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.

  1. Fahriye Evcen

    Fahriye Evcen
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1985-.. (age 39)
    Occupations
    film actortelevision actor
    Biography

    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.

  2. Ahmet Davutoğlu

    Ahmet Davutoğlu
    Born in
    Turkey Flag Turkey
    Years
    1959-.. (age 65)
    Occupations
    writerpolitical scientistpedagogueeconomistinternational forum participant
    Biography

    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.

  3. Tansu Çiller

    Tansu Çiller
    Born in
    Turkey Flag Turkey
    Years
    1946-.. (age 78)
    Occupations
    economistpoliticianuniversity teacherdiplomat
    Biography

    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.

  4. Cem Yılmaz

    Cem Yılmaz
    Born in
    Turkey Flag Turkey
    Years
    1973-.. (age 51)
    Occupations
    stand-up comedianvoice actorfilm directorcomedianhumorist
    Biography

    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".

  5. Murat Ülker

    Murat Ülker
    Born in
    Turkey Flag Turkey
    Years
    1959-.. (age 65)
    Occupations
    entrepreneurbusinesspersoninternational forum participant
    Biography

    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.

  6. Gülse Birsel

    Gülse Birsel
    Born in
    Turkey Flag Turkey
    Years
    1971-.. (age 53)
    Occupations
    writerscreenwriteractorpresenterjournalist
    Biography

    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.

  7. Teoman

    Teoman
    Born in
    Turkey Flag Turkey
    Years
    1967-.. (age 57)
    Occupations
    film score composerfilm directorsingerfilm actoractor
    Biography

    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.

  8. Defne Samyeli

    Defne Samyeli
    Born in
    Turkey Flag Turkey
    Years
    1972-.. (age 52)
    Occupations
    film actorcolumnistsingertelevision actorjournalist
    Biography

    Defne Samyeli is a Turkish TV presenter, columnist, singer and actress.

  9. Nil Karaibrahimgil

    Nil Karaibrahimgil
    Born in
    Turkey Flag Turkey
    Years
    1976-.. (age 48)
    Occupations
    songwritercomposerfilm actorsinger
    Biography

    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.

  10. Güler Sabancı

    Güler Sabancı
    Born in
    Turkey Flag Turkey
    Years
    1955-.. (age 69)
    Enrolled in Bogazici University
    Studied administration
    Occupations
    entrepreneureconomistbusinesspersonmanagerinternational forum participant
    Biography

    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.

  11. Pelin Batu

    Pelin Batu
    Born in
    Turkey Flag Turkey
    Years
    1978-.. (age 46)
    Occupations
    actorwriter
    Biography

    Pelin Batu is a Turkish author, actress, historian, and television personality.

  12. Saadet Aksoy

    Saadet Aksoy
    Born in
    Turkey Flag Turkey
    Years
    1983-.. (age 41)
    Occupations
    film actoractor
    Biography

    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.

  13. Aslı Erdoğan

    Aslı Erdoğan
    Born in
    Turkey Flag Turkey
    Years
    1967-.. (age 57)
    Occupations
    physicisthuman rights activistwritercolumnist
    Biography

    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.

  14. Zeynep Tüfekçi

    Zeynep Tüfekçi
    Born in
    Turkey Flag Turkey
    Years
    20th Century
    Enrolled in Bogazici University
    Graduated with Bachelor of Science in computer programming
    Occupations
    university teachersociologistwriterjournalistopinion journalist
    Biography

    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."

  15. Harun Tekin

    Harun Tekin
    Born in
    Turkey Flag Turkey
    Years
    1977-.. (age 47)
    Occupations
    singer
    Biography

    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.

  16. Feridun Sinirlioğlu

    Feridun Sinirlioğlu
    Born in
    Turkey Flag Turkey
    Years
    1956-.. (age 68)
    Occupations
    diplomat
    Biography

    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.

  17. Sedef Kabaş

    Sedef Kabaş
    Born in
    United Kingdom Flag United Kingdom
    Years
    1968-.. (age 56)
    Occupations
    journalist
    Biography

    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.

  18. Arzuhan Doğan Yalçındağ

    Arzuhan Doğan Yalçındağ
    Born in
    Turkey Flag Turkey
    Years
    1965-.. (age 59)
    Occupations
    entrepreneurbusinesspersoninternational forum participant
    Biography

    Arzuhan Doğan Yalçındağ is a Turkish businesswoman and chairwoman of the Doğan Holding industrial conglomerate.

  19. Mustafa Akyol

    Mustafa Akyol
    Born in
    Turkey Flag Turkey
    Years
    1972-.. (age 52)
    Occupations
    journalistwriterpolitical analyst
    Biography

    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.

  20. Aylin Aslım

    Aylin Aslım
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1976-.. (age 48)
    Occupations
    songwritersingerfilm actoractorrecording artist
    Biography

    Aylin Aslım is a Turkish singer, songwriter and actress.

  21. Enis Berberoğlu

    Enis Berberoğlu
    Born in
    Turkey Flag Turkey
    Years
    1956-.. (age 68)
    Occupations
    politicianjournalist
    Biography

    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.

  22. Ömür Gedik

    Ömür Gedik
    Years
    1970-.. (age 54)
    Occupations
    writerjournalist
    Biography

    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).

  23. Reha Erdem

    Reha Erdem
    Born in
    Turkey Flag Turkey
    Years
    1960-.. (age 64)
    Occupations
    film editorfilm directorscreenwriter
    Biography

    Reha Erdem is a Turkish film director and screenwriter.

  24. Taylan Yıldız

    Taylan Yıldız
    Born in
    Turkey Flag Turkey
    Years
    1980-.. (age 44)
    Enrolled in Bogazici University
    In 2001 graduated with bachelor's degree
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Vedat Taylan Yıldız is a member of the Good Party group in the Municipal Council of Istanbul.

  25. Hilal Kaplan

    Hilal Kaplan
    Born in
    Turkey Flag Turkey
    Years
    1982-.. (age 42)
    Occupations
    journalist
    Biography

    Hilal Kaplan is a Turkish journalist and TRT board member and columnist for the Turkish newspaper Sabah.

  26. Hurşit Güneş

    Hurşit Güneş
    Years
    1957-.. (age 67)
    Occupations
    economistpolitician
    Biography

    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.

  27. Ravza Kavakcı Kan

    Ravza Kavakcı Kan
    Born in
    Turkey Flag Turkey
    Years
    1972-.. (age 52)
    Occupations
    politicianuniversity teacher
    Biography

    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.

  28. Mehmet Fatih Kacır

    Mehmet Fatih Kacır
    Born in
    Turkey Flag Turkey
    Years
    1984-.. (age 40)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Mehmet Fatih Kacır is a Turkish politician and entrepreneur.

  29. İbrahim Eren

    İbrahim Eren
    Born in
    United Kingdom Flag United Kingdom
    Years
    1980-.. (age 44)
    Biography

    İbrahim Eren is a Turkish bureaucrat.

  30. Suat Atalık

    Suat Atalık
    Born in
    Turkey Flag Turkey
    Years
    1964-.. (age 60)
    Occupations
    chess player
    Biography

    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.

  31. Genco Gulan

    Genco Gulan
    Born in
    Turkey Flag Turkey
    Years
    1969-.. (age 55)
    Occupations
    painterphotographerchoreographertelevision producersculptor
    Biography

    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.

  32. Ayşe Sinirlioğlu

    Ayşe Sinirlioğlu
    Born in
    Turkey Flag Turkey
    Years
    1956-.. (age 68)
    Occupations
    diplomat
    Biography

    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.

  33. Pelin Esmer

    Pelin Esmer
    Born in
    Turkey Flag Turkey
    Years
    1972-.. (age 52)
    Occupations
    film directorscreenwriterfilm editorfilm producer
    Biography

    Pelin Esmer is a Turkish screenwriter and director.

  34. Murat Gülsoy

    Murat Gülsoy
    Born in
    Turkey Flag Turkey
    Years
    1967-.. (age 57)
    Occupations
    writer
    Biography

    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.

  35. Celil Oker

    Celil Oker
    Born in
    Turkey Flag Turkey
    Years
    1952-2019 (aged 67)
    Occupations
    writerjournalist
    Biography

    Celil Oker was a Turkish crime fiction writer.

  36. Baybars Altuntaş

    Baybars Altuntaş
    Born in
    Turkey Flag Turkey
    Years
    1969-.. (age 55)
    Occupations
    writerentrepreneur
    Biography

    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

  37. Taner Edis

    Taner Edis
    Years
    1967-.. (age 57)
    Occupations
    physicist
    Biography

    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.

  38. Burak Akcapar

    Burak Akcapar
    Born in
    Turkey Flag Turkey
    Years
    1967-.. (age 57)
    Occupations
    diplomat
    Biography

    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.

  39. Hişyar Özsoy

    Hişyar Özsoy
    Born in
    Turkey Flag Turkey
    Years
    1977-.. (age 47)
    Occupations
    politicianacademic
    Biography

    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)

  40. Sedat Bornovalı

    Sedat Bornovalı
    Born in
    Turkey Flag Turkey
    Years
    1970-.. (age 54)
    Occupations
    linguistart historian
    Biography

    Sedat Bornovalı is an art historian (PhD), interpreter and professional tourist guide in Italian, English and Turkish.

  41. Uğur Ersoy

    Uğur Ersoy
    Born in
    Turkey Flag Turkey
    Years
    1932-.. (age 92)
    Occupations
    engineer
    Biography

    Uğur Ersoy is a Turkish civil engineer and academic.

  42. Tuna Altinel

    Tuna Altinel
    Born in
    Turkey Flag Turkey
    Years
    1966-.. (age 58)
    Occupations
    mathematician
    Biography

    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.

  43. Mehmet Ali İrtemçelik

    Mehmet Ali İrtemçelik
    Born in
    Turkey Flag Turkey
    Years
    1950-.. (age 74)
    Occupations
    politiciandiplomat
    Biography

    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.

  44. Niko Guido

    Niko Guido
    Born in
    Turkey Flag Turkey
    Years
    1966-.. (age 58)
    Occupations
    photographer
    Biography

    Niko Guido is a Turkish-French photographer.

  45. Zeynep Ergun

    Zeynep Ergun
    Born in
    Turkey Flag Turkey
    Years
    1953-2022 (aged 69)
    Occupations
    professorlinguist
    Biography

    Zeynep Ergun was a professor at Institute of Social Sciences English Language and Literature Department of Istanbul University.

  46. Halil Mete Soner

    Halil Mete Soner
    Born in
    Turkey Flag Turkey
    Years
    1959-.. (age 65)
    Occupations
    mathematician
    Biography

    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.

  47. Özdil Nami

    Özdil Nami
    Born in
    United Kingdom Flag United Kingdom
    Years
    1967-.. (age 57)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    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.

  48. Halil Güven

    Halil Güven
    Born in
    Cyprus Flag Cyprus
    Years
    1956-.. (age 68)
    Occupations
    engineer
    Biography

    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.

  49. Özge Samancı

    Özge Samancı
    Born in
    Turkey Flag Turkey
    Years
    1975-.. (age 49)
    Occupations
    university teacher
    Biography

    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.

  50. Çiler İlhan

    Çiler İlhan
    Born in
    Turkey Flag Turkey
    Years
    1972-.. (age 52)
    Enrolled in Bogazici University
    Graduated with international relations
    Occupations
    writeressayistpublic relations executivetranslatorjournalist
    Biography

    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.

  51. Seda Eğridere

    Seda Eğridere
    Born in
    Turkey Flag Turkey
    Years
    1982-.. (age 42)
    Occupations
    screenwriterfilm director
    Biography

    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.

  52. Yener Sonusen

    Yener Sonusen
    Born in
    Turkey Flag Turkey
    Years
    1959-.. (age 65)
    Occupations
    businessperson
    Biography

    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.