52 Notable alumni of
Bogazici University
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Bogazici University is 691st in the world, 141st in Asia, and 7th in Turkey by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 52 notable alumni from Bogazici University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Fahriye Evcen
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- film actortelevision actor
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Fahriye Evcen Özçivit is a German-born Turkish actress and model. She is known for her roles as Necla Tekin in the TV series Yaprak Dökümü and as Feride in the TV series Çalıkuşu, both on based on novels by Reşat Nuri Güntekin.
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Ahmet Davutoğlu
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- writerpolitical scientistpedagogueeconomistinternational forum participant
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Ahmet Davutoğlu is a Turkish academic, politician and former diplomat who served as the 26th Prime Minister of Turkey and Leader of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) from 2014 to 2016. He previously served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2009 to 2014 and chief advisor to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan from 2003 to 2009. He was elected as an AKP Member of Parliament for Konya in the 2011 general election and was reelected as an MP in both the June and November 2015 general elections. He resigned as Prime Minister on 22 May 2016.
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Tansu Çiller
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- economistpoliticianuniversity teacherdiplomat
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Tansu Çiller is a Turkish academic, economist, and politician who served as the 22nd Prime Minister of Turkey from 1993 to 1996. She was Turkey's first and only female prime minister. As the leader of the True Path Party, she went on to concurrently serve as Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey and as Minister of Foreign Affairs between 1996 and 1997.
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Cem Yılmaz
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- stand-up comedianvoice actorfilm directorcomedianhumorist
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Cem Yılmaz is a Turkish actor, stand-up comedian, musician, filmmaker, screenwriter, and cartoonist. He has four franchise film series G.O.R.A., Karakomik Fimler, Organize İşler, Vizontele. Also, He is best known for his films Yahşi Batı, Hokkabaz, İftarlık Gazoz, Av Mevsimi and has won three Sadri Alışık awards and Yeşilçam award for his roles. His international films are Russell Crowe's film "Water Diviner" and Ferzan Özpetek's film "Magnifica presenza".
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Murat Ülker
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- entrepreneurbusinesspersoninternational forum participant
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Murat Ülker is a Turkish billionaire businessman, and the chairman of Yıldız Holding, the largest food company in the CEEMEA region (Central & Eastern Europe, Middle East, and Africa). Yıldız owns businesses including Godiva Chocolatier, pladis, and Sok.
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Gülse Birsel
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- writerscreenwriteractorpresenterjournalist
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Gülse Birsel is a Turkish actress, screenwriter and columnist. She is known for hit sitcom series, Avrupa Yakası, Yalan Dünya and hit film 7 Kocalı Hürmüz.
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Teoman
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- film score composerfilm directorsingerfilm actoractor
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Fazlı Teoman Yakupoğlu is a Turkish acoustic rock singer and songwriter. His biggest hits include Paramparça, Senden Önce Senden Sonra, 17 and Papatya. On Papatya, Turkish female rock singer Özlem Tekin features as backing vocals. Şebnem Ferah has also featured on a couple of Teoman's tracks.
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Defne Samyeli
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- film actorcolumnistsingertelevision actorjournalist
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Defne Samyeli is a Turkish TV presenter, columnist, singer and actress.
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Nil Karaibrahimgil
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- songwritercomposerfilm actorsinger
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Ferhan Nil Karaibrahimgil is a Turkish singer and songwriter, mostly noted for her distinct lyrics. Nil's passion and admiration for music stems from her father, Suavi Karaibrahimgil, who is also a musician although he is not active in the Turkish music industry.
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Güler Sabancı
- Enrolled in Bogazici University
- Studied administration
- Occupations
- entrepreneureconomistbusinesspersonmanagerinternational forum participant
- Biography
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Güler Sabancı is a Turkish businesswoman, a third-generation female member of the Sabancı family, and the chairperson of the family-controlled Sabancı Holding, the second-largest industrial and financial conglomerate in Turkey. As of 2020, she is listed as the 76th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes, which first recognized her in 1999.
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Pelin Batu
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- actorwriter
- Biography
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Pelin Batu is a Turkish author, actress, historian, and television personality.
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Saadet Aksoy
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- film actoractor
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Saadet Işıl Aksoy is a Turkish actress, who received critical acclaim with her portrayal of Aska, a red-haired punk trumpet player in Italian actor-director Sergio Castellitto's film Twice Born, in which she co-starred with Penélope Cruz and Emile Hirsch. Christy Lemire described her as "the striking Saadet Aksoy" in her Twice Born review, and film critic David Rooney stated, "Saadet Aksoy brings a subdued fieriness to her scenes as a Bosnian woman" in The Hollywood Reporter. In his article on Variety, Boyd Van Hoeij wrote, "Turkish thesp Saadet Aksoy impresses in a supporting role as a spunky Yugoslav local" about her performance in Twice Born.
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Aslı Erdoğan
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- physicisthuman rights activistwritercolumnist
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Aslı Erdoğan is a prize-winning Turkish writer, author, human rights activist, and columnist for Özgür Gündem and formerly for Radikal, ex political prisoner, particle physicist. Her second novel has been published in English, and eight books translated into twenty languages.
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Zeynep Tüfekçi
- Enrolled in Bogazici University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Science in computer programming
- Occupations
- university teachersociologistwriterjournalistopinion journalist
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Zeynep Tufekci is a Turkish-American sociologist, and the Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University. She is also a columnist for The New York Times. Her work focuses on social media, media ethics, the social implications of new technologies, such as artificial intelligence and big data, as well as societal challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic using complex and systems-based thinking. According to The Chronicle of Higher Education, she is one of the most prominent academic voices on social media and the new public sphere. In 2022, Tufekci was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for her "insightful, often prescient, columns on the pandemic and American culture", which the committee said "brought clarity to the shifting official guidance and compelled us towards greater compassion and informed response."
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Harun Tekin
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- singer
- Biography
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Sami Harun Tekin is a Turkish singer, musician, and poet. He is one of the founding members and the vocalist of the Turkish rock band Mor ve Ötesi.
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Feridun Sinirlioğlu
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- diplomat
- Biography
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Feridun Hadi Sinirlioğlu is a Turkish diplomat and politician. He served as the Permanent Representative of Turkey to the United Nations from 2016 to 2023. He previously served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey from August 2015 to November 2015.
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Sedef Kabaş
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Sedef Kabaş Yirmibeşoğlu is a Turkish journalist and television presenter who has presented on various news channels in Turkey since 1997. In January 2022, she received international attention after she was arrested following a television interview in which she was alleged to have insulted Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
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Arzuhan Doğan Yalçındağ
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- entrepreneurbusinesspersoninternational forum participant
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Arzuhan Doğan Yalçındağ is a Turkish businesswoman and chairwoman of the Doğan Holding industrial conglomerate.
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Mustafa Akyol
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- journalistwriterpolitical analyst
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Mustafa Akyol is a Turkish writer and journalist. He is the author of Islam without Extremes: A Muslim Case for Liberty, long-listed in 2012 for the Lionel Gelber Prize, a literary award for the world's best non-fiction book in English. He became a contributing opinion writer for the International New York Times in 2013. He is mainly famous in the western world for his arguments that Islam is highly compatible with classical liberalism and Enlightenment values, and that Islamic practice and the governance of Muslim-majority countries should be reformed along those lines similar to what previously happened in Christian-majority Europe.
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Aylin Aslım
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- songwritersingerfilm actoractorrecording artist
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Aylin Aslım is a Turkish singer, songwriter and actress.
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Enis Berberoğlu
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- politicianjournalist
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Kadri Enis Berberoğlu is a Turkish politician and journalist from the Republican People's Party (CHP), who has served as the Member of Parliament for Istanbul's second electoral district since 2015. Since the 18th CHP Extraordinary Convention of 2014, he has been the Deputy Leader of the party responsible for media relations and communications.
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Ömür Gedik
- Years
- 1970-.. (age 54)
- Occupations
- writerjournalist
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Ömür Gedik is a Turkish journalist. She is a writer for Hürriyet newspaper, artist, animal rights advocate, a member of SİYAD (Association of Cinema Writers), and founder and president of HAÇİKO Association (The Association for the Protection of Animals from Desperation and Indifference).
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Reha Erdem
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- film editorfilm directorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Reha Erdem is a Turkish film director and screenwriter.
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Taylan Yıldız
- Enrolled in Bogazici University
- In 2001 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- politician
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Vedat Taylan Yıldız is a member of the Good Party group in the Municipal Council of Istanbul.
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Hilal Kaplan
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- journalist
- Biography
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Hilal Kaplan is a Turkish journalist and TRT board member and columnist for the Turkish newspaper Sabah.
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Hurşit Güneş
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- 1957-.. (age 67)
- Occupations
- economistpolitician
- Biography
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Hursit Gunes is a Turkish politician and professor of economics, who had served as deputy chairman of Republican People's Party (CHP); and he has been deputy of Kocaeli Province since 2011.
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Ravza Kavakcı Kan
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- politicianuniversity teacher
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Ravza Kavakçı Kan is a Turkish politician, elected as the President of the Turkish Inter-Parliamentary Union Group for the 27th legislative term of Grand National Assembly of Turkey and is a member of the Committee on Digital Platforms that is newly established.
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Mehmet Fatih Kacır
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- politician
- Biography
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Mehmet Fatih Kacır is a Turkish politician and entrepreneur.
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İbrahim Eren
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İbrahim Eren is a Turkish bureaucrat.
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Suat Atalık
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- chess player
- Biography
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Suat Atalık is a Turkish-Bosnian chess grandmaster. He is a three-time Turkish Chess Champion and the first Turkish chess-player ever to obtain title of chess Grandmaster.
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Genco Gulan
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- painterphotographerchoreographertelevision producersculptor
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Genco Gülan is a contemporary conceptual artist and theorist, who lives and works in Istanbul. His transmedia contextual work involves painting, found objects, new media, drawings, sculpture, photography, performance and video. His work often carries political, social and/or cultural messages; mainly describing his work as idea art.
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Ayşe Sinirlioğlu
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- diplomat
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Ayşe Sinirlioğlu is a Turkish diplomat, who has been her country's ambassador to Romania and then to Spain and Andorra. She became Turkey's first woman Deputy Undersecretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 2015 she was the Sherpa during Turkey's presidency and the Antalya summit of the G20 group of countries.
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Pelin Esmer
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- film directorscreenwriterfilm editorfilm producer
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Pelin Esmer is a Turkish screenwriter and director.
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Murat Gülsoy
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- writer
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Murat Gülsoy is a Turkish writer. He started his literary career as a publisher and a writer of the bimonthly magazine Hayalet Gemi (Ghost Ship) in 1992. Since then, he has published 18 books. Besides short stories, he has novels addressing modern masters Kafka, Borges, Eco, Laurence Sterne, Fowles and Orhan Pamuk. He is the recipient of various prestigious national literary awards, and has given interviews in national media. He has been conducting creative writing workshops since 2004.
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Celil Oker
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- writerjournalist
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Celil Oker was a Turkish crime fiction writer.
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Baybars Altuntaş
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- writerentrepreneur
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Baybars Altuntaş is a Turkish entrepreneur, angel investor, speaker and author based in Istanbul. He founded Deulcom International, a vocational training school in Turkey in 1992 and currently serves as the president of the executive committee of the company. He is currently a jury member on the new Turkish entrepreneurship program and is the current host of the Turkish version of The Weakest Link, En Zayıf Halka
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Taner Edis
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- 1967-.. (age 57)
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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Taner Edis is a Turkish American physicist and skeptic. He is a professor of physics at Truman State University. He received his B.S. from Boğaziçi University in Turkey and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. Edis is the author of several books on creationism, religion and science. He is a scientific and technical consultant for the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry.
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Burak Akcapar
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- diplomat
- Biography
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Burak Akçapar is a Turkish diplomat currently serving as the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. He served as Turkey's ambassador to Spain and India and non-resident ambassador to Sri Lanka (2011-12), Maldives and Nepal. He is an associate professor of international relations, and has published three books.
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Hişyar Özsoy
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- politicianacademic
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Hişyar Özsoy, is a Turkish politician and academic of Kurdish descent. He is a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP)
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Sedat Bornovalı
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- linguistart historian
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Sedat Bornovalı is an art historian (PhD), interpreter and professional tourist guide in Italian, English and Turkish.
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Uğur Ersoy
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- engineer
- Biography
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Uğur Ersoy is a Turkish civil engineer and academic.
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Tuna Altinel
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- mathematician
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Tuna Altınel is a Turkish mathematician, born February 12, 1966, in Istanbul, who has worked at the University Lyon 1 in France since 1996. He is a specialist in group theory and mathematical logic. With Alexandre Borovik and Gregory Cherlin, he proved a major case of the Cherlin–Zilber conjecture.
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Mehmet Ali İrtemçelik
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- politiciandiplomat
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Mehmet Ali İrtemçelik is the previous ambassador of the Republic of Turkey to Germany. He has also served as member of parliament in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey and as a minister of state in the Council of Ministers of Turkey. He graduated from Galatasaray High School and Boğaziçi University, both in Istanbul, Turkey.
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Niko Guido
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- photographer
- Biography
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Niko Guido is a Turkish-French photographer.
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Zeynep Ergun
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- professorlinguist
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Zeynep Ergun was a professor at Institute of Social Sciences English Language and Literature Department of Istanbul University.
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Halil Mete Soner
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- mathematician
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Halil Mete Soner is a Turkish American mathematician born in Ankara. Soner's current research interests are nonlinear partial differential equations; asymptotic analysis of Ginzburg-Landau type systems, viscosity solutions, and mathematical finance.
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Özdil Nami
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- politician
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Özdil Nami is a British-born Turkish Cypriot politician. He has served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Northern Cyprus and the Turkish Cypriot Special Representative in the negotiations to solve the Cyprus dispute. He currently serves as the Minister of Economy and Energy of Northern Cyprus.
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Halil Güven
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- engineer
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Halil Guven is a Cypriot-born professor, currently serving as the Dean of San Diego State University - Georgia. He was a Vice Dean of SDSU Georgia for four years before then and was one of the coordinators of the project at the time of its conception. Dr. Güven served as a Rector at three different universities in Turkey and in Cyprus. He served as the rector of Istanbul Bilgi University appointed in the academic year of 2009–2010, Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU), North Cyprus in 2004–2007, and Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul, Turkey in 1999–2003. He received his B.S. degree from Boğaziçi University (Istanbul, 1978), his M.S. degree from Mississippi State University on Fulbright Scholarship (1981), and his Ph.D. degree from University of Houston, in Mechanical Engineering(1983). Alongside his 20+ articles in energy systems in peer-reviewed journals, Güven has edited books and published book chapters on Globalization, Leadership, Clash of civilizations and Education. He speaks Turkish, English, and moderate Spanish and Greek.
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Özge Samancı
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- university teacher
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Özge Samancı is a Turkish-American media artist, and associate professor at Northwestern University`s School of Communication. She creates media art installations and graphic novels. Her art installations merge computer code and bio-sensors with comics, animation, interactive narrations, performance, and projection art. Her installations use media arts to break down people's mental and emotional barriers and hear about environmental issues. Her graphic novels combine drawings with three-dimensional objects.
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Çiler İlhan
- Enrolled in Bogazici University
- Graduated with international relations
- Occupations
- writeressayistpublic relations executivetranslatorjournalist
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Çiler İlhan is a Turkish-Dutch writer. She studied International Relations and Political Science at Boğaziçi University. She has variously worked as an hotelier, a writer and an editor.
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Seda Eğridere
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- screenwriterfilm director
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Seda Eğridere is a Turkish actress and film director. Eğridere acted in Alina, the Turkish Assassin. In an interview with Hurriyet, Bobby Roth said "I accepted the project and agreed to shoot in Turkey only because I trusted Seda." In 2014, Eğridere made her directorial debut with the wartime drama Seasons of War, a story about a multi-ethnic couple during the Siege of Sarajevo.
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Yener Sonusen
- Occupations
- businessperson
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Yener Mehmet Sonuşen is a Turkish businessman. He is on the boards of Savola Food Inc., Yudum Food Co., Bahçeşehir Koleji and Egypt food Co.
