1. PEOPLE & FAMOUS TURKS

2. FAMOUS TURKS Prepared by Nur Aktas Ceren Çetiner H. Ilknur Halıcı
Kıvılcım Serdaroglu

3. 8 Sub-Headings That We’ll Talk About
Politics,
Mariner,
Music,
Poetry,
Literature,
Architecture,
Medicine,
Comics.

4. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881-1938)
POLITICS
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk ( )

5. İsmet İnönü ( )
Kanuni Sultan Süleyman
Fatih Sultan Mehmet ( )
Tansu Çiller-The first female Prime Minister Kemal Derviş
İsmail Cem ( )

6. MARINER
Piri Reis ( )
The famous Turkish sailor and the first Turkish marine cartographer.
His World Map and Mariners’ Book are his world-wide known works.

7. MUSIC
İdil Biret Güher-Süher Pekinel
Suna Kan Fazıl Say
Tarkan

8. POETRY Yunus Emre Mevlana (1204-1273) Nazım Hikmet (1902-1963)
Mevlana ( )
He summarized his life with the words,
“I was raw, cooked and then burned.”
Nazım Hikmet ( )

9. NOVELISTS
Orhan Pamuk
Yaşar Kemal

10. ARCHITECTURE Mimar Sinan He is an architect who grew
up in one of the most splendid
periods of the Ottoman State,
and who contributed to this era
with his works.

11. MEDICINE
İbn-i Sina
The great doctor, scholar and philosopher of the eastern world during the Middle Ages.
Mehmet Öz
Cardio Surger

12. Great and famous folk philosopher
COMICS
Nasreddin Hoca
Great and famous folk philosopher
whose memory has a legend. His anectodes which are verbally transmitted at everywhere Turkish is spoken is popular among all classes and levels of people.

13. SUMMARY FAMOUS TURKS Politics, Mariner, Music, Poetry, Literature,
Architecture,
Medicine,
Comics

14. CONTACT INFO
Nur Aktaş
Ceren Çetiner
H.İlknur Halıcı
Kıvılcım Serdaroglu or
Jerry Willis
Iowa State Unıversity