Turkey
People of this nationality
Kösem Sultan
1589 – 1651
regent
Mehmed Said Efendi
1650 – 1761
politician
Tacettin Bayır
b. 1960
politician
Haldun Alağaş
b. 1970
karateka
Recep Uçar
b. 1975
association football player
Loukas Petridis
1850 – 1912
Christian minister
Ahmet Berat Çonkar
b. 1976
politician
Arzu Sema Canbul
b. 1973
association football player
Yunus Altun
b. 1977
association football player
Halil Menteşe
1874 – 1948
politician
Naşit Özcan
1886 – 1943
actor
Hasan Tahsin Gökcan
b. 1965
judge
Baran Aksaka
b. 2003
association football player
Şükrü Yürür
1944 – 2023
politician
Hüseyin Korkmaz
1987 – 2025
author
Yetkin Dikinciler
b. 1969
actor
Theodoros Kasapis
1835 – 1905
journalist
Şevket Turgut Paşa
1857 – 1924
military officer
Soner Karagöz
b. 1972
boxer
Demir Turgut
b. 1909
sailor
Gülhan Şen
b. 1978
television presenter
Mevlüt Han Ekelik
b. 2004
association football player
Serkay Tütüncü
b. 1991
actor
Emetullah Sultan
1701 – 1727
aristocrat
Fuzuli
1494 – 1556
poet
Enes Erkan
b. 1987
karateka
Pınar Karaca
academic
Hanne Safar
1859 – 1915
Ahmet Yorulmaz
1932 – 2014
journalist
Pınar Yolaçan
b. 1981
artist
İrfan Saraloğlu
b. 1962
association football player
Kerim Oder
1901 – 1981
politician
Evin Demir
b. 2001
athletics competitor
Mert Kurt
b. 2002
association football player
Démétrius Alexandre Zambaco
1832 – 1913
physician
Hussein Kamel of Egypt
1853 – 1917
politician
Cihad Erginay
b. 1966
diplomat
Bezmiara Kadin
1834 – 1909
aristocrat
Lale Karabıyık
1965 – 2025
academic
Civar Çetin
b. 1992
association football player
Salih Kuru
1906 – 2012
military personnel
Kadir Koçdemir
b. 1964
bureaucrat
Fatih Bozkurt
b. 2000
amateur wrestler
Mustafa Akçay
b. 1983
association football player
Semavi Eyice
1922 – 2018
anthropologist
Recep Uslu
b. 1958
musicologist
Yasemin Ustalar
b. 1975
boxer
Ece Vahapoğlu
b. 1978
journalist
Hussein al-Husayni
1850 – 1918
politician
Kaan Tangöze
b. 1973
singer
Hasan Atilla Uğur
b. 1957
warrior
Dimitrios Makris
1772 – 1841
politician
Ümit Kocasakal
b. 1966
academic
İbrahim Kaya
b. 2001
association football player
Lefkeli Mustafa Paşa
politician
Akile Hatun
1607 – 1630
Necmettin Sadak
1890 – 1953
politician
Can Ergenekan
b. 1972
swimmer
Tanju Okan
1938 – 1996
singer
Ümit Yesin
1954 – 2019
actor
Yahşi Baraz
b. 1944
art dealer
Osman Can Çötür
b. 2001
association football player
Abdullah Yılmaz
b. 1978
association football referee
Uğur Taner
b. 1974
swimmer
Benjamin Evsevides
1821 – 1895
Catholic priest
Ramazan Sal
b. 1985
association football player
Yasemen Saylar
b. 1990
basketball player
III. Eftim
1926 – 2002
businessperson
Kağan Bağış
b. 1998
association football player
Celâl Bayar
1883 – 1986
politician
Najib Effendi Al-Yasin
b. 1900
politician
Liolios Xirolivaditis
1780 – 1860
military personnel
Ersin Güreler
b. 1978
association football player
Abraham de Boton
1545 – 1588
rabbi
Sabahattin Hamamcıoğlu
b. 1966
athlete
Elif Doğan
b. 1994
stage actor
Najib Albina
1901 – 1983
photographer
Melih Sıratça
b. 1996
volleyball player
Yakup Yahya
b. 1475
Yekta Güngör Özden
b. 1932
judge
Gümülcineli İsmail Bey
1877 – 1942
politician
Feride Şevval Akalan
b. 2001
basketball player
Cibranlı Halid Bey
1882 – 1925
politician
Angelis Gatsos
1771 – 1839
military personnel
Selma Ergeç
b. 1978
actor
Mahinur Ergun
b. 1956
film director
Aslı Kalaç
b. 1995
volleyball player
Ali Özdemir
1920 – 2009
amateur wrestler
Bedia Özgökçe Ertan
b. 1975
human rights defender
Ayten Yeksan
b. 2002
judoka
Mustafa Pultar
b. 1940
civil engineer
Naci Bostancı
b. 1957
politician
Ahu Tuğba
1955 – 2024
actor
Akif Gürgen
b. 1977
volleyball player
Baha Cemal Zağra
1894 – 1976
politician
Aslı Sungu
b. 1975
artist
Ahmet Yıldız
b. 1979
physicist
Nursel Aydoğan
b. 1958
human rights defender
Vasa Pelagić
1838 – 1899
physician
Gençer Cansev
b. 1989
association football player