PEOPLE FAMOUS TURKS FAMOUS TURKS Prepared by Nur

PEOPLE & FAMOUS TURKS

FAMOUS TURKS Prepared by Nur Aktas Ceren Çetiner H. Ilknur Halıcı Kıvılcım Serdaroglu

8 Sub-Headings That We’ll Talk About ØPolitics, ØMariner, ØMusic, ØPoetry, ØLiterature, ØArchitecture, ØMedicine, ØComics.

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881 -1938) www. ataturk. net www. turkishnews. com/ataturk www. columbia. edu/cu/tsa/ata. html www. mfa. gov. tr/grupe/ea/ea 001. htm

İsmet İnönü (1884 -1973) Kanuni Sultan Süleyman Fatih Sultan Mehmet (1432 -1481) Tansu Çiller-The first female Prime Minister Kemal Derviş İsmail Cem (1940 -. . . )

MARINER Piri Reis (. . . -1554) The famous Turkish sailor and the first Turkish marine cartographer. His World Map and Mariners’ Book are his world-wide known works.

MUSIC İdil Biret Güher-Süher Pekinel Suna Kan Tarkan Fazıl Say

POETRY Yunus Emre www. mfa. gov. tr/grupe/eg/eg 23/default. htm Mevlana (1204 -1273) He summarized his life with the words, “I was raw, cooked and then burned. ” www. mevlana. net www. armory. com/~thrace/sufi/ Nazım Hikmet (1902 -1963) www. nazimhikmetran. com www. cs. rpi. edu/~sibel/poetry/nazim_hikmet. html

NOVELISTS Orhan Pamuk Yaşar Kemal

ARCHITECTURE Mimar Sinan He is an architect who grew up in one of the most splendid periods of the Ottoman State, and who contributed to this era with his works.

MEDICINE • İbn-i Sina The great doctor, scholar and philosopher of the eastern world during the Middle Ages. • Mehmet Öz Cardio Surger

COMICS Nasreddin Hoca Great and famous folk philosopher whose memory has a legend. His anectodes which are verbally transmitted at everywhere Turkish is spoken is popular among all classes and levels of people.

SUMMARY FAMOUS TURKS ØPolitics, ØMariner, ØMusic, ØPoetry, ØLiterature, ØArchitecture, ØMedicine, ØComics

CONTACT INFO – Nur Aktaş – Ceren Çetiner – H. İlknur Halıcı – Kıvılcım Serdaroglu naktas@bilkent. edu. tr ceren@bilkent. edu. tr ilknurh@bilkent. edu. tr serdark@bilkent. edu. tr or Jerry Willis Iowa State Unıversity