25 Notable alumni of
Dokuz Eylul University
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Dokuz Eylul University is 879th in the world, 182nd in Asia, and 10th in Turkey by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 25 notable alumni from Dokuz Eylul 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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Selahattin Demirtaş
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- authorpoliticianlawyer
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Selahattin Demirtaş is a Turkish politician, author, political prisoner and former member of the parliament of Turkey. He was the co-leader of the left-wing pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), serving alongside Figen Yüksekdağ from 2014 to 2018. Selahattin Demirtaş announced that he left politics after the May 2023 elections.
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Rıza Kocaoğlu
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- actor
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Rıza Kocaoğlu is a Turkish actor. Born and raised in İzmir, he is mainly known for his role as Ali in the television series Kuzey Güney.
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Damla Colbay
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- television actor
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Damla Colbay is a Turkish actress.
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Şenay Gürler
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- film actortelevision actorcooktelevision presenterstage actor
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Şenay Gürler is a Turkish actress.
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Fatma Turgut
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- lyricistcomposermusiciansinger
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Fatma Turgut is a Turkish rock music singer.
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Emre Aydın
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- singersinger-songwriter
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Emre Aydın is a Turkish rock singer-songwriter. The singer won the MTV Europe Music Awards 2008 in the "Europe's Favourite Act" category. He is also the former lead singer for the Turkish rock band 6. Cadde.
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Oktay Vural
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- politician
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Oktay Vural is a Turkish politician, lawyer and former bureaucrat.
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Tunç Soyer
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- mayorlawyer
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Mustafa Tunç Soyer is a Turkish politician from the Republican People's Party (CHP) who currently serves as the Mayor of İzmir, Turkey's third largest city. He was elected to the position in the 2019 mayoral election. He previously served as the mayor of Seferihisar, a coastal district of İzmir, from 2009 to 2019.
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Şahap Kavcıoğlu
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- economistpolitician
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Şahap Kavcıoğlu is a Turkish banker and politician. He was a Member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey for the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and was the Governor of the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey from 2021 to 2023. He is also a contributor to the newspaper Yeni Safak and is described as a supporter of the economic policies of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
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Sarp Apak
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- actor
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Sarp Apak is a Turkish actor.
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Cengiz Küçükayvaz
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- television actorvoice actorfilm actoractor
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Cengiz Küçükayvaz is a Turkish actor who usually appears in comedic roles.
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İsmet Sezgin
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- politician
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İsmet Sezgin was a Turkish politician who served as the Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey and Minister of National Defense from 1997 to 1999, as the Speaker of the Grand National Assembly in 1995, as the Minister of the Interior from 1991 to 1993, as the Minister of Finance from 1979 to 1980 and as the Minister of Youth and Sports from 1969 to 1971. Between 1999 and 2002, he served as the Leader of the Democrat Turkey Party, but did not contest any elections.
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Engin Altay
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- politician
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Engin Altay is a Turkish politician from the Republican People's Party (CHP) who serves as a Member of Parliament for the electoral district of Sinop since the 2002. He was re-elected in 2007, 2011, June 2015 and November 2015. On 30 June 2011, Altay was elected as one of the three CHP parliamentary group leaders, serving alongside Muharrem İnce, Akif Hamzaçebi and later Levent Gök.
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Semih Kaplanoğlu
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- film editorfilm directorscreenwriterfilm producerjournalist
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Semih Kaplanoğlu is a Turkish screenwriter, film director and producer.
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Selin Yeninci
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- television actormodelfilm actoractor
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Selin Yeninci is a Turkish actress.
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Hülya Şen
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- actor
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Hülya Şen is a Turkish actress. She is a graduate of Dokuz Eylül University with a degree in theatre studies. While finishing her second year in the university, she appeared in movie by Tekin Akmansoy. She made her television debut in 1994, after which she starred in various films and series. She has received multiple national awards.
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Osman Zolan
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- politicianlawyer
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Osman Zolan is a Turkish politician and lawyer who is the current Mayor of Denizli Metropolitan Municipality of Turkey.
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Ümit Ünal
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- film directorwriterscreenwriter
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Ümit Ünal is a Turkish film director, screenwriter and author. He is the scriptwriter for eight Turkish feature films including Teyzem (My Aunt) (1986), Hayallerim, Askim ve Sen (My Dreams, My Love and You) (1987). His first feature film as a director is 9 which won many awards in various film festivals and was the Official Turkish Entry for the 2003 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He wrote and directed seven feature films including Istanbul Tales (Anlat İstanbul), Ara, Gölgesizler (Shadowless), Ses (The Voice), Nar (The Pomegranate), Serial Cook (Sofra Sırları) and Love, Spells and All That (Aşk, Büyü vs).
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Ayşe Acar Başaran
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- politician
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Ayşe Acar Başaran is a lawyer and politician of the People's Democratic Party (HDP). She is a current Member of Parliament for the city of Batman in Turkey. She was appointed spokesperson for the HDP Women's Council at the 4th HDP Party Conference in February 2020.
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Betül Cemre Yıldız
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- chess playerlawyer
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Betül Cemre Yıldız Kadıoğlu is a top female chess player from Turkey. She is a Woman Grandmaster (WGM), and won the Turkish women's championship eleven times in total. She became in 2004 Woman International Master (WIM), and was awarded the title Woman Grandmaster in 2012, becoming the first ever Turkish WGM. Yıldız won the bronze medal at the World Under-18 Girls Championship of 2007 and at the World Junior Girls Championship of 2009.
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Taner Kılıç
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- 1969-.. (age 55)
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- activistlawyer
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Taner Kılıç is a Turkish civil rights activist who is one of the founding members of the Turkey section of the human rights organisation Amnesty International and its president since 2014. Kılıç was detained by Turkish authorities for alleged terrorist activities on 6 June 2017, during the 2016–17 purges in Turkey.
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Sevgi Çınar
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- association football player
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Sevgi Çınar is a Turkish female footballer who plays for Beylerbeyi of the Turkish Women's Super League with jersey number 77. She was part of the Turkey women's U-19 national football team before she entered the Turkey women's national team. She studied physical education and sports at the Dokuz Eylül University in İzmir.
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Coşkun Can Aktan
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- 1963-.. (age 61)
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- economist
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Coşkun Can Aktan is a political economist and a professor at the Faculty of Economics and Management at Dokuz Eylül University in İzmir, Turkey. He is founder and honorary chairman of the Social Sciences Research Society. Aktan is a leading expert on the privatization of the Turkish economy, analyzing and writing on the movement of Turkey from a statist to a market economy from its early days, making Aktan an early and internationally known source of information on Turkey's move toward a market-based economy.
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Ahmet Bozkurt
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- poetplaywrighteditoressayist
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Ahmet Bozkurt is a Turkish poet, essayist, novelist and editor.
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Hatice Güleryüz
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- television producerartistvisual artist
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Hatice Güleryüz is a contemporary Turkish artist. She has worked in video, film, photography, art books and drawing.
