18 Notable alumni of
Hacettepe University
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Hacettepe University is 843rd in the world, 176th in Asia, and 9th in Turkey by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 18 notable alumni from Hacettepe 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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Erdal Beşikçioğlu
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- politicianactortelevision actor
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Erdal Beşikçioğlu is a Turkish actor and politician. He is mayor of the Etimesgut district of Ankara.
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Tuğrul Türkeş
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- politicianjournalisteconomist
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Yıldırım Tuğrul Türkeş is a Turkish economist and politician, who served as Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey from 28 August 2015 to 19 July 2017. He first joined the interim election government formed by Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu on 28 August 2015 as a Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) politician. He later defected to the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and was elected as an MP for the AKP in the November 2015 general election, continuing to serve as Deputy Prime Minister in the subsequent AKP majority government. He has been a Member of Parliament for Ankara's first electoral district since the 2007 general election and is the eldest son of the MHP's founder Alparslan Türkeş. He is the former leader of the Bright Turkey Party (ATP), which he led from 1997 to 2002.
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Ziya Selçuk
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- politician
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Ziya Selçuk is a Turkish politician and educator. He is the former Minister of National Education. He was formerly a professor of education at Gazi University.
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Cem Yiğit Üzümoğlu
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- actor
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Cem Yiğit Üzümoğlu is a Turkish actor. He came to fame by appearing in the youth series Adı Efsane as Hakan.
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Canan Dağdeviren
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- engineer
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Canan Dağdeviren is a Turkish academic, physicist, material scientist, and Associate Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she currently holds the LG Career Development Professorship in Media Arts and Sciences. Dagdeviren is the first Turkish scientist in the history of the Harvard Society to become a Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. As a faculty member, she directs her own Conformable Decoders research group at the MIT Media Lab. The group works at the intersection of materials science, engineering and biomedical engineering. They create mechanically adaptive electromechanical systems that can intimately integrate with the target object of interest for sensing, actuation, and energy harvesting, among other applications. Dagdeviren believes that vital information from nature and the human body is "coded" in various forms of physical patterns. Her research focuses on the creation of conformable decoders that can "decode" these patterns into beneficial signals and/or energy.
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Semra Sezer
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- politician
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Semra Sezer was the First Lady of Turkey from May 2000 until August 2007 during the presidency of her husband Ahmet Necdet Sezer.
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Vedat Işıkhan
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- politician
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Vedat Işıkhan is a Turkish politician and professor. He is the minister of labour and social security, Turkey. He was born in Artuklu, Mardin into a ethnically Kurdish family.
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Mustafa Akaydın
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- surgeonpolitician
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Mustafa Akaydın is a Turkish politician of the Republican People's Party (CHP), who served as the mayor of Antalya, Turkey. Prior to his political career, Akaydın held positions as a professor, general surgeon and a rector of Akdeniz University.
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Tekin Bingöl
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- surgeonpolitician
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Tekin Bingöl is a Turkish politician who serves as the Deputy Leader of the Republican People's Party responsible for political organisation since 8 May 2014. He has served as a Member of Parliament for Ankara's second electoral district since 7 June 2015, elected at the June 2015 general election. He previously served as an MP for Ankara's second electoral district between 2007 and 2011.
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Murat Emir
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- politician
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Murat Emir is a Turkish ophthalmologist, jurist and politician from the Republican People's Party (CHP) who has served as the Member of Parliament for Ankara (II) since June 2015.
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Mahmud A. Asrar
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- comics artistpenciller
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Mahmud Anjum Asrar is an Austrian comic book artist who is known for his work on American and non-American comic books.
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Kıvanç Haznedaroğlu
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- chess player
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Kıvanç Haznedaroğlu is a Turkish chess Grandmaster and a FIDE trainer. As of the July 2013 FIDE rating list, he is ranked among active players number 1,798 in the world and number twelve in Turkey. He earned the title of Grandmaster (GM) on 18 October 2009. He studied Hydrogeology at Hacettepe University in Ankara.
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Deniz Orhun
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- chefcookbook writerpastry chef
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Deniz Orhun is a chef, agricultural engineer, media personality, and businesswoman.
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Necla Güngör
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- association football manager
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Necla Güngör Kıragası is a Turkish football manager, currently serving as the technical director of the Turkey women's national team. She was previously the manager of the Turkey girls' national U-15 and U-17 teams.
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Kubra Ozturk Orenli
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- chess player
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Kübra Öztürk is a Turkish chess player. As of the July 2012 FIDE rating list, she is ranked number 199 in the world and second in Turkey among female active players. She earned FIDE titles as Woman FIDE Master (WFM) in 2006, Woman International Master (WIM) in 2009 and Woman Grandmaster (WGM) on February 5, 2011.
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Naeem Al-Rubaie
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- 1970-.. (age 55)
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- professorpoliticianminister
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Naim Thjeel Yousir Al-Rubaie is an Iraqi independent politician who was Communications Minister from 2018 to 2020 in the Government of Adil Abdul-Mahdi. He was approved by the Council of Representatives on 24 October 2018.
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H. Nida Şen
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- ophthalmologistphysicianacademicscientist
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Hatice Nida Sen is an ophthalmologist researching mechanisms involved in different forms of human uveitis. She is a clinical investigator at the National Eye Institute.
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Nilgün Çelebi
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- sociologist
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Nilgün Çelebi is a Turkish academic.
