FAMOUS PEOPLE Mustafa Kemal Atatrk 1881 1938 He

FAMOUS PEOPLE Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881 -1938 He was born in 1881 (probably in the spring) in Salonica, then an Ottoman city, now in Greece. His father Ali Riza, a customs official turned lumber merchant, died when Mustafa was still a boy. His mother Zubeyde, a devout and strongwilled woman, raised him and his sister. First enrolled in a traditional religious school, he soon switched to a modern school. In 1893, he entered a military high school where his mathematics teacher gave him the second name Kemal (meaning perfection) in recognition of young Mustafa's superior achievement. He was thereafter known as Mustafa Kemal.

Ataturk’s life • In 1905, Mustafa Kemal graduated from the War Academy in Istanbul with the rank of Staff Captain. Posted in Damascus, he started with several colleagues, a clandestine society called "Homeland Freedom" to fight against the Sultan's despotism. In 1908 he helped the group of officers who toppled the Sultan. Mustafa Kemal's career flourished as he won his heroism in the far corners of the Ottoman Empire, including Albania and Tripoli. He also briefly served as a staff officer in Salonica and Istanbul and as a military attache in Sofia. • In 1915, when Dardanelles campaign was launched, Colonel Mustafa Kemal became a national hero by winning successive victories and finally repelling the invaders. Promoted to general in 1916, at age 35, he liberated two major provinces in eastern Turkey that year. In the next two years, he served as commander of several Ottoman armies in Palestine, Aleppo, and elsewhere, achieving another major victory by stopping the enemy advance at Aleppo.

Ataturk’s life • On May 19, 1919, Mustafa Kemal Pasha landed in the Black Sea port of Samsun to start the War of Independence. In defiance of the Sultan's government, he rallied a liberation army in Anatolia and convened the Congress of Erzurum and Sivas which established the basis for the new national effort under his leadership. On April 23, 1920, the Grand National Assembly was inaugurated. Mustafa Kemal Pasha was elected to its Presidency. Fighting on many fronts, he led his forces to victory against rebels and invading armies. Following the Turkish triumph at the two major battles at Inonu in Western Turkey, the Grand National Assembly conferred on Mustafa Kemal Pasha the title of Commander-in-Chief with the rank of Marshal. At the end of August 1922, the Turkish armies won their ultimate victory. Within a few weeks, the Turkish mainland was completely liberated, the armistice signed, and the rule of the Ottoman dynasty abolished.

Ataturk’s life In July 1923, the national government signed the Lausanne Treaty with Great Britain, France, Greece, Italy, and others. In mid-October, Ankara became the capital of the new Turkish State. On October 29, the Republic was proclaimed and Mustafa Kemal Pasha was unanimously elected President of the Republic.

Ataturk’s life • Atatürk married Latife Usakligil in early 1923. The marriage ended in divorce in 1925. The account of Atatürk's fifteen year Presidency is a saga of dramatic modernization. With indefatigable determination, he created a new political and legal system, abolished the Caliphate and made both government and education secular, gave equal rights to women, changed the alphabet and the attire, and advanced the arts and the sciences, agriculture and industry. • In 1934, when the surname law was adopted, the national parliament gave him the name "Atatürk" (Father of the Turks). • On November 10, 1938, following an illness of a few months, the national liberator and the Father of modern Turkey died. But his legacy to his people and to the world endures.

FAMOUS PEOPLE Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (born 26 February 1954) is the 12 th and current President of Turkey. He was the prime minister of Turkey from 2003 to 2014. He was chairman of the ruling Justice and Development Party from 2001 to 2014. Erdoğan was Mayor of Istanbul from 1994 to 1998. [1] Erdoğan was a semi-professional footballer from 1969 to 1982. [2][3] The stadium of the local football club of the district he grew up in, Kasımpaşa S. K. is named after him. Erdoğan married Emine Gülbaran (b. 1955, Siirt) on 4 July 1978. [4] The couple have two sons (Ahmet Burak, Necmeddin Bilal) and two daughters (Esra, Sümeyye). The 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt tried to overthrow President Erdogan.

Turkish Professor Aziz Sancar Wins Nobel Chemistry Prize Aziz Sancar, a Turkish professor at the University of North Carolina, wins Nobel Chemistry Prize along with Tomas Lindahl and Paul Modrich, with their work on how cells repair damaged DNA.

Turkish Professor Aziz Sancar Wins Nobel Chemistry Prize • Aziz Sancar, a Turkish biochemist and molecular biologist specializing in DNA repair, cell cycle checkpoints, and the circadian clock won the 2015 Nobel Chemistry Prize along with Sweden's Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich of the U. S. on Wednesday for work on how cells repair damaged DNA. Aziz Sancar became the second Turkish person to win a Nobel Prize after novelist Orhan Pamuk, who won the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature. • Sancar, 69, is a professor at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. "I'm sure there will be (celebrations in Turkey), " Sancar said in an interview published on the Nobel Foundation's website. "Yes, they've been asking over the years and I was tired of hearing 'when are you going to get the Nobel Prize? ' so I'm glad for my country as well. "

WRITER -Ferit Orhan Pamuk (1952 -) Ferit Orhan Pamuk (born June 7, 1952) a famous Nobel Prize-winning Turkish author. Pamuk is a post-modernist writer. He has won many writing awards around the world. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on October 12 2006, which made him the first Turkish person to win the Nobel Prize.

Ferit Orhan Pamuk (1952 -) In 2005, he faced criminal charges because of comments he made in an interview. In the interview, Pamuk said about Armenian Genocide, "Thirty thousand Kurds, and a million Armenians were killed in these lands and nobody dares to talk about it. " Pamuk faced a hate campaign and he had to flee the country. The charges were dropped in early 2006 under an influence of international movement of Amnesty International and European Parliament.

Mehmet Öz (1960 -) Mehmet Cengiz Oz best known as Dr. Oz, is an American cardiothoracic surgeon, author, and host and commentator for the syndicated daily television program focusing on medical issues/personal health, The Dr. Oz Show. Oz first appeared on the The Oprah Winfrey Show in 2004, and later on Larry King Live and other TV programs. In 2009, Winfrey's Harpo Productions and Sony Pictures launched The Dr. Oz Show.

Mehmet Öz (1960 -) • Oz was educated at Tower Hill School in Wilmington, Delaware. In 1982 he received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University In 1986 he obtained a joint MD and MBAUniversity of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and The Wharton School. He was awarded the Captain's Athletic Award for leadership in college and was Class President followed by President of the Student Body during medical school. Oz is Vice. Chair and Professor of Surgery at Columbia University.

Cardiovascular Institute and Complementary Medicine Program at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. His research interests include heart replacement surgery, minimally invasive cardiac surgery, and health care policy. He has authored over 400 original publications, book chapters, and medical books and has received several patents. He performed around 250 heart operations annually.

ARDA TURAN Personal information Full name Arda Turan Date of birth (1987 -01 -30) 30 January 1987 (age 26) Place of birth Fatih, İstanbul, Turkey Height 1. 76 m (5 ft 9 in) Playing position Winger Club information Current club Number Atlético Madrid 10

• Arda Turan (born 30 January 1987) is a Turkish footballer who currently plays as a left winger for Atlético Madrid in the Spanish La Liga and the Turkish national team. At the age of 22, prior to the 2009– 10 season, he was made the captain of Galatasaray. He is mostly known for his ball control, dribbling skills, and good work ethic in both attack and defense. Arda already has 50 senior national caps and 12 goals for Turkey and following a successful UEFA Euro 2008 campaign, he was ranked eighth in a selection of the 100 Best Young Football Players in the World piece published by Spanish magazine Don Balón in July 2008. In January 2011, Arda was voted as the third most popular European footballer of 2009, as well as the 14 th most popular footballer in the world, by the IFFH

Sertab Erener (1964 -) • Biography • A native of Istanbul, Sertab Erener began her musical career with the help of Turkish pop singer Sezen Aksu. She released her first album, Sakin Ol (Calm Down), in 1992, and followed it with four more Turkish-language albums over the next decade. Her album Lal was included by Sony Music in its "Soundtrack For A Century" collection. • She won the Eurovision Song Contest 2003, representing Turkey with the song Everyway That I Can, co-written by Demirkan. The song climbed the charts in countries all over Europe, including Sweden and Greece.

• In the wake of her Eurovision success, Erener released her first Englishlanguage album, No Boundaries, in 2004. Her renditions of "Here I Am" and Bob Dylan's "One More Cup of Coffee" were used in international movie soundtracks. • In 2005, Erener released a Turkish-language album named Aşk Ölmez (Love Is Immortal), promoted with songs such as "Aşk Ölmez, Biz Ölürüz" ("Love Is Immortal, We Aren't") and "Satılık Kalpler Şehri" ("City of Hearts For Sale"). She also appeared on the movie soundtrack album of Fatih Akın's Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul, with a rendition of Madonna's song "Music". • On March 15 2007 Sertab released a best of album. In addition to her Eurovision winner song, "The Best of Sertab Erener" features samples from the singer's extensive repertoire with songs in Spanish, Greek and English and duets with other singers. • Erener has sung duets with Ruslana, José Carreras, Ricky Martin and Greek singer Mando. She has also worked with musicians Desmond Child, Anggun, and Belgian band Voice Male.