Turkey
People of this nationality
Piyale Pasha
1515 – 1578
sailor
Ahmet Oğuz
b. 1993
association football player
Mustafa Gonden
b. 1975
association football player
Cemal Tollu
1899 – 1968
painter
Gökhan Budak
1968 – 2013
physicist
Candan Tamerler
researcher
Metin Aktaş
b. 1977
association football player
Bekir Büyükarkın
1921 – 1998
poet
Kuzgun Acar
1928 – 1976
sculptor
Ayça Ayşin Turan
b. 1992
actor
Metin Külünk
b. 1960
politician
Güngör Kaya
b. 1990
association football player
Özdemir Pasha
military personnel
Hasan Saka
1885 – 1960
politician
Mahir Tomruk
1885 – 1949
sculptor
Ümit Can Batman
b. 1987
association football player
Cem Yılmaz
b. 1982
rower
Pelin Aroğuz
b. 1997
volleyball player
Eliyahu de Vidas
1518 – 1592
rabbi
Takieddin el-Solh
1908 – 1988
journalist
Gelenbevi Ismail Efendi
1730 – 1790
mathematician
Oğuzhan Çapar
b. 1996
association football player
Şükrü Saracoğlu
1887 – 1953
diplomat
Çağla Demirsal
b. 1995
ice dancer
Aysel Özakın
b. 1942
writer
Vahram Alazan
1903 – 1966
writer
Kemal Kaya Efendi
1900 – 1934
soldier
Yasemin Güler
b. 1994
handball player
Tayfur Havutçu
b. 1970
association football player
Taha Baqir
1912 – 1984
anthropologist
Paul Mulla
1881 – 1959
Catholic priest
Theoklitos Polyeidis
1698 – 1759
Eastern Orthodox priest
Bengisu Avcı
b. 1996
coach
İlhan Erşahin
b. 1965
composer
İlham Tanui Özbilen
b. 1990
middle-distance runner
Doğan Avcıoğlu
1926 – 1983
journalist
Adnan Menderes
1899 – 1961
politician
Mizgin Ay
b. 2000
sprinter
Vahdettin Özkan
b. 1968
politician
Despo Botsi
Galila Tamarhan
physician
Mahmut L. Unlu
b. 1967
business executive
Tunç Başaran
1938 – 2019
film director
Nesrîn Abdullah
b. 1978
military personnel
Ömer Ege Ziyaettin
b. 2008
basketball player
Emre Çolak
b. 1991
association football player
Salih Yıldız
b. 2001
judoka
Yavuz Ali Paşa
1501 – 1604
politician
Mazlum Demir
b. 2003
athletics competitor
Serkan Özbalta
b. 1979
association football coach
Maximus IV of Constantinople
1500 – 1502
Christian minister
Selim Kalaycı
b. 2000
volleyball player
Kamil Ahmet Çörekçi
b. 1992
association football player
Naci Şensoy
b. 1958
association football player
Cyril Parlichev
1875 – 1944
linguist
Mehmet Kara
b. 1983
association football player
İlkem Özkaynak
b. 1982
association football player
Sophronius III of Constantinople
1798 – 1899
Eastern Orthodox priest
Hassan al-Jabarti
1698 – 1774
mathematician
Fikret Ören
b. 1969
cross-country skier
Engin Alkan
b. 1965
actor
Volkan Pala
b. 1997
association football player
Erden Kıral
1942 – 2022
film director
Vedat Erincin
b. 1957
actor
Husayn al-Khalidi
1894 – 1962
physician
Petro Trad
1876 – 1947
politician
Nebahat Albayrak
b. 1968
politician
Mustafa Üstündağ
b. 1977
actor
Yasin Aydın
b. 1995
volleyball player
Bosniak Osman Pasha
1620 – 1685
İrem Altuğ
b. 1980
film actor
Mehmed Pasha Kurd Bayram
politician
Gazi Hüsrev Paşa
1584 – 1632
politician
Atik Sinan
1450 – 1471
architect
Cevat Yurdakul
1942 – 1979
lawyer
İskender Pala
b. 1958
writer
Esma Sultan
1726 – 1788
aristocrat
Nazan Bekiroğlu
b. 1957
novelist
Tayfun Gönül
1958 – 2012
conscientious objector
Sinan the Great
1520 – 1596
military leader
Alpay Çelebi
b. 1999
association football player
Malik Dinar
Ebru Gündeş
b. 1974
singer
Eray Birniçan
b. 1988
association football player
Muhammad Ali Bey al-Abid
1867 – 1939
diplomat
Vasil Adzhalarski
1880 – 1909
revolutionary
Engin Öztürk
b. 1986
actor
Mahmud Arif
1909 – 2001
poet
Muhammet Beşir
b. 1997
association football player
Burutay Subaşı
b. 1990
volleyball player
Feza Gürsey
1921 – 1992
mathematician
Abdülkerim Bardakçı
b. 1994
association football player
Muhammad Abduh
1849 – 1905
jurist
Tufan Ersöz
b. 1980
basketball player
Lütfi Fikri Bey
1872 – 1934
politician
Sedat Artuç
b. 1976
weightlifter
Temel Çakıroğlu
b. 1959
judoka
Marko Tsepenkov
1829 – 1920
writer
Altay Cengizer
1954 – 2026
Cevat Gürkan
1907 – 1984
equestrian