notable Notability is the property of being worthy of notice, having fame, or being considered to be of a high degree of interest, significance, or distinction. It also refers to the capacity to be such. Persons who are notable due to public responsibi ...

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 ...

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List of Ottoman people List of Ottoman people is an incomplete list which refers to people who lived in the Ottoman Empire (1299–1922). Naturally, some people who lived in the Empire during its last years, also lived in the early years of the Republic of Turkey, or oth ...

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), ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 brou ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fikri Alican Fikri Alican (2 April 1929 – 19 August 2015) was a Turkish scientist and physician with various contributions to medical science, ranging from organ transplantation to physiology. Early life and career Alican was born in Adapazarı, a city in ...

Ahmet 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 past ...

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 the a ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 worked ...

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 ...

Sevtap Baycılı Sevtap Baycılı is a Dutch writer of Turkish extraction. Born in Istanbul in 1968, she studied philosophy in Turkey, earning the nickname "Miss Wittgenstein". She settled in the Netherlands in 1991. Her first novel, ''De Markov-keten'' ("The Ma ...

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, ...

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 li ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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� ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Sap ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 * ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 * Sabri Kalic (born 19 ...

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' Biograp ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ahmet Taner Kışlalı Ahmet Taner Kışlalı (10 July 1939 – 21 October 1999) was a Turkish intellectual, political scientist, lawyer, commentator/author for the ''Cumhuriyet'' newspaper, academics and politician. Biography He completed his primary and secondary e ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

Uğur Mumcu Uğur Mumcu (; 22 August 1942 – 24 January 1993)
um:ag was a Turkish people, Turkish investigative journalist for the daily ''Cum ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nejdet Sançar Ahmet Nejdet Sançar (May 1, 1910 – February 22, 1975) was a Turkish literature teacher, who became one of the prominent personalities of the Pan-Turkist ideology. He was the younger brother of another notable Turkish nationalist, Nihâl Atsı ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Pirinççi ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Osman Nuri Topbaş Osman Nuri Topbaş (born 1942) is a Turkish Sufi master and author who lives in Istanbul, Turkey. He is the spiritual leader of the Naqshbandi Sufi Order based in Kadıköy, İstanbul. Biography He was born in 1942 in Erenköy, İstanbul ...

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 ...

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 nove ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bilge Umar Bilge Umar (born 1936) is a Turkish writer, researcher and jurist born in Karşıyaka, İzmir, Turkey. He did his studies in Istanbul University Law School, where he also worked, after graduation in 1958, as an assistant and received his docto ...

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 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 ...

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)' ...

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 the ...

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 a ...

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 e ...

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 seco ...

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 ...

Halide Nusret Zorlutuna Halide Nusret Zorlutuna (1901 – 10 June 1984) was a Turkish poet and novelist. 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Vecihi Hürkuş Vecihi Hürkuş (6 January 1896 – 16 July 1969) was a Turkish fighter pilot, aviation engineer and aviation pioneer. He built Turkey's first aircraft, the Vecihi K-VI, and founded the first civil flight school of the nation. Born in Istan ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nezihe Viranyalı Nezihe Viranyalı (1925 – 22 December 2004) was one of the first Turkish female aviators. She was trained by Sabiha Gökçen, Turkey's first female pilot. Biography Born in Vidin, Bulgaria of Turkish descent, she immigrated to Turkey as she w ...

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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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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 people, 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. S ...

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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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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 ...

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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 educatio ...

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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 be ...

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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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Bülent Eczacıbaşı Bülent Eczacıbaşı (, born 1949) is a Turkish businessman. Currently, he serves as chairman of the board at Eczacıbaşı Holding, a prominent Turkish conglomerate. Background Bülent Eczacıbaşı was born in İstanbul in 1949 to Nejat Ec ...

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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 ...

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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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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 ...

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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 Engin ...

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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 c ...

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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 hi ...

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Hüsnü Özyeğin Hüsnü Özyeğin (born 1944) is a Turkish billionaire. He founded Finansbank in 1987 and later sold the Turkish division of the bank. Nowadays, his financial investments are managed under Fiba Holding while non-financial investments are managed ...

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Ali Sabancı Ali İsmail Sabancı (May 5, 1969; Adana) is a Turkish businessperson and a third generation member of thSabancıFamily. He is the Chairperson of 'Esas Holding Education life Ali Sabancı earned his M.B.A. degree with a major in International ...

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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 of ...

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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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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 share ...

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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' ...

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Sevil Sabancı Sevil Sabancı (born January 4, 1973) is a Turkish businesswoman and a member of the Sabancı family in third generation. Biography She was born on January 4, 1973, in Istanbul, Turkey as the third child of Sakıp Sabancı, the founder of Saban ...

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Şevket Sabancı Şevket Sabancı (1936 – 22 July 2021) was a Turkish billionaire businessman and philanthropist, and a second-generation member of the Sabancı family. Biography He was born 1936 in Kayseri, Turkey, as the fourth son of Hacı Ömer Sabancı ...

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Demir Sabancı Demir Sabanci is a Turkish entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and philanthropist. He is the chairman of Sedes Holding and its subsidiaries. His businesses range from the largest personal care market chain in Turkey, to real estate management and dev ...

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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 in ...

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Kenan Sahin Kenan Eyüp Şahin, (commonly known as Kenan Sahin) is a Turkish-born American scientist and entrepreneur. He is the founder, President and the Chief Technology Officer of TIAX LLC in Lexington, Massachusetts. He is also the founder and CEO of C ...

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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 Ge ...

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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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Alp Yalman Alp Yalman (born 1 January 1940) is a Turkish businessman and former chairman of the Turkish sports club Galatasaray. Yalman was born in Istanbul. After graduating from Robert College in Turkey, he studied Social and Political Science in the Univ ...

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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 Cu ...

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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, , ...

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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 Asena ...

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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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Ahmet Kireççi Ahmet Kireççi (aka Ahmet Mersinli, 27 October 1914 in Mersin – 17 August 1978 in Mersin, Turkey), was a Turkish sports wrestler, who won the Olympic medal twice, the bronze medal in the Middleweight class of Men's Freestyle Wres ...

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Nevit Kodallı Nevit Kodallı (12 December 1924, Mersin – 1 September 2009, Mersin) was a Turkish composer of western-influenced classical music including operas and ballets. In 1948 he travelled to Paris where he studied with Arthur Honegger and Nadia Boulang ...

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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 Un ...

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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 Turkey, 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 screenp ...

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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 the m ...

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Sinan Erbil Sinan Erbil (born 11 January 1965) is an Iraqi Turkmen singer from Erbil. His latest album is the politally charged "Neden Ağlar Kerkük'üm?", featuring Nuray Hafiftas along with a host of world class musicians ıncludıng Erdinç Şenyaylar ...

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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 Legislat ...

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Didem Erol Didem Erol or Serah Henesey also known as Dana Flynn is an Australian-born Turkish American actress, model, and TV host. She was born in Sydney to Turkish parents and lives in Los Angeles, California. Amidst media speculation, Erol confirmed ...

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Ersan Gülüm Ersan Adem Gülüm (; born 17 May 1987) is a Turkish professional footballer who plays as a centre back for Preston Lions in the NPL Victoria 3. Born in Australia, Gülüm played for Australia at under-23 level before electing to represent Turk ...

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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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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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Sedat Sir Sedat Sir (born 6 March 1975) is a Turkish-Australian former Australian Rules footballer who played for the Western Bulldogs in the Australian Football League (AFL). Sedat, known as a solid defender, played 24 games at senior level between 199 ...

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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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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 c ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 also h ...

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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 af ...

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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 boxer( Azerbaijani origin). As a professional boxer, Sam won the EBU,WBC international and WBC Mediterranean titles in the heavyweight division. Accordi ...

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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 stud ...

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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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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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Metin Boşnak Metin Boşnak (born 1965) is Turkish professor of Bosniak origin. His academic publications include contributions to the fields of American culture and literature and comparative literature and cinematography. Metin Boşnak has a BA in TEFL fr ...

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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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Nedim Dal Nedim Dal (born Edin Delić; on 3 May 1975) is a retired Turkish basketball player. He stands 2.14 m tall and played as a center. He holds Turkish and Bosnian citizenships and played for Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Re ...

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Ebru Destan Ebru Destan (born 24 September 1977) is a Turkish singer, actress, and model. Biography Ebru is one of the most famous podium models in Turkey. She has also acted in many films like ''Abuzer Kadayıf'', ''Yeni Hayat'', ''Zor Hedef'', ''Can Ayş ...

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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 in ...

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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 st ...

* Almir Gegić * Coşkun Göğen * Sedat Kapanoğlu *

Hakan Köseoğlu Hakan Köseoğlu (born December 12, 1981 in İstanbul, Turkey) is a Turkish former professional basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, com ...

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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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Mehmet Okur Mehmet Murat Okur (born 26 May 1979) is a Turkish former professional basketball player. Listed at , he played as a power forward and center. Okur is known for his three-point shooting and ability to space the floor. In his seven seasons with ...

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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 ...

* Hidayet Türkoğlu *

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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Luis Cetin Luis Gustavo Cetin or simply Luis Cetin (born August 5, 1987 in Limeira), is a goalkeeper who is of Turkish descent. He currently plays for Boa Kwon Bo-ah (; born November 5, 1986), known professionally as BoA, is a South Korean singer, son ...

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 wes ...

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Orhan Demir Orhan Demir (; born 1954 in Istanbul, Turkey) is a Canadian jazz guitarist. His first release in 1986 "The way I see You" second release is in 1987 "North West", third album was in 1989 "Windmill" in 1990 solo acoustic album "Sultan of Strings", ...

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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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Tuğba Karademir Tuğba Karademir (born on 17 March 1985) is a Turkish former competitive figure skater. She won silver medals at the 2008 International Challenge Cup and 2008 Ondrej Nepela Memorial. She qualified to the free skate at two Winter Olympics ( 2006 ...

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Nil Köksal Nil Köksal is a Turkey, Turkish-born Canadians, Canadian television and radio journalist, most recently the weekday anchor of ''World Report (CBC), World Report'' on CBC Radio One. In July 2022, she was announced as the new host of ''As It Happens ...

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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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Semih Tezcan Semih Tezcan ('; born May 3, 1932) is a Turkish academic. He graduated from Istanbul Technical University Faculty of Civil engineering in 1954. In 1962, he went to Canada, and joined University of British Columbia as an assistant professor. Tezcan ...

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 b ...

Cyprus

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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' i ...

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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 sociology, sociologist. Baker was born to a cosmopolitan family; his mother was the Cypriot poet Pembe Marmara, and his father was the p ...

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Nil Burak Pembe Nihal Munsif (born 27 April 1948), better known as Nil Burak, is a Turkish Cypriot pop singer and actress who is famous in Turkey and Cyprus. Biography She was born in Lefka, Cyprus in 1948. She is best known for her hit song '' Sen de B ...

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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 a ...

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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 reco ...

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Murat Erdoğan Murat Erdoğan (born 1 August 1976 in London, England) was a Turkish footballer of English descent who now runs ME10 Football, a professional foorball management and consultancy firm based in Istanbul. Playing career Murat was a left-footed ...

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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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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 s ...

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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 c ...

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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 Fo ...

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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 Trabzon ...

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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 Nicosi ...

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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 athle ...

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Derviş Zaim Derviş Zaim (born Derviş Zaimağaoğlu in 1964) is a Turkish Cypriot filmmaker and novelist, who has twice won the Golden Orange for Best Director for '' Elephants and Grass'' (2000) and ''Dot (2008)''; Golden Oranges for Best Film and Best Sc ...

Denmark

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Yildiz Akdogan Yildiz Akdogan (born 29 April 1973) is a Turkish-Danish politician, who was a member of the Folketing for the Social Democrats (Denmark), Social Democrats from 2007 to 2011 and again from 2014 to 2019. Along with Özlem Cekic, she was one of the ...

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Hasan Al Hasan Al (born 18 June 1972 in Sivas, Sivas Province) is a Turkish-born boxer from Denmark, best known for winning the European welterweight title in 1996 as an amateur. Career In his adopted country he became European champion in 1996 against ...

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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 ''Geo ...

Germany

Hungary

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Erol Onaran Erol's can refer to any of three companies, all founded by Erol Onaran, a Turkish immigrant to Virginia. Erol's Inc. Erol's Inc. was a video rental and electronic sales and repair company founded in 1963, which included video rental in 1980. By 19 ...

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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 spe ...

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 Empire ...

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Sinan Erbil Sinan Erbil (born 11 January 1965) is an Iraqi Turkmen singer from Erbil. His latest album is the politally charged "Neden Ağlar Kerkük'üm?", featuring Nuray Hafiftas along with a host of world class musicians ıncludıng Erdinç Şenyaylar ...

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Mehmet Ali Erbil Mehmet Ali Erbil (born 8 February 1957) is a Turkish comedian, actor and talk show host of Kurds, 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 gran ...

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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 ) , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code ...

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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 sculpt ...

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Mehmet Türkmehmet Mehmet Türkmehmet (born 18 October 1980 in Kirkuk, Iraq) is an Iraqi Turkmen professional football midfielder. He currently plays for Karşıyaka S.K. in the TFF First League The TFF 1. Lig, officially known as Spor Toto 1. Lig for spon ...

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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 Israe ...

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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. I ...

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Leyla Gencer Ayşe Leyla Gencer (, née Çeyrekgil; 10 October 192810 May 2008) was a 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, and had a reperto ...

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Mehmet Günsür Mehmet Günsür (; born 8 May 1975) is a Turkish people, Turkish model, actor and producer. Early life Günsür was born in 1975 as the second child of a family of Tatar descent (a Turkic peoples, Turkic ethnic subgroup). His mother, Sibel, was ...

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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 indu ...

Jordan

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Muhanna Al-Dura Mohanna Durra ( ar, مهنا دره), , (1938 – 24 January 2021) was a Jordanian painter widely regarded as a pioneer of the Jordanian Arts Movement and for being the first to introduce Cubism and abstract art into the Jordanian visual arts com ...

Kazakhstan

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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 finished p ...

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Ali Haydar Şen Ali Haydar Şen (born 1939 in Prizren, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, now Kosovo) is an ex-president of Fenerbahçe SK. Early life Şen was born to an ethnic Turkish family in Kosovo. Career He worked as a journalist for a short time, before he firs ...

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Kuwait

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Dina Al-Sabah Dina Al-Sabah (born February 28, 1974) is a professional figure competitor from Kuwait. She is the only female Arab athlete to achieve pro card status as of 2006, as well as the first female Arab athlete to ever stand on the Olympia stage. Bio ...

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, 2016 ...

Lebanon

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Bilal Aziz __NOTOC__ Bilal may refer to: People * Bilal (name) (a list of people with the name) * Bilal ibn Rabah, a companion of Muhammad * Bilal (American singer) * Bilal (Lebanese singer) Places *Bilal Colony Bilal Colony ( ur, بلال کالونی ...

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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 Kema ...

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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 st ...

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Srgjan Kerim Srgjan Kerim ( mk, Срѓан Керим, ; tr, Sercan Kerim; born December 12, 1948) is a Macedonian diplomat, economist, former Foreign Minister and President of the 62nd Session of the United Nations General Assembly. His term of office began ...

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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 Borde ...

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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 Bitola, Monastir – February 11, 1971 in Ankara) was an Ottoman Army (1861–1922), Ottoman Army officer and later a Turkish Army general and politician. Biography He was born to his father Ali Bey and his mother ...

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: disparitio ...

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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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Maya Jupiter Melissha Martinez (born 21 December 1978), better known by her stage name Maya Jupiter, is a Mexican-born Australian rapper, songwriter, MC and radio personality. She released her debut album, ''Today'', in 2003. She was a member of hip-hop group ...

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 N ...

Norway

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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 in ...

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 b ...

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Sweden

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Sıraç Dilber Sıraç Dilber is a Turkish scientist. NK cells are needed to fight against bacteria and cancerous tumour A neoplasm () is a type of abnormal and excessive growth of tissue. The process that occurs to form or produce a neoplasm is called n ...

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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. Profe ...

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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 con ...

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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 ...

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Emin Nouri Emin Nouri ( bg, Емин Нури, tr, Emin Nuri; born 22 July 1985) is a former professional footballer. He was born in Bulgaria and represented Sweden as a youth. He then represented Azerbaijan at senior level. Career Nouri was born in Ka ...

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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 Borde ...

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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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Erkan Zengin Erkan Zengin (born 5 August 1985) is a Swedish professional footballer who plays as a winger. A full international between 2013 and 2016, he won 21 caps for the Sweden national team and represented his country at UEFA Euro 2016. Early life Ze ...

Switzerland

Syria

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Yusuf al-Azma Yusuf al-Azma ( ar, يوسف العظمة, ALA-LC: ''Yūsuf al-ʻAẓmah''; 1883 – 24 July 1920) was the Syrian minister of war in the governments of prime ministers Rida al-Rikabi and Hashim al-Atassi, and the Arab Army's chief of general staff ...

United Kingdom

United States

By type

Precedence

*Turkish order of precedence

Assassinated people

*List of assassinated people from Turkey

Chiefs of MIT

*National Intelligence Organization (Turkey), List of Chiefs of the MIT

Turks of net worth

*List of Turks by net worth

Governors of the Central Bank of Turkey

*List of Governors of the Central Bank of Turkey

Cartoonists

*Oğuz Aral *Mahmud A. Asrar *Yıldıray Çınar *Onur Demirsoy *Gürbüz Doğan Ekşioğlu *Ihap Hulusi Görey *Cem Kiziltug *Ulas Mangitli *Hasip Pektas *Suat Yalaz *Cem Yılmaz

Centenarians

* Albert Jean Amateau *Celal Bayar *Ahmet Kayhan Dede

Chefs

*CZN Burak *Emel Başdoğan *Hüseyin Özer *Deniz Orhun *Nusret Gökçe *Kadir Nurman

Civil servants

Composers

Diplomats

Doctors

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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 ...

* Reşit Süreyya Gürsey * Hulusi Behçet * Münci Kalayoğlu * Zeynel A. Karcioglu * Behram Kurşunoğlu * Serdar Nasır * Sabuncuoğlu Şerafeddin * Mehmet Oz * Hasan Özbekhan * Ömer Özkan * Selahattin Özmen * Mustafa Ülgen * Emin Cumhur Şener

Educators

*Hasan Âli Yücel *Haşim İşcan *Hasip Pektas

Entrepreneurs

Entertainers

Comedians

*Kemal Sunal *Ercan Yazgan *Beyazıt Öztürk *Cem Yılmaz *Ata Demirer

Theatre directors

*Muhsin Ertuğrul *

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 ...

Environmentalists

* Kemal Şahin

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 a ...

* Rifat Ozbek, Rifat Özbek * Erdem Moralioğlu

Filmmakers

Film directors

Film producers

*Ömer Lütfi Akad *Tunç Başaran *Sinan Çetin *Zeki Demirkubuz *Türker İnanoğlu *

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 19 ...

*Semih Kaplanoğlu *

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 ...

*Tolga Örnek *Ali Özgentürk *Halit Refiğ *Mehmet Tanrısever *

Atıf Yılmaz Atıf Yılmaz Batıbeki (9 December 1925 – 5 May 2006) was a renowned Turkey, 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 screenp ...

Film score composers

*Mazhar Alanson *Fuat Güner *Emir Işılay *Gökhan Kırdar *Erkan Oğur *Ozan Çolakoğlu *Özkan Uğur *

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 ...

*Melih Kibar

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. I ...

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Hüsnü Özyeğin Hüsnü Özyeğin (born 1944) is a Turkish billionaire. He founded Finansbank in 1987 and later sold the Turkish division of the bank. Nowadays, his financial investments are managed under Fiba Holding while non-financial investments are managed ...

*Erol Sabancı *Süreyya Serdengeçti *Naim Talu *Berç Türker Keresteciyan *Durmuş Yılmaz

Government and politics

*List of Turkish politicians *List of presidents of Turkey *List of prime ministers of Turkey *List of Turkish diplomats *List of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Turkey *List of speakers of the Parliament of Turkey *List of presidents of the Constitutional Court of Turkey

Historians

*Abdülhak Adnan Adıvar * Zeynep Ahunbay *Sadri Maksudi Arsal *

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 ...

*Halil Berktay *

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 ...

- Sumerologist * Selim Deringil *Şemsettin Günaltay *Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu *Halil İnalcık *Afet İnan *Kemal Karpat *Reşat Ekrem Koçu *Mehmet Fuat Köprülü *Aydin Sayili *Leyla Neyzi *İlber Ortaylı *Şevket Pamuk *Hikmet Tanyu *Zeki Velidi Togan *Taner Akçam

Journalists

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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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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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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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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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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 past ...

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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 ...

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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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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 ...

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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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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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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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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 Celik *

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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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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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 ...

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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 ...

* Fahir Ersin *Burhan Felek *

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 ...

*Hasan Tahsin *Attilâ İlhan *Balçiçek İlter *

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 ...

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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' Biograp ...

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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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Ahmet Taner Kışlalı Ahmet Taner Kışlalı (10 July 1939 – 21 October 1999) was a Turkish intellectual, political scientist, lawyer, commentator/author for the ''Cumhuriyet'' newspaper, academics and politician. Biography He completed his primary and secondary e ...

*Halit Kıvanç *

Uğur Mumcu Uğur Mumcu (; 22 August 1942 – 24 January 1993)
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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

*Şerif Turgut *

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 Sunday e ...

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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 the ...

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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

*Lütfi Akadlı *Zeki Akar *Sünuhi Arsan *Murat Arslan *Osman Arslan *Ahmet Hamdi Boyacıoğlu *Mustafa Bumin *Sumru Çörtoğlu *Mahmut Cuhruk *Necdet Darıcıoğlu *Uğur İbrahimhakkıoğlu *Hakkı Ketenoğlu *Şevket Müftügil *Nuri Ok *Orhan Onar *Mustafa Yücel Özbilgin *Yekta Güngör Özden *Semih Özmert *İbrahim Senil *Ahmet Necdet Sezer *Osman Şirin *Muhittin Taylan *Tülay Tuğcu *Kani Vrana *Abdurrahman Yalçınkaya

Lawyers

* Hicri Fişek * Kemal Kerinçsiz * Mehmet Ali Şahin * Köksal Toptan * Hayati Yazıcı

Magicians

* Sermet Erkin * Ertuğrul Işınbark * İlkay Özdemir * Zati Sungur

Mathematicians

*Ali Akansu *Selman Akbulut *Cahit Arf *Attila Aşkar *Gelenbevi Ismail Efendi *Feza Gürsey *Halil Mete Soner *Ayşe Soysal *Tosun Terzioğlu *'Abd al-Hamīd ibn Turk *Cem Yıldırım *Yomtov Garti

Military

* Shlomo Gazit (1926–2020), Israeli head of Israeli Defense Forces, IDF Aman (IDF), military intelligence, President of Ben-Gurion University *List of Chiefs of the Turkish General Staff *List of Commanders of the Turkish Land Forces *List of Commanders of the Turkish Air Force *List of Commanders of the Turkish Naval Forces *List of General Commanders of the Gendarmerie of Turkey *List of Commandants of the Turkish Coast Guard *List of Commanders of the First Army of Turkey

Models

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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 ...

*Büşra Duran Gündüz *Deniz Akkaya *Vildan Atasever *Doğa Bekleriz *Gülşen Bubikoğlu *Itır Esen *Gül Gölge *Tuğçe Güder *Yıldız Kaplan *Aysun Kayacı *

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 ...

*Manolya Onur *Tuğba Özay *Gamze Özçelik *Jennifer Şebnem Schaefer *Hale Soygazi *Tuba Ünsal

Musicologists

* Filiz Ali * Emre Araci * Rauf Yekta Bey *

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 *

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, ...

*Köprülü family *Sabancı family

Opera singers

*Esin Afşar *Balık sisters *Semiha Berksoy *Bülent Bezdüz *Burak Bilgili *

Leyla Gencer Ayşe Leyla Gencer (, née Çeyrekgil; 10 October 192810 May 2008) was a 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, and had a reperto ...

Painters

*List of Turkish painters *List of Turkish Painters and artists

Philanthropists

*Adile Sultan *Nuri Demirağ *

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 ...

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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' ...

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Şevket Sabancı Şevket Sabancı (1936 – 22 July 2021) was a Turkish billionaire businessman and philanthropist, and a second-generation member of the Sabancı family. Biography He was born 1936 in Kayseri, Turkey, as the fourth son of Hacı Ömer Sabancı ...

Philosophers

Photographers

*Ara Güler *

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 ...

*Rahmizâde Bâhâeddin Bediz * Bikem Ekberzade *Burhan Doğançay *

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 climb ...

*Pascal Sebah *Uğur Uluocak

Physicists

*Bulent Atalay *Nihat Berker *Ordal Demokan *Tekin Dereli *Feza Gürsey *Erdal İnönü *Behram Kurşunoğlu *Gökhan Okan *Ekmel Ozbay *Turgay Uzer *Ismail Akbay *Atok Karaali-Karaali Rocks *Dilhan Eryurt

Pianists

*Fazıl Say *İdil Biret *Hüseyin Sermet *Pekinel sisters

Admirals

*Kemal Reis *Piri Reis *Seydi Ali Reis *Salih Reis *Kurtoğlu Muslihiddin Reis *Kurtoğlu Hızır Reis *Uluç Ali Reis *Tzachas

Poets

Contemporary poets

Folk poets

*Muhlis Akarsu *Nesimi Çimen *Neşet Ertaş * Aşık Veysel Şatıroğlu *Aşık Mahzuni Şerif *

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 *

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

Religious leaders

*Mustafa Çağrıcı *Yaşar Nuri Öztürk *Ali Bardakoğlu

Rabbis

*Aaron Alfandari *Abraham ben Raphael Caro *Yaakov Culi *Ishak Haleva *Joseph ibn Verga *Aaron Lapapa *Hayim Palaggi *Judah Rosanes

Scientists

Screenwriters

*Ömer Lütfi Akad *Murat Aras *Tunç Başaran *Bilge Ebiri *Türker İnanoğlu *Semih Kaplanoğlu *Levent Kazak *Tuncel Kurtiz *

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 ...

*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 ...

*Halit Refiğ *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 Turkey, 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 screenp ...

*Cem Yılmaz *Uğur Yücel

Singers/musicians

Sportspeople

Athletes

*Halil Akkaş *Eşref Apak *Süreyya Ayhan *Birsen Bekgöz *Ali Ferit Gören (1913-1987), Austrian-Turkish Olympic sprinter *Özge Gürler *Rıza Maksut İşman *Ebru Kavaklıoğlu *Ercüment Olgundeniz *Pınar Saka *Ruhi Sarıalp *Mehmet Terzi *Binnaz Uslu *

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 *Mumtaz Tahincioglu *Burcu Cetinkaya

Basketball coaches

*Barbaros Akkaş *Serdar Apaydın *Ergin Ataman *Okan Çevik *Hakan Demir (coach), Hakan Demir *Murat Didin *Orhun Ene *Harun Erdenay *Yalçın Granit *Zafer Kalaycıoğlu *Ahmet Kandemir *Erman Kunter *Oktay Mahmuti *Aydın Örs *Murat Özyer *Cenk Renda *Ufuk Sarıca *Ercüment Sunter *Levent Topsakal *Arda Vekiloğlu *Ceyhun Yıldızoğlu

Basketball players

A–I

*Mustafa Abi *Tutku Açık *Can Akın *Gülşah Akkaya *Cenk Akyol *Furkan Aldemir *Hüseyin Alp *Can Altıntığ *Serdar Apaydın *Ender Arslan *Ömer Aşık *Engin Atsür *Melike Bakırcıoğlu *Doğuş Balbay *

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 worked ...

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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 also h ...

*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 *Ömer Büyükaycan *Hüsnü Çakırgil *Arda Vekiloğlu *

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 ...

*Berkay Candan *Serhat Çetin *

Nedim Dal Nedim Dal (born Edin Delić; on 3 May 1975) is a retired Turkish basketball player. He stands 2.14 m tall and played as a center. He holds Turkish and Bosnian citizenships and played for Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Re ...

*Begüm Dalgalar *Hakan Demirel *İpek Derici *Kemal Dinçer *Şafak Edge *Selin Ekiz *Orhun Ene *Korel Engin *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 in ...

*Harun Erdenay *Serkan Erdoğan *Barış Ermiş *Erbil Eroğlu *Tufan Ersöz *Murat Evliyaoğlu *Duygu Fırat *Samet Geyik *Kerem Gönlüm *Zeki Gülay *Muratcan Güler *Sinan Güler *Barış Hersek *Yasemin Horasan *Ersan İlyasova *

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. Profe ...

*Tuğçe İnöntepe *Şaziye İvegin-Karslı

J–Z

*Zafer Kalaycıoğlu *Enes Kanter *İlkan Karaman *Michael Wright (basketball), Ali Karadeniz *Aysu Keskin *Deniz Kılıçlı *Şebnem Kimyacıoğlu *Yasemin Kimyacıoğlu *İnanç Koç *Can Korkmaz *Göksenin Köksal *Ermal Kurtoğlu *İbrahim Kutluay *Tuğçe Murat *Can Maxim Mutaf *Cemal Nalga *

Mehmet Okur Mehmet Murat Okur (born 26 May 1979) is a Turkish former professional basketball player. Listed at , he played as a power forward and center. Okur is known for his three-point shooting and ability to space the floor. In his seven seasons with ...

*Ömer Onan *Adem Ören *Aydın Örs *Kartal Özmızrak *Cedi Osman *Tamer Oyguç *Cevher Özer *Aytaç Özkul *Arzu Özyiğit *Bora Hun Paçun *Kaya Peker *Nalan Ramazanoğlu *Cenk Renda *Ceren Sarper *Alper Saruhan *Oğuz Savaş *Kenan Sipahi *Fatih Solak *Ümit Sonkol *Sertaç Şanlı *Caner Topaloğlu *Levent Topsakal *Kerem Tunçeri *Esmeral Tunçluer *

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 *Henry Turner (basketball), 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 boxer( Azerbaijani origin). As a professional boxer, Sam won the EBU,WBC international and WBC Mediterranean titles in the heavyweight division. Accordi ...

*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 the a ...

*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 the a ...

*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 worked ...

*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 Murat Erdoğan (born 1 August 1976 in London, England) was a Turkish footballer of English descent who now runs ME10 Football, a professional foorball management and consultancy firm based in Istanbul. Playing career Murat was a left-footed ...

*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 Israe ...

*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 * Muzzy İzzet

K–L

*Hasan Kabze *Tolunay Kafkas *İlyas Kahraman *Nihat Kahveci *Sinan Kaloğlu *Ömer Kaner *Jem Karacan * Azar Karadaş *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 Trabzon ...

*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

*

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 ...

*Eylem Elif Maviş *Burçak Özoğlu Poçan *Serhan Poçan *Uğur Uluocak

Olympic competitors for Turkey

*Eşref Apak *Sedat Artuç *Süreyya Ayhan *Ahmet Ayık *Kelime Aydın *Selçuk Aydın * Kazım Ayvaz *Mithat Bayrak *Derya Büyükuncu *Mustafa Dağıstanlı *Bektaş Demirel *Mete Gazoz *Rıza Maksut İşman *Ebru Kavaklıoğlu *Muhammet Kızılarslan *Halil Mutlu *Sebahattin Oglago *Ruhi Sarıalp *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 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 ...

*Ahmet Ayık * Kazım Ayvaz *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 Ahmet Kireççi (aka Ahmet Mersinli, 27 October 1914 in Mersin – 17 August 1978 in Mersin, Turkey), was a Turkish sports wrestler, who won the Olympic medal twice, the bronze medal in the Middleweight class of Men's Freestyle Wres ...

*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 *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 st ...

*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 went ...

*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 *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 ) , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code ...

*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 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 *

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 *

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

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