Yunus Emre

Yunus Emre

male
Yunus Emre was a Turkish poet and Sufi mystic. He has exercised an immense influence on Turkish literature, from his own day until the present....
Fehmi Koru

Fehmi Koru

male
Fehmi Koru is a Turkish columnist and journalist. He studied journalism and theology, receiving his master degree from the Center for Middle...

Geoffrey Lewis

male, 89 years old
Geoffrey L. Lewis is a distinguished scholar of the Turkish language and the author of several well known books about Turkish. Many people have...

Ziya Gökalp

male, deceased (1924)
Ziya Gökalp was a prominent Turkish ideologue of Pan-Turkism or Turanism. Gökalp was publicist and pioneer sociologist. He was influenced by mo...
Rafet el Roman

Rafet el Roman

male, 41 years old
Rafet El Roman (born August 25, 1968 in Edirne, Turkey), is a pop star in his home country. He got his name from a fictional character named "El...
Ali Pasha

Ali Pasha

male, deceased (1822)
Ali Pasha of Tepelen or of Yannina, the "Lion of Yannina",, and Turkish: "Tepedelenli Ali Paşa", and Aromanian: "Ali Pãshelu".
Mustafa Sandal

Mustafa Sandal

male, 39 years old
Mustafa Sandal, commonly known as Musti, is a famous Turkish pop singer. He is fluent in English, Turkish, Italian and French. He emerged in the...
Alp Arslan

Alp Arslan

male, deceased (1072)
Alp Arslan (1029 - December 15, 1072) was the second sultan of the Seljuk dynasty and great-grandson of Seljuk, the eponym of the dynasty. He...
Mehmet Akif Ersoy

Mehmet Akif Ersoy

male, deceased (1936)
Mehmet Âkif Ersoy was a Turkish poet. He wrote the lyrics of the Turkish National Anthem, İstiklâl Marşı ("The March of Independence" in Engli...

Ömer Seyfettin

male, deceased (1920)
Ömer Seyfettin, also Omer Seyfeddin, (born 1884, Gönen-Kamacioglu Village, Balıkesir/Oya - died March 6, 1920, Istanbul) was a Turkish nat...