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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 ...
, or the Turks, (Turkish: Türkler), who are an ethnic group primarily living in the republic of Turkey and in the former lands of the
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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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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 ...
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 on ...
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Tahsin Özgüç
Tahsin Özgüç (1916–2005) was an eminent Turkish field archaeologist. The careers of Tahsin Özgüç and his wife, Nimet Özgüç, began after World War II and lasted for nearly 60 years. He was said to be the doyen of Anatolian archaeology. ...
Yunus Nadi Abalıoğlu
Yunus Nadi Abalıoğlu (1879, Fethiye – 28 June 1945) was a renowned Turkish journalist and the founder of the newspaper ''Cumhuriyet''. He was known to be a sympathizer of the Nazi regime before the war, as he published many antisemitic prop ...
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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 critici ...
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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 ...
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Süreyya Ağaoğlu Süreyya Ağaoğlu (1903, Shusha, Azerbaijan – 29 December 1989, Istanbul) was a Turkish- Azerbaijani writer, jurist, and the first female lawyer in Turkish history.Ghada Talhami. Historical Dictionary of Women in the Middle East and North Afr ...
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 influence ...
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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
Antalya Province ( tr, ) is located on the ...
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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-ficti ...
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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 a ...
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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 (no ...
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Fikri Alican
Fikri Alican (2 April 1929 – 19 August 2015) was a Turkish scientist and physician with various contributions to medical science, ranging from organ transplantation to physiology.
Early life and career
Alican was born in Adapazarı, a city in ...
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Ahmet Altan
Ahmet Hüsrev Altan (born 2 March 1950) is a Turkish journalist and author. A working journalist for more than twenty years, he has served in all stages of the profession, from being a night shift reporter to editor in chief in various newspaper ...
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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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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 th ...
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Melih Cevdet Anday
Melih Cevdet Anday (13 March 1915 – 28 November 2002) was a Turkish writer whose poetry stands outside the traditional literary movements. He also wrote in many other genres which, over six and a half decades, included eleven collections of p ...
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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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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 con ...
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Ayşe Arman
Ayşe Arman (born 9 December 1969) is a Turkish journalist and columnist of German descent. She is best known for her interviews. Arman is the author of two books, one of which is a compilation of best moments of her interviews made over the pa ...
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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 t ...
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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 Kül ...
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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 g ...
Oğuz Atay
Oğuz Atay (October 12, 1934 – December 13, 1977) was a pioneer of the modern novel in Turkey. His first novel, '' Tutunamayanlar'' (''The Disconnected''), appeared in 1971–72. Never reprinted in his lifetime and controversial among critics, ...
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İsmet Atlı
İsmet Atlı (1931 – 4 April 2014) was a Turkish people, 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 Turkey at the 1960 Sum ...
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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 w ...
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Mustafa Balel
Mustafa Balel (born 1 September 1945) is a Turkish short story writer and novelist.
Balel was born in Sivas. After he graduated from Ankara Gazi Institute of Education, Department of French philology (1968), he did his master's at the University ...
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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 econ ...
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 So ...
Ataol Behramoğlu
Ataol Behramoğlu (born April 13, 1942) is a prominent Turkish poet, author, and Russian-into-Turkish literary translator.
Life
Ataol Behramoğlu was born on April 13, 1942 in Istanbul. He wrote poems in honour of his father Hikmet Bahramoglu ...
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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 ...
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 popu ...
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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 Kema ...
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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 wes ...
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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 wor ...
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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 the ...
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 ...
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Ahmet Hakan Coşkun
Hakan Coşkun (born 11 August 1967) is a Turkish journalist and columnist, currently working at ''Hürriyet'', CNN Türk and Kanal D. He studied at Bursa Religious High School (Imam Hatip Lisesi) and then Bursa Divinity Faculty (Bursa Ilahiyat Fa ...
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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 co ...
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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 ...
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Ahmet Çakar
Ahmet Murat Çakar (born 3 August 1962) is a Turkish doctor, sportscaster, actor and a former football referee. According to IFFHS, he is one of the world's best referees of the quarter of a century. Described as "Turkey's most controversial ...
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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 daugh ...
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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 ...
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 ass ...
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Emin Çölaşan
Emin Çölaşan (born 14 March 1942) is a Turkish investigative journalist, whose daily column appeared in the mass-circulation newspaper, Istanbul-based ''Hürriyet'', for 22 years, from 1985 to 2007. Since 2007, he continues his column in ''S ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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, h ...
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Azra Erhat
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, 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 Sap ...
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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 ...
Mehmet Akif Ersoy
Mehmet Akif Ersoy (20 December 1873 – 27 December 1936) was a Turkish people, Turkish pan-Islamist poet, writer, academic, politician, and the author of the İstiklâl Marşı, Turkish National Anthem. Widely regarded as one of the premiere l ...
Sabahattin Eyüboğlu
Sabahattin Eyüboğlu (1908 – January 13, 1973) was a Turkish people, 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 fat ...
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. Th ...
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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 fa ...
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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 Do ...
Ahmet Haşim
Ahmet Haşim (also written as Ahmed Hâşim; 1884? – 4 June 1933) was an influential Turkish poet of the early 20th century.
Biography
Ahmed Hâşim was born in Baghdad
Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Ira ...
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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 pr ...
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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 poets ...
Sabit Ince
Sabit is an Arabic masculine given name, meaning "firmly in place”, “stable”, “unshakable”, "dhilaman", from Thabit (ثابت). Notable people with the name include:
* Zaid Bin Sabit (610-660), one of the closest companions of Muhammad
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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 centre ...
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 ke ...
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
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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 ...
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'
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Orhan Karaveli
Orhan Karaveli (25 February 1930 – 24 March 2023) was a Turkish journalist and writer.
Personal life
Orhan Karaveli's family was a member of the Karaevli Turkmen tribe. Their surname reflects their tribe name with a transposition of two lette ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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Onat Kutlar
Onat Kutlar (25 January 1936 – 11 January 1995) was a prominent Turkish writer and poet, founder of the Turkish Sinematek and cofounder of the Istanbul International Film Festival.
Biography
Onat Kutlar was born in Alanya, Turkey, on 25 J ...
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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 went ...
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Perihan Mağden
Perihan Mağden (born 24 August 1960) is a Turkish writer. She was a columnist for the newspaper ''Taraf''. She was tried and acquitted for calling for opening the possibility of conscientious objection to mandatory military service in Turkey.
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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 climb ...
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Uğur Mumcu
Uğur Mumcu (; 22 August 1942 – 24 January 1993) um:ag was a Turkish people, Turkish investigative journalist for the daily ''Cum ...
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Murathan Mungan
Murathan Mungan (born 21 April 1955 in Istanbul) is a Turkish author, short story writer, playwright, and poet.
Biography
Mungan's family originates from Mardin.
His father is an Arab and mother is a Bosniak. After receiving his BA from the ...
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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 ...
Behçet Necatigil
Behçet Necatigil (16 April 1916 – 13 December 1979) was a leading Turkish author, poet and translator.
Biography
Behçet was born in Istanbul, Ottoman Empire, in 1916. He graduated from the Teachers' High School ( tr, İstanbul Yüksek ...
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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 ...
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Sevin Okyay
Sevin Okyay (Istanbul, 1942) is a Turkish literary critic, journalist, author, regular columnist and a prolific translator. Sevin had been a radio host and a teacher as well.
Biography
She is a graduate of the Arnavutköy American Girl's (High ...
Irfan Orga
İrfan Orga (October 31, 1908 – November 29, 1970) was a Turkish fighter pilot, staff officer, and author, writing in English. He published books on many areas of Turkish life, cookery, and history, as well as a life of Atatürk, and a unive ...
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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, a ...
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 ...
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Ertuğrul Özkök
Ertuğrul Özkök (born 8 April 1947) is a Turkish journalist and a daily columnist. Between 1990 and 2010, he was the editor-in-chief for ''Hürriyet'', a daily newspaper published in Turkish in Turkey and some European countries. Özkök is k ...
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 lan ...
Peyami Safa
Peyami Safa (April 2, 1899 – June 15, 1961) was a Turkish journalist, columnist and novelist. He came to the fore in the Turkish literature of the Republican era with his psychological works such as ''Dokuzuncu Hariciye Koğuşu'' (Ninth Ext ...
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 R ...
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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 ...
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 Galatasaray ...
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 and ...
Abdülhak Hâmid Tarhan
Abdülhak Hâmid Tarhan (born Abdülhak Hâmid; January 2, 1852 – April 12, 1937)Some sources state Feb 2,1852 was an early 20th-century Turkish playwright and poet. He was one of the leading lights of the Turkish Romantic period. He is ...
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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 year ...
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Neyzen Tevfik
Tevfik Kolaylı (March 24, 1879 – January 28, 1953), better known by his pen name Neyzen Tevfik, was a Turkish poet, satirist, and ''neyzen'' (a " ney performer" in Turkish). He was born in Bodrum and died in Istanbul. His name is occasio ...
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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 ...
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Metin Toker
Metin Toker (1924 – 18 July 2002) was a Turkish journalist and writer.
Life
He was born in Istanbul. After finishing Galatasaray High School, he studied French philology at Istanbul University graduating in 1948. He then went to France to stud ...
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 ...
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Osman Nuri Topbaş
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Biography
He was born in 1942 in Erenköy, İstanbul
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Hasan Ali Toptaş
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Fatma Aliye Topuz
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Hıfzı Topuz
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Cavit Orhan Tütengil
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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:
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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 Sunday e ...
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Bilge Umar
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He did his studies in Istanbul University Law School, where he also worked, after graduation in 1958, as an assistant and received his docto ...
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Recep Uslu Recep Uslu is a Turkish writer and researcher
Research is " creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge". It involves the collection, organization and analysis of evidence to increase understanding of a topi ...
Bahriye Üçok
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Early life and education
Born in Trabzon, Bahriye ...
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Ümit Ünal
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Ahmet Vardar
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Biography
Vardar was born 1937 in Istanbul. He worked for many newspapers, the longest for the daily ''Sabah''. He served for many years as the ...
Mehmet Emin Yurdakul
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Early life a ...
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Can Yücel
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Biography
Can Yücel was the son of a former Minister of National Education, Hasan Âli Yücel, who left his mark on the history of e ...
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Feridun Zaimoğlu
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Ragıp Zarakolu
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Halide Nusret Zorlutuna
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Biography
Zorlutuna was born in Istanbul, Ottoman Empire as the daughter of Mehmet Selim Bey, a journalist and political prisoner. Brought up in exile with her f ...
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Sabiha Gökçen
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Vecihi Hürkuş
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Irfan Orga
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Murat Öztürk (aviator)
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Nezihe Viranyalı
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Biography
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Ahmet Ali Çelikten
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Neşe Erberk
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Biography
She was born on October 14, 1964, in Istanbul, Turkey. She completed her education at Robert College and ...
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She was born in İzmir. She graduated from ...
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Arzum Onan
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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 ...
Filiz Vural Filiz Vural (born 1953) is a former Turkish beauty contestant and Miss Europe 1971.
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Canaydın began to play professional basketball in 1958. In 1957, he be ...
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İlhan Cavcav
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Aydın Doğan
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Biography
Born in 1936 as a member of a well-known family in Kelkit. Doğan went to e ...
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Bülent Eczacıbaşı
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Nejat Eczacıbaşı
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Neşe Erberk
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Biography
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Ahmet Ertegun
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Vehbi Koç
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Temel Kotil
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Ekrem Akurgal
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Fikri Alican
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Ferhan Şensoy
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Sabri Kalic
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* Sabri Çakır (born 1955), Turkish poet
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Onat Kutlar
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Biography
Onat Kutlar was born in Alanya, Turkey, on 25 J ...
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Zülfü Livaneli
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Murat Bardakçı
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Bardakçı was born in 1955 in İstanbul. An econ ...
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Muazzez İlmiye Çığ
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Yunus Nadi Abalıoğlu
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Ahmet Ağaoğlu
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Sunay Akın
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Akın was born in Trabzon, Turkey. Akın is best known for his poetry; his primary influence ...
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Muammer Aksoy
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Biography
Aksoy was born 1917 in İbradı, Antalya Province
Antalya Province ( tr, ) is located on the ...
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Mustafa Akyol
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Çetin Altan
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Engin Ardıç
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Biography
Ardıç was born on 1 February 1952 in Trabzon, a coastal city on the ...
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Ayşe Arman
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Duygu Asena
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Biography
She was born in Istanbul as the daughter of Nihal and Muhtar Asena. His father was in the sesame business. His g ...
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İsmet Atlı
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Murat Bardakçı
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Biography
Bardakçı was born in 1955 in İstanbul. An econ ...
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Bekir Coşkun
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Üstün Bilgen-Reinart
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Ahmet Çakar
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Cengiz Çandar
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Emin Çölaşan
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Ahmet Hakan Coşkun
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Can Dündar
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Bülent Ecevit
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Burak Eldem
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Uğur Gürses
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Abdi İpekçi
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Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu
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Coşkun Kırca
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Altan Öymen
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Ertuğrul Özkök
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Hıfzı Topuz
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Cavit Orhan Tütengil
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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
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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 Sunday e ...
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Vardar was born 1937 in Istanbul. He worked for many newspapers, the longest for the daily ''Sabah''. He served for many years as the ...
Ragıp Zarakolu
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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 ...
Recep Uslu Recep Uslu is a Turkish writer and researcher
Research is " creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge". It involves the collection, organization and analysis of evidence to increase understanding of a topi ...
Music producers
* Haluk Kurosman
* Ozan Çolakoğlu
* Hasan Saltık
Notable families
*Eczacıbaşı family
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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, ...
*List of Turkish painters
*List of Turkish Painters and artists
Philanthropists
*Adile Sultan
*Nuri Demirağ
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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 Holding, Koç Group, one of Turkey’s largest groups of companies. During his lifetime he came to be one of Turkey's wea ...
*Sakıp Sabancı
*Şevket Sabancı
Philosophers
Photographers
*Ara Güler
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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 Kül ...
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 climb ...
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 went ...
Ottoman poets
Record producers
*Ozan Çolakoğlu
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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 ...
*Nesuhi Ertegun
*Haluk Kurosman
*Arif Mardin
*Hasan Saltık
Onat Kutlar
Onat Kutlar (25 January 1936 – 11 January 1995) was a prominent Turkish writer and poet, founder of the Turkish Sinematek and cofounder of the Istanbul International Film Festival.
Biography
Onat Kutlar was born in Alanya, Turkey, on 25 J ...
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)' ...
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 be ...
*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
*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
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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 t ...
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 t ...
*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
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 climb ...
İsmet Atlı
İsmet Atlı (1931 – 4 April 2014) was a Turkish people, 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 Turkey at the 1960 Sum ...
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 went ...
* Bajkam, military commander
* Sadun Boro, sailor and global circumnavigator
* Ahmet the Calligrapher, saint
* Hasan Çelebi, calligrapher
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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 Eczacı ...
, 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
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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 climb ...
, first Turkish summiter of Mt. Everest
* Janet Akyüz Mattei, astronomer
* Tatikios (c. 1048 - died after 1110), Byzantine general
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Neyzen Tevfik
Tevfik Kolaylı (March 24, 1879 – January 28, 1953), better known by his pen name Neyzen Tevfik, was a Turkish poet, satirist, and ''neyzen'' (a " ney performer" in Turkish). He was born in Bodrum and died in Istanbul. His name is occasio ...
, neyzen
See also
*List of Turkish Armenians
*List of Turkish scientists
*List of assassinated people from Turkey
*List of French Turks
*List of Governors of the Central Bank of Turkey
*List of spouses of the Presidents of Turkey
*List of Ministers of National Defence of Turkey
*List of Ministers of National Education of Turkey
*List of Turkish billionaires by net worth
*List of contemporary Turkish poets
*List of presidents of the Constitutional Court of Turkey
*List of people on the postage stamps of Turkey
*Turkish women in sports
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