ...
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Kadir Nurman Kadir Nurman (c.1933 – 24 October 2013)
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Civil servants


Composers


Diplomats


Doctors

* Fikri Alican *
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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Münci Kalayoğlu Münci Kalayoğlu is a doctor from Turkey. He was born in Ankara in 1940. In 1963 he graduated from Ankara Üniversitesi Ankara University ( tr, Ankara Üniversitesi) is a public university in Ankara, the capital city of Turkey. It was th ...
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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 ...
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Serdar Nasır Serdar Nazif Nasır is a Turkish plastic surgeon. An associate professor at the Hacettepe University Medical School in Ankara, he led the team that performed in February 2012 the second full face transplant in Turkey. Education Nasır finished ...
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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 w ...
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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 Tur ...
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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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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 o ...
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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 ...


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Hasan Âli Yücel Hasan Âli Yücel (17 December 1897 - 26 February 1961) was a Turkish education reformer and philosophy teacher who served as minister of national education of Turkey from December 1938 to August 1946. He is remembered for the foundation of Vill ...
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Hasip Pektas Hasip Pektas (born 1953 in Ermenek, Karaman Province, Turkey) is a Turkish Turkish may refer to: *a Turkic language spoken by the Turks * of or about Turkey ** Turkish language *** Turkish alphabet ** Turkish people, a Turkic ethnic group and nat ...


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Comedians

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Kemal Sunal Ali Kemal Sunal (11 November 1944 – 3 July 2000) was a Turkish actor and comedian. With '' Hababam Sınıfı'', ''Kapıcılar Kralı'' and ''Davaro'', Sunal gained large popularity amongst Turkish cinema goers and was famed for his charac ...
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Cem Yılmaz Cem Yılmaz (, born 23 April 1973) is a Turkish actor, stand-up comedian, musician, filmmaker, screen writer, and cartoonist. He is best known for his films '' G.O.R.A.'' (2004), ''A.R.O.G'' (2008) and ''Yahşi Batı'' (2010), and has won two S ...
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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), ...


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Muhsin Ertuğrul Muhsin Ertuğrul (28 February 1892 – 29 April 1979), also known as Ertuğrul Muhsin Bey, was a Turkish actor and director. Muhsin Ertuğrul, who had important contributions to both Turkish theatre and Turkish cinema, was born in İstanbul ...
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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 Galatasa ...


Environmentalists

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Kemal Şahin Kemal Şahin is a Turkish–German entrepreneur, a textile tycoon, and founder and CEO of Şahinler Holding. He is also an environmental activist against erosion. Early life Şahin (which means falcon in Turkish) was born in 1955 to a poor fam ...


Fashion designers

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Hussein Chalayan Hussein Chalayan, (; tr, Hüseyin Çağlayan ; born 12 August 1970) is a British-Cypriot fashion designer. He has won the British Designer of the Year twice (in 1999 and 2000) and was awarded the MBE in 2006. Chalayan is currently teaching ...
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Erdem Moralioğlu Erdem () is a masculine name with Uyghur language origin. In 11th century- Qutadghubilik it means "virtue, merit, kind, knowledge". Erdem may also refer to: People with the given name * Erdem Başçı, Turkish economist * Erdem Helvacıoğlu, Tu ...


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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 f ...
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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 maternal ...
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Zeki Demirkubuz Zeki Demirkubuz (born 1 October 1964 in Isparta, Turkey) is a contemporary Turkish film director, screenwriter, producer and film editor. Biography Demirkubuz dropped out of high school and started working in a textile workshop. He then worked a ...
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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 196 ...
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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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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 the N ...
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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 and ...


Film score composers

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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 G ...
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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 ''Bo ...
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Erkan Oğur Erkan Oğur (pronounced ) (born April 17, 1954) is a Turkish musician. A pioneer of fretless guitars, he invented the first fretless classical guitar in 1976.Martinelli, op. cit.Unfretted, op. cit. A composer, he has influenced many musicians w ...
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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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Özkan Uğur Raif Özkan Uğur (born October 17, 1953) is a Turkish pop musician, member of the renowned band MFÖ and an actor. He was born as the 5th child of his family. He graduated Reşat Nuri Güntekin Primary School where he met and started playing ...
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Zülfü Livaneli Ömer Zülfü Livaneli (born 20 June 1946), is a Turkish musician, author, poet, and politician. Livaneli was imprisoned several times during the 1971 Turkish coup d'état because of his political views and had to leave Turkey in 1972 and wen ...
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Melih Kibar Melih Kibar (6 September 1951 – 7 April 2005) was a Turkish people, Turkish composer. Biography Born in Istanbul, he graduated from the German High School Istanbul and studied chemical engineering at Boğaziçi University. He received a Master ...


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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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 Sab ...
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Naim Talu Mehmet Naim Talu (22 July 1919 – 15 May 1998) was a Turkish economist, banker, politician and former Prime Minister of Turkey. Biography Naim Talu was born in Istanbul in 1919. He was educated at Kabataş Erkek Lisesi. After graduating ...
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Berç Türker Keresteciyan Berç Türker (also known as Berç Türker Keresteci or Berç Keresteciyan Türker; or Berj Kerestejian, hy, Պերճ Քերեստեջյան) (1870–1949) was an Ottoman- Turkish bank executive and politician of ethnic Armenian origin. Early ...
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Durmuş Yılmaz Durmuş Yılmaz is a Turkish economist and was the Governor of the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey between 2006 and 2011. He served as a Member of Parliament for the electoral district of Uşak since the June 2015 general election, as ...


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Historians

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Abdülhak Adnan Adıvar ʻAbd al-Ḥaqq ( ALA-LC romanization of ar, عبد الحقّ) is an Arabic male given name, and in modern usage, surname. It is built from the Arabic words '' ʻabd'' and ''al-Ḥaqq'', one of the names of God in the Qur'an, which give rise to t ...
* Zeynep Ahunbay *
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 ...
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Muazzez İlmiye Çığ Muazzez İlmiye Çığ (born 20 June 1914) is a Turkish archaeologist and Assyriologist who specializes in the study of Sumerian civilization. She stirred controversy in the Muslim world and received world-wide media coverage in 2006 with her 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-Azi ...
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Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu Ekmeleddin Mehmet İhsanoğlu (; born 26 December 1943) is a Turkish academic, diplomat and politician who was Secretary-General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) from 2004 to 2014. He is also an author and editor of academic jour ...
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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 Republic ...
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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 h ...
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Hikmet Tanyu Hikmet Tanyu (1918 – 1992) was a Turkish scientist and college professor of philosophy and history of religions who specialized in Jewish religious history. He studied in Israel in the 1970s and wrote a book titled ''Jews and Turks throughout H ...
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Zeki Velidi Togan Zeki Velidi Togan ( ba, Әхмәтзәки Әхмәтшаһ улы Вәлиди, Äxmätzäki Äxmätşah ulı Wälidi; russian: Ахмет-Заки Ахметшахович Валидов, tr, Ahmet Zeki Velidi Togan; 1890 – 1970 in Istanbul), ...
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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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Yunus Nadi Abalıoğlu Yunus Nadi Abalıoğlu (1879, Fethiye – 28 June 1945) was a renowned Turkish people, Turkish journalist and the founder of the newspaper ''Cumhuriyet''. He was known to be a sympathizer of the Nazi Germany, Nazi regime before the war, as he pu ...
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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-Turkism a ...
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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 influences ...
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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 ...
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Mustafa Akyol Mustafa Akyol (born 20 February 1972) is a Turkish writer and journalist. He is the author of ''Islam without Extremes: A Muslim Case for Liberty'', long-listed in 2012 for the Lionel Gelber Prize, a literary award for the world's best non-fict ...
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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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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 the ...
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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 gr ...
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İsmet Atlı İsmet Atlı (1931 – 4 April 2014) was a Turkish Olympic medalist sports wrestler in the Light heavyweight class and a trainer. He won the gold medal in Men's Freestyle wrestling at the 1960 Olympics. He was born 1931 in � ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Bikem Ekberzade Bikem Ekberzade (born 1971, Istanbul) is a Turkish journalist, photojournalist and documentary photographer. She is known for her work on forced migration in the Balkans, Africa, Central Asia, and the Middle East. Since the 1990s, she has worked ...
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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 w ...
* Ahmet Çakar * Eyüp Can (journalist) *
Cengiz Çandar Cengiz Çandar (born 1948) is a Turkish journalist, senior columnist, and a Middle East expert. He is the author of Turkey’s Neo-Ottomanist Moment - A Eurasianist Odyssey (Policy Series) (2021); Turkey's Mission Impossible: War and Peace with t ...
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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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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 1 ...
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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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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 Facul ...
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Uğur Gürses Uğur Gürses is a Turkish financial columnist. He has been writing financial and economic articles for daily Radikal ''Radikal'' () was a daily liberal Turkish language newspaper, published in Istanbul. From 1996 it was published by Aydın D ...
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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 Ce ...
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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 p ...
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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 centr ...
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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 ...
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Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu (also rendered Yakub Kadri; ; 27 March 1889 – 13 December 1974) was a Turkish novelist, journalist, diplomat, and member of parliament.Edebiyatogretmeni.net ''Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu'' Google translated' Biograph ...
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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 gove ...
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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 ...
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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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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, an ...
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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 his ...
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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, ...
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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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Bahriye Üçok Bahriye Üçok (1919 – October 6, 1990) was a 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 Trabzon, Bahriye � ...
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Serhat Ulueren Serhat Ulueren (born 1969 in Istanbul, Turkey) is a sports reporter and journalist, a native of Turkey. Serhat Ulueren started his journalism career in 1992. He is currently the director of Turkish football programme Telegol, screened every Sund ...
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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 ...
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Ragıp Zarakolu Ragıp Zarakolu (born 1948) is a Turkish human rights activist and publisher who has long faced legal harassment for publishing books on controversial subjects in Turkey, especially on minority and human rights in Turkey. Biography Ragıp Zar ...


Judges

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Zeki Akar Zeki Akar (born April 1, 1944 in Niksar), is a Turkish judge and served as the first president of the Court of Cassation A court of cassation is a high-instance court that exists in some judicial systems. Courts of cassation do not re-examin ...
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Mustafa Bumin Mustafa Bumin (born 26 June 1940 in Mucur, Kırşehir Province) is a former Turkish judge A judge is a person who presides over court proceedings, either alone or as a part of a panel of judges. A judge hears all the witnesses and any other ...
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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 Februa ...
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Mahmut Cuhruk Mahmut Cuhruk (1925 – 8 October 2018) was a Turkish judge. He was president of the Constitutional Court of Turkey from 2 March 1988 until 1 March 1990. Cuhruk was born in Yozgat in 1925. He died in Ankara Ankara ( , ; ), historically know ...
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Necdet Darıcıoğlu Necdet Darıcıoğlu (4 May 1926 – 14 September 2016) was a Turkish judge. He was born in Antalya. He was president of the Constitutional Court of Turkey from 2 March 1990 until 4 May 1991. He died in Ankara Ankara ( , ; ), historically k ...
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Hakkı Ketenoğlu Hakkı Ketenoğlu (1906 - 1977) was a Turkish judge A judge is a person who presides over court proceedings, either alone or as a part of a panel of judges. A judge hears all the witnesses and any other evidence presented by the barristers o ...
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Orhan Onar Orhan Onar (1923 – 26 October 2009) was a Turkish judge. Onar was born in Ankara. He served as President of the Constitutional Court of Turkey The Constitutional Court of Turkey ( tr, , sometimes abbreviated as ''AYM'') is the highest lega ...
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Mustafa Yücel Özbilgin Mustafa Yücel Özbilgin (June 20, 1942 – May 17, 2006) was a Turkish supreme court magistrate, who was shot dead in the Turkish Council of State courtroom in Ankara, Turkey on May 17, 2006, by Alparslan Arslan.Yekta Güngör Özden Yekta Güngör Özden (born 1932) is a Turkish people, Turkish judge, and former president of the Constitutional Court of Turkey. He was born in Niksar, a town in Tokat Province, Tokat province of Turkey, in 1932. He was the president of the Const ...
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Ahmet Necdet Sezer Ahmet Necdet Sezer (; born 13 September 1941) is a Turkish statesman and judge who served as the tenth president of Turkey from 2000 to 2007. Previously he was president of the Constitutional Court of Turkey from 1998 to 2002. The Grand Nationa ...
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Tülay Tuğcu Tülay Tuğcu (born June 12, 1942 in Ankara) is a retired Turkish judge. She was the President of the Constitutional Court of Turkey, Chief Justice of Turkey. She retired on June 12, 2007. Biography Tuğcu was born in Ankara and attended TE ...
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Abdurrahman Yalçınkaya Abdurrahman Yalçınkaya ( ; ; born 10 March 1950 in Şanlıurfa, Turkey) is a high-ranking Turkish judge and the former Chief Public Prosecutor (between 2007–2011) of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Turkey. Since the end of his term on 2011, ...


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Hicri Fişek Hicri Fişek (22 September 1918 – 26 February 2002) was a Turkish professor of international law. He founded the "Tevfik Fikret" high-school in Ankara (1964).
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Mehmet Ali Şahin Mehmet Ali Şahin (born 16 September 1950) is a Turkish politician. He was the Speaker of the Parliament of Turkey from 2009 to 2011. He was a member of the parliament for three terms from Istanbul Province and from Antalya Province of the ru ...
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Köksal Toptan Köksal Toptan (born 1943, in Rize) is a Turkish lawyer, politician and a member of the Justice and Development Party. He earlier served as government minister in three cabinets. He was the speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey betw ...
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Hayati Yazıcı Hayati Yazıcı (b. 23 May 1952, Çayeli, Rize) is a Turkish lawyer and politician. He served as Turkey's Minister of Customs and Trade. Biography Hayati Yazıcı graduated in 1975 from the School of Law at Istanbul University. Starting of ...


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Sermet Erkin Sermet Erkin (born 1957) is a well-known Turkish stage magician, journalist and former theatre actor. Early years Sermet Erkin was born in Karamürsel town of Kocaeli Province in 1957. His name was given by the husband of famous singer Safiye ...
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Ertuğrul Işınbark Mehmet Ertuğrul Işınbark (July 24, 1940 – May 28, 2014), aka Mandrake, was a well-known Turkish stage magician. Early years He was born in Fatih, Istanbul on July 24, 1940. His father was a director at the mint. He was inspired by a magic ...
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İlkay Özdemir İlkay Özdemir (born 1981) is a Turkish stage magician. Early years In 2001, during her study of Economics at the university, she jobbed for psychiatrist Dr. Selim Başarır. Her employer, an experienced amateur magician, inspired her in stage ...
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Zati Sungur Hasan Zati Sungur (March 10, 1898 – July 6, 1984) was an internationally recognized Turkish stage magician. Early years Hasan Zati Sungur was born in Bursa on March 10, 1898. He got interested in stage magic during his primary school years. He ...


Mathematicians

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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 California, ...
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Cahit Arf Cahit Arf (; 24 October 1910 – 26 December 1997) was a Turkish mathematician. He is known for the Arf invariant of a quadratic form in characteristic 2 (applied in knot theory and surgery theory) in topology, the Hasse–Arf theorem ...
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Feza Gürsey Feza Gürsey (; April 7, 1921 – April 13, 1992) was a Turkish mathematician and physicist. Among his most prominent contributions to theoretical physics, his works on the Chiral model and on SU(6) are most popular. Early life Feza Gürsey ...
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Halil Mete Soner Halil Mete Soner is a Turkish American mathematician born in Ankara. Soner's current research interests are nonlinear partial differential equations; asymptotic analysis of Ginzburg-Landau type systems, viscosity solutions, and mathematical fi ...
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Ayşe Soysal Ayşe Soysal (born June 24, 1948) is a Turkish mathematician. She was the president of Boğaziçi University in Istanbul during 2004 to 2008. Life and career Born in 1948, she received her high school diploma in 1967 from the American College for ...
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Tosun Terzioğlu Tosun Terzioğlu (13 March 1942 − 23 February 2016) was a Turkish mathematician and academic administrator. Terzioğlu was born in İstanbul, Turkey. He graduated from Robert College in 1961. He studied mathematics at Newcastle University, UK a ...
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'Abd al-Hamīd ibn Turk (fl. 830), known also as ( ar, ابومحمد عبدالحمید بن واسع بن ترک الجیلی) was a ninth-century Muslim mathematician. Not much is known about his life. The two records of him, one by Ibn Nadim and the other by al-Q ...
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Cem Yıldırım Cem Yalçın Yıldırım (born 8 July 1961) is a Turkish mathematician who specializes in number theory. He obtained his B.Sc from Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey and his PhD from the University of Toronto in 1990. His advisor ...
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Shlomo Gazit Shlomo Gazit ( he, שלמה גזית; 22 October 1926 – 8 October 2020) was an Israeli military officer and academic. A Major General in the Israel Defense Forces, he headed Israel's Military Intelligence Directorate. He later served as Presid ...
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military intelligence Military intelligence is a military discipline that uses information collection and analysis approaches to provide guidance and direction to assist commanders in their decisions. This aim is achieved by providing an assessment of data from ...
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Ben-Gurion University Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) ( he, אוניברסיטת בן-גוריון בנגב, ''Universitat Ben-Guriyon baNegev'') is a public research university in Beersheba, Israel. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev has five campuses: the ...
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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 (Nazım ...
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Büşra Duran Gündüz Bushra is an Arabic feminine given name meaning "good news", "omen", or "perfect". Variants include alternatively spelled as Boshra, and the Turkish Büşra, which was among the top five names given to girls born in Turkey in the last decade. This ...
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Vildan Atasever Vildan Atasever (born 26 July 1981) is a Turkish film, TV and theatrical actress. Biography Vildan Atasever was born on 26 July 1981 in Bursa, Turkey. She started acting at the age of fifteen. Her first major part was in the hit revenge series ' ...
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Doğa Bekleriz Doğa Bekleriz (born 28 November 1977, Istanbul) is a Turkish model, actress, and TV presenter. She also started a singing career with a group named Adrenalin, formed with two other Turkish models, Gizem Özdilli and Nigar Talibova. Biography Sh ...
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Gülşen Bubikoğlu Gülşen Bubikoğlu (born 5 December 1954) is a Turkish actress, one of the leading ladies of Turkish cinema in the 1970s and into the early 1980s. She studied at Fatih Kız Lisesi and was a fashion model for a time. Her first leading role was in ...
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Yıldız Kaplan Yıldız Kaplan (born October 28, 1970, Bafra, Turkey) is a Turkish actress, fashion model, and pop singer. Biography She was born in Bafra Bafra is a district of Samsun Province of Turkey. It is a settlement located from the Black Sea, in ...
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Aysun Kayacı Aysun Kayacı (born May 20, 1979) is a former Turkish model, current actress and presenter. Biography Early career Aysun Kayacı started her career at the age of 15, when she appeared as receptionist hostess in commercial fairs and exhibitio ...
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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 as ...
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Çağla Kubat Çağla Kubat (; born 16 November 1978) is a Turkish actress, model, windsurfer and beauty pageant titleholder. She is member of Fenerbahçe sailing & windsurfing team. She is 5 feet 10 (1.80m) tall. She was born in İzmir. She graduated from ...
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Manolya Onur Manolya Onur, Princess Qhabl Begum Sahiba Manolya-i-Nur (1955 – 25 October 2017) was a Turkish pageant queen and model who became a princess of Berar by marriage. She was a former Miss Turkey. Career She competed in the Miss Turkey pageant in ...
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Gamze Özçelik Gamze Özçelik (born 26 August 1982) is a Turkish actress, model and TV hostess. She is best known for hit crime series " Arka Sokaklar" which played with ex husband Uğur Pektaş. Arka Sokaklar is the longest Turkish series. She played in se ...
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Jennifer Şebnem Schaefer Jennifer Simone Macide Şebnem Schaefer (known in Turkey as Şebnem Schaefer and in Germany as Jennifer Schäfer; born 9 February 1984) is a German fashion model, actress and TV presenter. Career Jennifer Şebnem Schäfer was discovered in ...
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Hale Soygazi Hale Soygazi (born 21 September 1950 ) is a Turkish actress and beauty pageant titleholder. Biography She was born on 21 September in Istanbul, Turkey in 1950. She studied French philology at the university. She was chosen as 'Miss Turkey' ...
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Filiz Ali Filiz Ali (born 30 September 1937) is a Turkish pianist and musicologist. She studied piano at the State Conservatory of Music in Ankara. Graduating from Ferhunde Erkin's class in 1958, she received a Fulbright scholarship to study in the Unite ...
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Emre Araci Emre * Emre Altuğ (born 1970), Turkish musician * * Emre Aracı (born 1968), Turkish music historian, conductor, composer * Emre Aydın (born 1981), Turkish rock singer * Emre Aşık (born 1973), Turkish footballer * Emre Zafer Barnes (bo ...
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Recep Uslu Recep Uslu is a Turkish Turkish may refer to: *a Turkic language spoken by the Turks * of or about Turkey ** Turkish language *** Turkish alphabet ** Turkish people, a Turkic ethnic group and nation *** Turkish citizen, a citizen of Turkey *** Tu ...


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Haluk Kurosman Haluk Kurosman (born 1 March 1975, Istanbul) is a Turkish music producer and co-founder (together with Hadi Elazzi) of GRGDN, a music production – management company and record label; producing, mixing and mastering the albums of successfu ...
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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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Hasan Saltık Hasan Saltık (; 1964 – 2 June 2021) was a Turkish record producer. He was the 1991 founder of Kalan Müzik, a Turkish independent record label company based in Istanbul specialized in releasing Saltık's recordings of traditional ethnic and fo ...


Notable families

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Eczacıbaşı family The Eczacıbaşı family is a dynasty of Turkish businesspeople founded by Süleyman Ferit Eczacıbaşı, a self-made wealthy pharmacist. Third generation members of the family companies in Turkey established mostly by the efforts of his son Nejat ...
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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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Köprülü family The Köprülü family ( tr, Köprülü ailesi) was a noble family of Albanian origin in the Ottoman Empire.Ivo Banac''The national question in Yugoslavia: origins, history, politics'' , Cornell University 1988 page 292. The family hailed from th ...
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Sabancı family The Sabancı family is one of the wealthiest families in Turkey according to the Forbes billionaires list of 2016, with an estimated fortune ranging between $20–30 billion. The family's main business entity was founded by Hacı Ömer Sabancı in ...


Opera singers

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Esin Afşar Esin Afşar (''née'' Sinanoğlu; 1 January 1936 – 14 November 2011) was a well-known Turkish singer and stage actress. Personal life She was born in Bari, Italy to Nüzhet Haşim Sinanoğlu, a writer and consular official of Turkey and his wi ...
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Balık sisters The Balık Sisters are an opera act composed of Turkish identical twin sisters Didem Balık and Sinem Balık (born May 21, 1974). Didem is a mezzo-soprano while Sinem is a soprano. The sisters, who claim to be the only identical twin opera sin ...
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Semiha Berksoy Semiha Berksoy (24 May 1910 – 15 August 2004) was a Turkish opera singer and paintress. Early life Semiha Berksoy was born in Çengelköy, Istanbul. Her mother was a painter. Semiha studied music and the visual arts at Istanbul Conservatory.S ...
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Burak Bilgili Burak Bilgili is a Turkish operatic bass-baritone who was born in Akşehir, a town in the Konya Province of Turkey. He has sung in leading opera houses in the United States and Europe. Initially, he studied at Mimar Sinan University in Istanbul ...
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Leyla Gencer Ayşe Leyla Gencer (, née Çeyrekgil; 10 October 192810 May 2008) was a Turkish people, 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, an ...


Painters

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List of Turkish Painters and artists This is a list of notable Turkish artists. A * Kuzgun Acar (1928-1976), sculptor * Haluk Akakçe (born 1970), contemporary artist * Onay Akbaş (born 1964), contemporary artist * Ahmet Ziya Akbulut (1869–1938), painter * Mehmet Aksoy ( ...


Philanthropists

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Adile Sultan ota, عدیلہ سلطان , house = Ottoman , house-type = Dynasty , father = Mahmud II , mother = Zernigâr Kadın , birth_date = 23 May 1826 , birth_place = Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (present day Istanbul, Tu ...
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Rahmi Koç Mustafa Rahmi Koç (born 9 October 1930) is a Turkish businessman. In 2016, Forbes ranked him No. 906 richest person in the world with a net worth of $2.6 billion. In 2013, he was the Turkish person who paid the most income taxes in his cou ...
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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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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's ...
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Photographers

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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 photographer ...
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Ömer Asan Ömer Şükrü Asan (born May 28, 1961) is a Turkish 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 ''Pontos Kült� ...
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Rahmizâde Bâhâeddin Bediz Rahmizâde Bahaeddin Bey (1875–1951), also known as Bahaettin Rahmi Bediz and Rahmi Bediz, was a Cretan Turk who was the first Turkish photographer by profession. He started his career in Kandiye, Crete in 1895, and went on to open photography ...
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Bikem Ekberzade Bikem Ekberzade (born 1971, Istanbul) is a Turkish journalist, photojournalist and documentary photographer. She is known for her work on forced migration in the Balkans, Africa, Central Asia, and the Middle East. Since the 1990s, she has worked ...
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Burhan Doğançay Burhan C. Doğançay (11 September 1929 – 16 January 2013) was a Turkish-American artist. Doğançay is best known for tracking walls in various cities across the world for half a century, integrating them in his artistic work. Biography ...
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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 ...
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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 clim ...
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Pascal Sebah Pascal, Pascal's or PASCAL may refer to: People and fictional characters * Pascal (given name), including a list of people with the name * Pascal (surname), including a list of people and fictional characters with the name ** Blaise Pascal ...
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Uğur Uluocak Yaşar Uğur Uluocak (1962 – 2 July 2003) was a Turkish outdoorsman, mountaineer, photographer, and editor. Born in 1962 in Ankara, Turkey, Uğur attended Saint Joseph High School in Istanbul, and graduated in Mechanical Engineering from ...


Physicists

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Nihat Berker Ahmet Nihat Berker (born 20 September 1949) is a Turkish scientist, theoretical chemist, physicist and emeritus professor of physics at MIT. Currently, he is the acting Dean of Engineering and Natural Sciences in Kadir Has University, Turkey ...
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Ordal Demokan Ordal Demokan (January 13, 1946 – October 29, 2004) was a Turkish physicist. Biography Born in Istanbul, Turkey, Demokan graduated from TED Ankara Koleji in 1962, and received his BSc and MSc degrees on Electrical Engineering in 1966 and 19 ...
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Tekin Dereli Tekin Dereli (November 30, 1949) is a Turkish theoretical physicist. Life and academic career He studied at Ankara Science High School and the Middle East Technical University. He was an associate professor and a Professor of Physics at Middle ...
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Feza Gürsey Feza Gürsey (; April 7, 1921 – April 13, 1992) was a Turkish mathematician and physicist. Among his most prominent contributions to theoretical physics, his works on the Chiral model and on SU(6) are most popular. Early life Feza Gürsey ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Gökhan Okan Gokhan Okan (born March 2, 1972) is a Turkish physician and author. He is European Board Certified as an associate professor dermatologist (Skin and Venereal Diseases). He took part in 23rd World Congress of Dermatology which was conducted in Va ...
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Turgay Uzer Ahmet Turgay Uzer is a Turkish-born American theoretical physicist and nature photographer. Regents' Professor Emeritus at Georgia Institute of Technology following Joseph Ford (physicist). He has contributed in the field of atomic and molecula ...
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Ismail Akbay 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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Atok Karaali ATOK (エイトック /ˈeitokku/ or /ˈeɪtɔːk/) is a Japanese input method editor (IME) produced by JustSystems, a Japanese software company. ATOK is an IME with roots from KTIS (Kana-Kanji Transfer Input System) come with JS-WORD, the Jap ...
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Karaali Rocks The Karaali Rocks () are a small group of rocks along the east side of the mainly snow-covered Coulter Heights, east of Matikonis Peak in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. They were mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. ...
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Dilhan Eryurt Dilhan Eryurt (29 November 1926 – 13 September 2012) was a Turkish astrophysicist who made major contributions to scientific research on the formation and evolution of the Sun and other main sequence stars. From 1961 to 1973, Eryurt worked fo ...


Pianists

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Fazıl Say Fazıl Say (; born 14 January 1970 in Ankara) is a Turkish pianist and composer. Life and career Fazıl Say was born in 1970. His father, Ahmet Say was an author and musicologist. His mother, Gürgün Say was a pharmacist. His grandfather F ...
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İdil Biret İdil Biret (born 21 November 1941) is a Turkish concert pianist. Education Biret began her lessons at the age of five with , who had studied under Nadia Boulanger and Alfred Cortot. When she was seven, the Turkish parliament enacted a specia ...
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Hüseyin Sermet Hüseyin Sermet (born in Istanbul, 1955) is a Turkish pianist and composer.Hüseyin Sermet.
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Admirals

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Kemal Reis Kemal Reis (c. 1451 – 1511) was an Ottoman and Turkish privateer and admiral. He was also the paternal uncle of the famous Ottoman admiral and cartographer Piri Reis, who accompanied him in most of his important naval expeditions. Backgrou ...
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Piri Reis Ahmet Muhiddin Piri ( 1465 – 1553), better known as Piri Reis ( tr, Pîrî Reis or '' Hacı Ahmet Muhittin Pîrî Bey''), was a navigator, geographer and cartographer. He is primarily known today for his maps and charts collected in his ''K ...
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Seydi Ali Reis Seydi Ali Reis (1498–1563), formerly also written Sidi Ali Reis and Sidi Ali Ben Hossein, was an Ottoman admiral and navigator. Known also as Katib-i Rumi, Galatalı or Sidi Ali Çelebi,Danışan, Gaye. 2019. “A Sixteenth-Century Otto ...
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Salih Reis Salah Rais ( tr, Salih Reis, ar, صالح ريس) (c. 1488 – 1568) was the 7th King of Algiers, an Ottoman privateer and admiral. He is alternatively referred to as ''Sala Reis'', ''Salih Rais'', ''Salek Rais'' and ''Cale Arraez'' in seve ...
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Kurtoğlu Hızır Reis Kurtoğlu Hızır Reis was an Ottoman admiral who is best known for commanding the Ottoman naval expedition to Sumatra in Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between t ...
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Uluç Ali Reis Occhiali (Giovanni Dionigi Galeni or ''Giovan Dionigi Galeni'', also ''Uluj Ali'', tr, Uluç Ali ''Reis'', later ''Uluç Ali Paşa'' and finally Kılıç Ali Paşa; 1519 – 21 June 1587) was an Italian farmer, then Ottoman privateer and ...
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Tzachas Tzachas ( gr, Τζαχᾶς, Tzachás), also known as Chaka Bey ( tr, Çaka Bey)"Tzachas" is the Hellenized form of a Turkish name which does not appear in any historical documents, but was likely "Chaka", "Chagha", or "Chaqan". The name "Chaka ...


Poets


Contemporary poets


Folk poets

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Neşet Ertaş Neşet Ertaş (1938 – 25 September 2012) was a Turkish folk music singer, lyricist, modern ashik and virtuoso of the traditional Turkish instrument the bağlama. His profession in Turkish is known as ''halk ozanı'', which literally means " ...
* Aşık Veysel Şatıroğlu *
Aşık Mahzuni Şerif Şerif Cırık, popularly known as Aşık Mahsuni Şerif, was a Turkish ashik, folk musician, composer, poet, and author.
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Zülfü Livaneli Ömer Zülfü Livaneli (born 20 June 1946), is a Turkish musician, author, poet, and politician. Livaneli was imprisoned several times during the 1971 Turkish coup d'état because of his political views and had to leave Turkey in 1972 and wen ...


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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 ...
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Nesuhi Ertegun Nesuhi Ertegun (Turkish spelling: Nesuhi Ertegün; November 26, 1917 – July 15, 1989) was a Turkish-American record producer and executive of Atlantic Records and WEA International. Early life Born in Istanbul in the Ottoman Empire, Nesuhi ...
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Haluk Kurosman Haluk Kurosman (born 1 March 1975, Istanbul) is a Turkish music producer and co-founder (together with Hadi Elazzi) of GRGDN, a music production – management company and record label; producing, mixing and mastering the albums of successfu ...
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Arif Mardin Arif Mardin (March 15, 1932 – June 25, 2006) was a Turkish-American music producer, who worked with hundreds of artists across many different styles of music, including jazz, rock, soul, disco and country. He worked at Atlantic Records for ...
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Hasan Saltık Hasan Saltık (; 1964 – 2 June 2021) was a Turkish record producer. He was the 1991 founder of Kalan Müzik, a Turkish independent record label company based in Istanbul specialized in releasing Saltık's recordings of traditional ethnic and fo ...


Religious leaders

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Mustafa Çağrıcı Mustafa Çağrıcı is a Turkish Turkish may refer to: *a Turkic language spoken by the Turks * of or about Turkey ** Turkish language *** Turkish alphabet ** Turkish people, a Turkic ethnic group and nation *** Turkish citizen, a citizen of Tu ...
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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 theology, lawyer, columnist and a former member of Turkish parliament. He has been described as a Quranist and has given ma ...
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Ali Bardakoğlu Ali Bardakoğlu (born 1952) served as the president of the Presidency of Religious Affairs ( tr, Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı) of Turkey between 2003 and 2010. Background Ali Bardakoğlu was born in 1952 in Tosya in the province of Kastamonu ...


Rabbis

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Aaron Alfandari Aaron ben Moses Alfandari ( 1700 – 1774 in Hebron) ( he, אהרן אלפנדארי) was a Talmudic writer born in Smyrna. He emigrated to the Land of Israel (Ottoman Syria at the time) in his old age, where he met Chaim Yosef David Azulai, know ...
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Yaakov Culi Rabbi Yaakov Culi (a.k.a. Kuli or Chuli; he, יעקב כולי) was a Talmudist and biblical commentator of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries who died in Constantinople on August 9, 1732. Biography He belonged to an exiled Spanish family, a ...
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Ishak Haleva Ishak Haleva (born 1940 in Istanbul, Turkey) is the current Hakham Bashi (Chief Rabbi) ( tr, Hahambaşı) of Turkey. Chief Rabbi Haleva was the deputy to David Asseo for seven years and became the new Hakham Bashi after his death in 2002.
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Joseph ibn Verga Joseph ibn Verga (Hebrew: יוסף אבן וירגה) was a Turkish rabbi and historian who lived at Adrianople at the beginning of the 16th century. He was the son of Solomon ibn Verga, author of ''Shebeṭ Yehudah'' ( Scepter of Judah) who emigr ...
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Aaron Lapapa Aaron ben Isaac Lapapa (c. 1590–1674) was an Oriental rabbi and Talmudist. He was at first rabbi at Manissa, Turkey, and at an advanced age was called to Smyrna as judge in civil affairs. In 1665, when the Sabbatai Zevi movement was at its he ...
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Judah Rosanes Judah ben Samuel Rosanes (1657–1727) was Rabbi of Constantinople and son-in-law of Abraham Rosanes I. His teachers in Talmud and rabbinics were Samuel HaLevi and Joseph di Trani the Younger. On account of his knowledge of Arabic and Turkish he w ...


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 ...
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Murat Aras Murat Aras is a Turkish screenplay writer. Born in Ankara on 4 July 1973. He went to Naval High School in Heybeliada, Istanbul and studied economics at university. His career writing for television series began in 1999 writing for one of the fi ...
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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 f ...
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Bilge Ebiri Bilge Ebiri (; born 1973) is an English-born American journalist and filmmaker. His first feature film, a comedy thriller entitled ''New Guy'', was released in 2004. Early life and education Ebiri studied film at Yale University where his thesis ...
* Türker İnanoğlu *
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 Tuncel Tayanç Kurtiz (1 February 1936 – 27 September 2013) was a Turkish theatre, movie and TV series actor, playwright, and film director. Since 1964, he acted in more than 70 movies, including many international productions. Early year ...
* Onat Kutlar * 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 the N ...
* 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 and ...
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Cem Yılmaz Cem Yılmaz (, born 23 April 1973) is a Turkish actor, stand-up comedian, musician, filmmaker, screen writer, and cartoonist. He is best known for his films '' G.O.R.A.'' (2004), ''A.R.O.G'' (2008) and ''Yahşi Batı'' (2010), and has won two S ...
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Uğur Yücel Uğur Yücel (born 26 May 1957) is a Turkish film actor, producer and director. He graduated from the Theater Department of the Istanbul Municipality Conservatory (İstanbul Belediye Konservatuarı Tiyatro Bölümü). He took part in several pla ...


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Sportspeople


Athletes

* Halil Akkaş *
Eşref Apak Eşref Apak (born 3 January 1982 in Kalecik, Ankara) is a Turkish hammer thrower. Apak was a member of Fenerbahçe Athletics in Istanbul then transferred to Enkaspor, where he was coached by Artun Talay. The tall athlete at was a student of ...
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Süreyya Ayhan Süreyya Ayhan Kop (born September 6, 1978) is a Turkish former female middle distance track runner who specialised in the 1500 metres. In November 2009, she was banned for life by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) due to her second ant ...
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Birsen Bekgöz Birsen Bekgöz (previously known under the married names Birsen Yavuz and Birsen Engin; born October 18, 1980) is a Turkish female track and field athlete competing in sprinting events. She is a member of Enkaspor athletics team. She studied at ...
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Ali Ferit Gören ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib ( ar, عَلِيّ بْن أَبِي طَالِب; 600 – 661 CE) was the last of four Rightly Guided Caliphs to rule Islam (r. 656 – 661) immediately after the death of Muhammad, and he was the first Shia Imam ...
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Özge Gürler Özge is a common female Turkish given name. In Turkish, "Özge" means "Different", "Distinct", "Unique", "Ablude", and/or "Daredevil". People * Çağıl Özge Özkul (born 1988), Turkish beauty pageant titleholder * Özge Akın (born 1985), Tu ...
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Pınar Saka Pınar Saka (born 5 November 1985) is a Turkish female track running athlete in the sprint discipline competing in the categories 100 m, 200 m and 400 m. She is the Turkish national record holder for 400 m. This time is the first time a Turkish ...
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Ruhi Sarıalp Ruhi Sarıalp (December 15, 1924 – March 3, 2001) was a Turkish track and field athlete, who competed mainly in the triple jump. He was born in Manisa. Background He competed for Turkey in the 1948 Summer Olympics held in London, Great Brita ...
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Mehmet Terzi Mehmet Terzi (born May 5, 1955) is a medal-winning former long-distance runner from Turkey, who specialized in running marathons. He served as the president of the Turkish Athletic Federation ( tr, Türkiye Atletizm Federasyonu) (TAF) for nine y ...
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Binnaz Uslu Binnaz Uslu (born March 12, 1985, in Ankara) is a retired Turkish middle-distance and long-distance runner. She was banned from sport for life in 2014, after her second doping violation. The tall athlete at is a member of Enkaspor athletics ...
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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 ...


Racing drivers

* Can Artam * Erkut Kızılırmak * Hakan Dinç *
Jason Tahincioglu Jason ( ; ) was an ancient Greek mythological hero and leader of the Argonauts, whose quest for the Golden Fleece featured in Greek literature. He was the son of Aeson, the rightful king of Iolcos. He was married to the sorceress Medea. He was ...
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Mumtaz Tahincioglu Mumtaz ( ar, ممتاز) is a name commonly used in various countries in the Muslim world, mainly Afghanistan, Brunei, Malaysia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, India and Turkey. It can also be used as a female name. ''Mumtazah'' is a related female versi ...
* Burcu Cetinkaya


Basketball coaches

* Barbaros Akkaş *
Serdar Apaydın Serdar Apaydın (born 21 October 1966 in Turkey) is a retired Turkish professional basketball player and former assistant coach of Fenerbahçe. He is the current Head Coach of Antalya B.B. He was famous with his spectacular 3 point shoots and ...
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Ergin Ataman Halil Ergin Ataman (born January 7, 1966) is a Turkish professional basketball coach. He is the current head coach of Panathinaikos of the Greek Basket League and the EuroLeague. He also coaches the Turkey men's national basketball team. During ...
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Okan Çevik Okan Çevik (born 8 June 1966 in Edirne, Turkey) is a Turkish professional basketball coach. Çevik studied at Galatasaray High School and graduated from Istanbul University Faculty of Dentistry. Coaching career Early years Çevik, began his ca ...
* Hakan Demir * Murat Didin * Orhun Ene *
Harun Erdenay Hakkı Harun Erdenay (born 27 May 1968 in Ankara) (nickname: "Pegasus") is a Turkish former professional basketball player, and former President of the Turkish Basketball Federation. As a player, he was famous for his spectacular 3-point shooti ...
* Yalçın Granit * Zafer Kalaycıoğlu *
Ahmet Kandemir Ahmad ( ar, أحمد, ʾAḥmad) is an Arabic male given name common in most parts of the Muslim world. Other spellings of the name include Ahmed and Ahmet. Etymology The word derives from the root (ḥ-m-d), from the Arabic (), from the ve ...
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Erman Kunter Erman Kunter (born 8 October 1956) is a Turkish-French former professional basketball player and coach. He most recently served as head coach of Galatasaray, of the Turkish Basketball Super League (BSL). He is well-known for being the player tha ...
* Oktay Mahmuti *
Aydın Örs Aydın Örs (born 23 July 1946 in Ankara) is a Turkish former basketball coach and former head coach of Fenerbahçe. He started to play basketball in 1963. He played for DSİ Spor and Sekerspor also played for 35 times with the Turkish national b ...
* Murat Özyer *
Cenk Renda Cenk Renda (born 10 October 1969, in Turkey) is a former Turkish professional basketball player. He played for Turkey national basketball team. The former power forward is 2.05 m tall. Currently, he is team manager of Fenerbahçe. Career * E ...
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Ufuk Sarıca Ufuk Sarıca (born June 13, 1972) is a Turkish former professional basketball player and current head coach of Pınar Karşıyaka of the Basketbol Süper Ligi (BSL). Playing career Sarıca began his career at the age of 16 at Efes Pilsen's Youth ...
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Ercüment Sunter Ercüment Sunter (born 6 January 1955) is a Turkish former national basketballer and a coach. Sunter had managed many teams in Turkish Basketball League as an experienced coach for over 20 years. Beslen, Türk Telekom B.K. (former Turkish PTT bas ...
* Levent Topsakal *
Arda Vekiloğlu Arda Vekiloğlu (born 21 January 1979, in Turkey) is a Turkish professional basketball coach and former player. He was recently head coach for Petkim Spor of the TBL. He was a part of the Turkey national basketball team. In August 2018, he signed ...
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Ceyhun Yıldızoğlu Ceyhun Yıldızoğlu (born 6 March 1967) is a Turkish professional basketball coach. He is currently coaching the Turkish pro side Çukurova Basketbol. Managing career National level * 2008–2015 Turkey * 2018–2022 Turkey Honors * Turkish ...


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Mustafa Abi Mustafa Abi (born 2 January 1979) is a Turkish professional basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of s ...
* Tutku Açık * Can Akın *
Gülşah Akkaya Gülşah Akkaya (born October 6, 1977) is a former Turkish professional woman basketball player in forward position. The 1.81 m (5' 11½") tall national player was a top scorer. Akkaya started playing basketball at the age of 13. She debuted in ...
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Cenk Akyol Cenk Akyol (born 16 April 1987) is a Turkish professional basketball coach and former player who played at the shooting guard position. He is assistant coach for Galatasaray Nef of the Turkish Basketbol Süper Ligi (BSL). Professional career On ...
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Furkan Aldemir Furkan Aldemir (born August 9, 1991) is a Turkish professional basketball player who last played for Darüşşafaka of the Turkish Basketbol Süper Ligi (BSL) and the EuroLeague. Standing at , he mainly plays the power forward position, but he c ...
* Hüseyin Alp * Can Altıntığ *
Serdar Apaydın Serdar Apaydın (born 21 October 1966 in Turkey) is a retired Turkish professional basketball player and former assistant coach of Fenerbahçe. He is the current Head Coach of Antalya B.B. He was famous with his spectacular 3 point shoots and ...
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Ender Arslan Ender Arslan (born 13 January 1983) is a Turkish professional basketball coach and former player who played at the point guard position. He is assistant coach for Bahçeşehir Koleji of the Turkish Basketbol Süper Ligi (BSL). Professional ca ...
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Ömer Aşık Ömer Faruk Aşık (; born July 4, 1986) is a Turkish former professional basketball player who last played for the Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Aşık, standing at 7'2", was sought after by many of the top Eurolea ...
* Engin Atsür *
Melike Bakırcıoğlu Melike Bakırcıoğlu (born February 24, 1987 in İstanbul, Turkey) is a Turkish female basketball player. She plays for Fenerbahçe İstanbul as forward position. She is 190 cm tall and weighs 79 kg. She is playing for Beşiktaş Cola T ...
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Doğuş Balbay Doğuş Balbay (; born 21 January 1989) is a Turkish professional basketball player and the team captain for Anadolu Efes Istanbul of the Turkish Basketbol Süper Ligi (BSL) and the EuroLeague. He is 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) tall and he plays at ...
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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 worke ...
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Rasim Başak Rasim Başak (born Ruslan Avleev on 17 February 1980) is a retired Azerbaijani-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 Azeri father but als ...
* Birkan Batuk * Emre Bayav *
Hüseyin Beşok Hüseyin Beşok (born 8 February 1975) is a retired Turkish professional basketball player. Standing at 2.11 m (6 ft 11 in) in height and 120 kg (265 lbs) in weight, he used to play as center. Professional career A solid big man, ...
* Erdal Bibo * Metecan Birsen *
Evren Büker Evren Büker (born July 6, 1985) is a Turkish professional basketball player, who lastly played for Bursaspor of the Turkish Basketball Super League (BSL). He plays at the swingman A swingman is an athlete capable of playing multiple positions ...
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Ömer Büyükaycan Ömer Büyükaycan (born 10 May 1966 in Istanbul, Turkey) is a former Turkish professional basketball player. He is 2.08 m and played power forward for the Turkey national basketball team over 130 times. He also attended Loyola University Chicago ...
* Hüsnü Çakırgil *
Arda Vekiloğlu Arda Vekiloğlu (born 21 January 1979, in Turkey) is a Turkish professional basketball coach and former player. He was recently head coach for Petkim Spor of the TBL. He was a part of the Turkey national basketball team. In August 2018, he signed ...
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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 ...
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Berkay Candan Berkay Candan (born May 22, 1993) is a Turkish professional basketball player for Bahçeşehir Koleji of the Basketbol Süper Ligi (BSL) and Basketball Champions League The Basketball Champions League (BCL) is an annual professional basketb ...
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Serhat Çetin Serhat Çetin (born 23 February 1986) is a Turkish professional basketball player, who lastly played for CSO Voluntari of the Liga Națională. Standing at , he mainly plays the small forward position but he also has the ability to play as a s ...
* Nedim Dal *
Begüm Dalgalar Begum (also begüm, bagum, begom, begam, baigum or beygum) is a royal and aristocratic title from Central and South Asia. It is the feminine equivalent of the title '' baig'' or '' bey'', which in Turkic languages means "higher official". I ...
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Hakan Demirel İsmail Hakan Demirel (born 7 May 1986) is a Turkish professional basketball player for İstanbul BB of the Turkish Basketball Super League (BSL). He is 1.91 m tall and plays the point guard position. Career He studied at Istanbul Bilgi Unive ...
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İpek Derici İpek Derici (born August 19, 1990 in Istanbul, Turkey) is a Turkish female basketball player. The young national plays for Beşiktaş at the forward position. She is tall and weighs . Derici graduated from the University of North Carolina. See ...
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Kemal Dinçer Kemal Dinçer (born 2 September 1963) is a former Turkish professional basketball player. He played for the Turkey national basketball team. He was also a member of Fenerbahçe's first Turkish Basketball League Turkish may refer to: *a Turkic ...
* Şafak Edge * Selin Ekiz * Orhun Ene *
Korel Engin Korel Engin (born April 8, 1980), aka Cori Enghusen, is an American-born Turkish female basketball player at the center position for Beşiktaş Cola Turka. At 201 cm (6'7"), she is the tallest member of the Turkish women's basketball nation ...
* 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 ...
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Harun Erdenay Hakkı Harun Erdenay (born 27 May 1968 in Ankara) (nickname: "Pegasus") is a Turkish former professional basketball player, and former President of the Turkish Basketball Federation. As a player, he was famous for his spectacular 3-point shooti ...
* Serkan Erdoğan *
Barış Ermiş Barış Ermiş (born January 3, 1985) is a Turkish professional former basketball player. Professional career On August 13, 2008, he has signed with Türk Telekom. After one season with Ermiş played for Türk Telekom, her transferred to Banv ...
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Erbil Eroğlu Erbil Eroğlu (born January 21, 1993) is a Turkish professional basketball player for Sigortam.net İTÜ BB of the Basketball Super League. He 6 ft 4.5 in (1.94 m) tall and he weighs 187 lb (85 kg). He plays the point guard ...
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Tufan Ersöz Tufan Ersöz (born 2 December 1980) is a Turkish professional basketball player from İzmir, Turkey. He is a shooting guard playing for Olin Gençlik. Professional career He was a basketball player in Efes Pilsen's youth program and he had 4 ...
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Murat Evliyaoğlu Murat Evliyaoğlu (born 2 June 1969 in Turkey) is a retired Turkish professional basketball player. He played as guard position and helped lot of times to Turkey national basketball team. The former guard is 1.94 m. Career * 1990-92 Çukurova ...
* Duygu Fırat * Samet Geyik * Kerem Gönlüm *
Zeki Gülay Zeki Gülay (born 15 August 1972 in Istanbul, Turkey) is a former Turkish basketball player. He mostly played for Fenerbahçe in his career. The center is 2.06 m tall and 129 kg weight and wore #14. Zeki Gülay was the team captain of ...
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Muratcan Güler Muratcan Güler (born February 25, 1980) is a Turkish professional former basketball player. He is currently playing for Beşiktaş of the Turkish Basketball League. He plays the point guard position and 1.88 m (6'2") tall and weighs 82 kg ( ...
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Sinan Güler Sinan Güler (born November 8, 1983) is a former Turkish professional basketball player. College career Güler played college basketball at Salt Lake Community College ( JUCO), from 2002 to 2004, and at Carroll College ( NAIA), from 2004 to 200 ...
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Barış Hersek Barış Hersek (born 26 March 1988) is a Turkish professional basketball who last played for Lokman Hekim Fethiye Belediyespor of the Turkish Basketbol Süper Ligi. He plays at the power forward position. Professional career Hersek started his ...
* Yasemin Horasan *
Ersan İlyasova Ersan İlyasova (born 15 May 1987) is a Turkish professional basketball player who last played for the Utah Jazz of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He has previously played in Turkey, Spain and the NBA Development League. Professional ...
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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. Pro ...
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Tuğçe İnöntepe Tuğçe İnöntepe (born February 15, 1987, in Istanbul, Turkey) is a Turkish female basketball player. The young national plays for Mersin Büyükşehir Belediyesi on loan from Fenerbahçe Istanbul with her team-mate Tuğçe Murat. She is 172&n ...
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J–Z

* Zafer Kalaycıoğlu *
Enes Kanter Enes Kanter Freedom (; born Enes Kanter; May 20, 1992) is a professional basketball player who last played for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Born in Switzerland to Turkish parents, he was raised in Turkey and m ...
* İlkan Karaman * Ali Karadeniz *
Aysu Keskin Aysu Keskin (born May 15, 1990 in Istanbul, Turkey) is a Turkish female basketball player. The young national plays for Fenerbahçe S.K. as guard position. Keskin is 177 cm tall. See also * Turkish women in sports Turkish women have ...
* Deniz Kılıçlı *
Şebnem Kimyacıoğlu Şebnem Nehazat Kimyacıoğlu (born June 14, 1983) is a Turkish-American player in the Turkish Women's Basketball Team. She is an alumnus from Pinewood High School in California and graduated from Stanford before returning to Turkey. Şebnem's si ...
* Yasemin Kimyacıoğlu *
İnanç Koç İnanç Koç (born February 9, 1979) is a Turkish professional basketball coach and former player. He played the small forward position. He was most recently the assistant coach for the Yukatel Merkezefendi of the Turkish Basketball Super League ...
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Can Korkmaz Can Korkmaz (born October 21, 1992) is a Turkish professional basketball player for Darüşşafaka of the Basketbol Süper Ligi (BSL). He is a 1.88 m (6'2") tall 83 kg (183 lb.) point guard. Professional career Korkmaz made his prof ...
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Göksenin Köksal Hüseyin Göksenin Köksal (born 8 January 1991) is a Turkish professional basketball player and the team captain for Galatasaray Nef of the Turkish Basketbol Süper Ligi (BSL). He is a 1.97 m (6'5¾") tall swingman. Professional career Galat ...
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Ermal Kurtoğlu Ermal Kuqo ( tr, Ermal Kurtoğlu; born February 12, 1980) is a retired Albanian-Turkish professional basketball player who played the majority of his career for Efes Pilsen. He is also a basketball executive for the Los Angeles Clippers of the N ...
* İbrahim Kutluay *
Tuğçe Murat Tuğçe Murat (born July 9, 1991) is a Turkish basketball player for Çankaya Üniversitesi of the Turkish Super League. Tuğçe Murat was born in 1991 in Istanbul. With the height of 193 cm, Tuğçe plays at the centre position and perf ...
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Can Maxim Mutaf Can Maxim Mutaf (born January 9, 1991) is a Turkish professional basketball player for ONVO Büyükçekmece of the Basketbol Süper Ligi (BSL). Professional career Mutaf began his career with Fenerbahçe Istanbul in the 2006–07 season. It was ...
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Cemal Nalga Cemal Nalga (born 16 September 1987) is a Turkish professional basketball player for Balıkesir Büyükşehir Belediyespor of the Turkish Basketball First League(TBL). He plays the center position. Jersey scandal Nalga is also known for a ma ...
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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 (basketball), power forward and Center (basketball), center. Okur is known for his three-point shooting and abili ...
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Ömer Onan Ömer Onan (born February 4, 1978) is a Turkish former professional basketball player. Standing 1.94 m (6 ft 4 ½ in) and weighing 95.4 kg (210 lbs.), he played at the shooting guard position. Playing career Pro clubs During ...
* Adem Ören *
Aydın Örs Aydın Örs (born 23 July 1946 in Ankara) is a Turkish former basketball coach and former head coach of Fenerbahçe. He started to play basketball in 1963. He played for DSİ Spor and Sekerspor also played for 35 times with the Turkish national b ...
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Kartal Özmızrak Kartal Özmızrak (born 29 August 1995) is a Turkish professional basketball player for Bahçeşehir Koleji of the Basketbol Süper Ligi (BSL) and Basketball Champions League. Professional career Kartal was a product of Beşiktaş youth system a ...
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Cedi Osman Cedi Osman (born 8 April 1995) is a Turkish professional basketball player for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He plays the small forward position. Early years Osman was born in Ohrid, Macedonia, modern-da ...
* Tamer Oyguç *
Cevher Özer Cevher Özer (born 24 January 1983) is a Turkish professional basketball player for Konyaspor of the Turkish Basketbol Süper Ligi (BSL). He occupies the power forward The power forward (PF), also known as the four, is one of the five traditi ...
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Aytaç Özkul Aytaç Özkul (born 9 September 1989 in Turkey) is a Turkish professional basketball player of Fenerbahçe who is loaned to Fenerbahçe's second team Alpella. The center is 2.10 m tall. Career * Fenerbahçe * Alpella International career Ayta ...
* Arzu Özyiğit *
Bora Hun Paçun Bora may refer to: Geography * Bora (Australian), the site of an initiation ceremony in Australian aboriginal culture, sometimes known as Bora rings * Bora, Punjab, a village in India * Borá, a city in the São Paulo state in Brazil * Bora (wi ...
* Kaya Peker *
Nalan Ramazanoğlu Nalan Ramazanoğlu (born 23 January 1980 in Istanbul, Turkey), also known as Nalan Mete Ramazanoğlu, is a Turkish professional basketball player and captain of Fenerbahçe İstanbul and currently player of national team. She is 1.87 m tall and w ...
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Cenk Renda Cenk Renda (born 10 October 1969, in Turkey) is a former Turkish professional basketball player. He played for Turkey national basketball team. The former power forward is 2.05 m tall. Currently, he is team manager of Fenerbahçe. Career * E ...
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Ceren Sarper Ceren Sarper (born March 16, 1990, in Istanbul, Turkey) is a Turkish female basketball player. The young national plays for Fenerbahçe as forward position. She is 180 cm tall and weighs 72 kg. She has played for Fenerbahçe since 2000 ...
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Alper Saruhan Alper Saruhan (born September 4, 1982 in İstanbul, Turkey) is a Turkish professional basketball player who played for Pınar Karşıyaka, Trabzonspor Basketball, Oyak Renault, Manisa BB, Sakarya BŞB Basketball, Muratbey Uşak, Türk Telekom. He ...
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Oğuz Savaş Oğuz Savaş (born 13 July 1987) is a Turkish professional basketball player for Bahçeşehir Koleji of the Basketbol Süper Ligi (BSL) and Basketball Champions League. Standing at , he plays the center position. He has also represented the s ...
* Kenan Sipahi * Fatih Solak *
Ümit Sonkol Ümit Sonkol (born July 24, 1982) is a Turkish professional basketball player for Balıkesir BŞB of the TBL. He plays the power forward position. Personal life He has mechanical engineering Mechanical engineering is the study of physical ...
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Sertaç Şanlı Sertaç Şanlı (born 5 August 1991) is a Turkish professional basketball player for FC Barcelona of the Spanish Liga ACB and the EuroLeague. He plays at the center position. Professional career He made his professional debut in the TB2L with ...
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Caner Topaloğlu Caner Topaloğlu (born April 17, 1985) is a Turkish former professional basketball player. Career On July 25, 2013, Topaloğlu signed a contract with the Turkish team Beşiktaş. After one season, he parted ways with Beşiktaş. For the 2014– ...
* Levent Topsakal *
Kerem Tunçeri Mehmet Kerem Tunçeri (born 14 April 1979) is a Turkish former professional basketball player who played at the point guard and shooting guard positions.He is 194 cm (6 ft 4 in) in height and 86 kg (190 lbs.) in weight. Na ...
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Esmeral Tunçluer Esmeral Özçelik Tunçluer (born 7 April 1980)
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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 All ...
* Hidayet Türkoğlu *
İzzet Türkyılmaz İzzet Türkyılmaz (born 20 May 1990) is a Turkish professional basketball player for Balıkesir Büyükşehir Belediyespor of the Turkish Basketball First League. Standing at 2.13 m (7 ft 0 in), he can play as a power forward or center. ...
* 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 boxing, professional boxer(Azerbaijanis, Azerbaijani origin). As a professional boxer, Sam won the European Boxing Union, EBU,WBC international and WBC Med ...
*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 worke ...
*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 Ömer Çatkıç (born 15 October 1974 in Eskişehir) is a Turkish former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. His last club was Antalyaspor in the Turkish Süper Lig. He played for Eskişehirspor, Gaziantepspor, Gençlerbirliği ...
*Yasin Çelik *Oğuz Çetin *Recep Çetin *
Servet Çetin Servet Çetin (born 17 March 1981) is a Turkish 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 height and strength. ...
*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 Umut Güzelses ( he, אומיט גונזאלס; born May 15, 1987) is a Turkish-Israeli footballer. Childhood in Israel The Güzelses family are Sephardi Jews, descendants of refugees who fled the Spanish Inquisition. They emigrated to Israel ...
*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 interna ...


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 his ...
*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 Trabzonsp ...
*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 clim ...
*Eylem Elif Maviş *Burçak Özoğlu Poçan *Serhan Poçan *
Uğur Uluocak Yaşar Uğur Uluocak (1962 – 2 July 2003) was a Turkish outdoorsman, mountaineer, photographer, and editor. Born in 1962 in Ankara, Turkey, Uğur attended Saint Joseph High School in Istanbul, and graduated in Mechanical Engineering from ...


Olympic competitors for Turkey

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Eşref Apak Eşref Apak (born 3 January 1982 in Kalecik, Ankara) is a Turkish hammer thrower. Apak was a member of Fenerbahçe Athletics in Istanbul then transferred to Enkaspor, where he was coached by Artun Talay. The tall athlete at was a student of ...
*Sedat Artuç *
Süreyya Ayhan Süreyya Ayhan Kop (born September 6, 1978) is a Turkish former female middle distance track runner who specialised in the 1500 metres. In November 2009, she was banned for life by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) due to her second ant ...
*Ahmet Ayık *Kelime Aydın *Selçuk Aydın *
Kazım Ayvaz Kazım Ayvaz (March 10, 1938 – January 18, 2020) was a Turkish Olympic medalist sports wrestler in the Lightweight class and a trainer. He won the gold medal in Men's Greco-Roman wrestling at the 1964 Olympics and became World champion twic ...
*Mithat Bayrak *Derya Büyükuncu *Mustafa Dağıstanlı *Bektaş Demirel *Mete Gazoz * Rıza Maksut İşman * Ebru Kavaklıoğlu *Muhammet Kızılarslan *Halil Mutlu *Sebahattin Oglago *
Ruhi Sarıalp Ruhi Sarıalp (December 15, 1924 – March 3, 2001) was a Turkish track and field athlete, who competed mainly in the triple jump. He was born in Manisa. Background He competed for Turkey in the 1948 Summer Olympics held in London, Great Brita ...
*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 İsmet Atlı (1931 – 4 April 2014) was a Turkish Olympic medalist sports wrestler in the Light heavyweight class and a trainer. He won the gold medal in Men's Freestyle wrestling at the 1960 Olympics. He was born 1931 in � ...
*Ahmet Ayık *
Kazım Ayvaz Kazım Ayvaz (March 10, 1938 – January 18, 2020) was a Turkish Olympic medalist sports wrestler in the Lightweight class and a trainer. He won the gold medal in Men's Greco-Roman wrestling at the 1964 Olympics and became World champion twic ...
*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 *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 Circassian mother, Faika Özer writes poetry and novels, with a release of more than ten books. ...
*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 Ömer Zülfü Livaneli (born 20 June 1946), is a Turkish musician, author, poet, and politician. Livaneli was imprisoned several times during the 1971 Turkish coup d'état because of his political views and had to leave Turkey in 1972 and wen ...
*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


Television presenters

*Ali İhsan Varol * Deniz Orhun *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 Mehmet Nejat Ferit Eczacıbaşı (; January 5, 1913–October 6, 1993) was a chemist, industrialist, entrepreneur and philanthropist, and a second-generation member of the notable Turkish Eczacıbaşı family. He was the founder of Eczacıba ...
, 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 clim ...
, first Turkish summiter of Mt. Everest * Janet Akyüz Mattei, astronomer * Tatikios (c. 1048 - died after 1110), Byzantine general * Neyzen Tevfik, neyzen


See also

*List of Turkish Armenians *List of Turkish scientists *
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-controll ...
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