Turkey Tourism Guide - Mosques, Historical Places, Towers, Castles

The Conqueror
Mehmed II (also known as el-Fatih (??????), “the Conqueror”, in Ottoman Turkish, or, in modern Turkish, Fatih Sultan Mehmet) (March 30, 1432  May 3, 1481) (Arabic: ???? ??????) was first the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire for a short time from 1444 to 1446, and later from 1451 to 1481. He was also the […]

Osmanli Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
Suleiman I (Modern Turkish: Süleyman; Arabic: ??????? Sulayman) (November 6, 1494  September 5/6, 1566), was the tenth Osmanli Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, and its longest-serving, reigning from 1520 to 1566. Under his leadership, the Ottoman Empire reached its zenith and became a world power, and Suleiman was considered one […]

Turkish business tycoon and an philanthropist
Following his military service, he started actively working for the Koç Group in 1958 joining the Otokoç Company in Ankara. In 1960, he transferred to Koç Ticaret, which represented the Koç Group in Ankara. Following the relocation of the Koç Holding headquarters from Ankara to Istanbul in 1964, which was […]

Turkish medical scientist and neurosurgeon
After attending school and college in Ankara, Turkey between 1931 and 1943, he started to study medicine in January 1944 at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany. Due to the problems during the end of the World War II, he left Germany in May 1945 to continue his study at […]

Fatih Terim is one of the most successful footballers and trainers in Turkey. He is the current coach of the Turkish national team. Born on September 4, 1953 in Adana, Turkey into a poor family, he attended a vocational high school but soon dropped out of school to play soccer.
In 1969 Terim’s professional football career […]

Eurovision Song Contest 2003
Sertab Erener (born 1964) is a Turkish pop star, best known for winning the Eurovision Song Contest 2003 with Every Way That I Can.
Career
A native of Istanbul, Erener began her musical career working with Turkish pop singer Sezen Aksu.

Turkish economist and politician
Kemal Dervis (Turkish: Kemal Derviş) is a Turkish economist and politician. He was born on January 10, 1949 in Istanbul to a Turkish father and a German mother.
As Minister for Economic Affairs in Turkey when Bülent Ecevit was prime minister, Derviş was the architect of Turkey ’s successful three-year economic recovery program […]

One of the best known writers from Turkey
Yaşar Kemal (born Kemal Sadık Gökçeli) is one of the best known writers from Turkey. He was born in 1923 in Hemite (now Gökçeadam), a hamlet in the province of Adana in southern Turkey.
His first book of short stories Sarı Sıcak (Yellow Heat) was published in 1952. He […]

Popular pop music singer
Mustafa Sandal accomplished his high school studies in Geneva (Switzerland) and did two years of Marketing studies in New Hampshire College (USA) but he gave up his studies for music and went back to Istanbul (Turkey) his native country.
In 1994, his album “Suc Bende” sold 1,5 million Tapes and 200,000 CDs and […]

Turkish pianist and composer
Born in Ankara, Turkey, Fazıl Say studied piano and composition at the Ankara State Conservatory. At the age of seventeen he was awarded a scholarship that enabled him to study for five years with David Levine at the Robert Schumann Institute in Düsseldorf. From 1992 to 1995 he continued his studies at […]