* 2000 – Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.

* 1988 – The Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, providing the second connection between the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus.

* 1456 – Ottoman Wars in Europe: Siege of Belgrade – John Hunyadi, Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary, defeats Mehmet II of the Ottoman Empire

* 1913 – Mehmet Shehu, Albanian politician ( d. 1981 )

* 1979 – Mehmet Okur, Turkish basketball player

* 1981 – Mehmet Ali Ağca attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square in Rome.

* 1990 – Mehmet Ekici, Turkish footballer

Mehmed III Adli ( Ottoman Turkish: محمد ثالث Meḥmed-i < u > s </ u > āli < u > s </ u >, Turkish: III. Mehmet ; < span dir =" ltr "> May 26, 1566 – December 21 / 22, 1603 )</ span > was sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1595 until his death.

* 1996 – Death of Abdullah Çatlı, leader of the Turkish ultra-nationalist organisation Grey Wolves in the Susurluk car-crash, which leads to the resignation of the Turkish Interior Minister, Mehmet Ağar ( a leader of the True Path Party, DYP ).

* 1970 – Mehmet Scholl, German footballer

* 1983 – Mehmet Topuz, Turkish footballer

* May 13 – Pope John Paul II is shot and nearly killed by Mehmet Ali Ağca, a Turkish gunman, as he enters St. Peter's Square in Vatican City to address a general audience.

* October 18 – Mehmet Esat Bülkat, Ottoman general ( d. 1952 )

* May – Karamanlı Mehmet Pasha, Ottoman ( Turkish ) grand vizier

* May 20 – July 9 – Zarafa, a giraffe presented by the Ottoman Viceroy of Egypt, Mehmet Ali Pasha, to King Charles X of France, the first to be seen in Europe for over three centuries, walks from Marseilles to Paris.

* April 2 – May 29 – Siege and Fall of Constantinople ( now Istanbul ): The Ottoman Sultan Mehmet II the Conqueror ends the Roman Empire by capturing the capital, Constantinople.

* date unknown – Baltacı Mehmet Pasha, Ottoman ( Turkish ) grand vizier ( b. 1662 )

* Mehmet Şevket Bey, 11 April 1908 – 31 March 1911.

Following the end of the 2011 NBA lockout that saw the 2011 – 12 season shortened to 66 games, the Jazz bid farewell to their two longest-tenured players – Mehmet Okur was traded to the Nets for a future 2nd-round pick, and Andrei Kirilenko, who played in his native Russia during the lockout and whose contract had expired after the 2011 season, decided to stay in Russia for the remainder of the 2011 – 12 season.

* Mehmet Şimşek – Minister of Finance of Turkey

* Turkish journalist Uğur Mumcu of Cumhuriyet had been involved in several high profile and sensitive investigations before his murder in 1993, such as the Kurdish Worker's Party's ties to intelligence, Iranian support for the Kurdish Hezbollah, and even the background of Pope John Paul II's assassin Mehmet Ali Ağca.

As the leader of the National Unity Party, he was appointed TRNC Prime Minister in four successive governments between 1985 and 1993 ( He was opposition leader between 1994 and 1996 ), and from 1996 until his party lost the general election to the Republican Turkish Party under Mehmet Ali Talat in 2004.

Mehmet Barış Manço ( also spelled Boris Mancho in some European album releases ), born Tosun Yusuf Mehmet Barış Manço, ( January 2, 1943-February 1, 1999 ) was a Turkish rock singer, composer, and television producer.

Among these were important historical figures, including Iljaz Hoxha, Hamza Kastrioti, Davud Pasha, Zağanos Pasha, Köprülü Mehmed Pasha ( head of the Köprülü family of Grand Viziers ), the Bushati family, Sulejman Pasha, Edhem Pasha, Nezim Frakulla, Ali Pasha of Tepelena, Haxhi Shekreti, Hasan Zyko Kamberi, Ali Pasha of Gucia, Mehmet Ali ruler of Egypt and Emin Pasha.

* Mehmet Oz ( Turkish: Öz ) ( born 1960 ), a Turkish-American surgeon, author and promoter of alternative medicine

The Ottoman fleet had a Y shaped configuration: Barbarossa, together with his son Hasan Reis ( later Hasan Pasha ), Sinan Reis, Cafer Reis and Şaban Reis, was at the center ; Seydi Ali Reis commanded the left wing ; Salih Reis commanded the right wing ; while Turgut Reis, accompanied by Murat Reis, Güzelce Mehmet Reis and Sadık Reis, commanded the rear wing.

Mehmet Fuat Köprülü ( December 5, 1890 – June 28, 1966 ), aka Köprülüzade, who traced his descent from the illustrious Köprülü family, was a Turkish politician and historian, known for his contributions to Ottoman history, Turkish folklore and language.

* Mehmet, Ozay ( 1990 ), Islamic Identity and Development: Studies of the Islamic Periphery, Rutledge, ASIN: B000FBFF5Y

Mehmet claims to have learned his art from Mikhail Zilcan ( sometimes spelled Zildjian ), the grandson of Kerope Zilcan after whom the Zildjian K series is named.

Some years later — according to other sources, this occurred in 1545 under Sultan Suleyman I — Mehmet II had another covered market built, the Sandal Bedesten ( the name comes from a kind of thread woven in Bursa which had the colour of sandalwood ), also named " Küçük " (), " Cedit " or " Yeni " ( both words meaning in ) Bedesten, which lay north of the first.

Although the influence of Turkic nobility continued in the Ottoman court until Mehmet II ( see Çandarlı Halil ), the Ottoman ruling class slowly came to be ruled exclusively by the devşirme, creating a separate social class.

* Mehmet Topuz ( 1983 ), footballer playing for Fenerbahçe

* Mehmet Yıldız ( 1981 ), footballer.

Bruguière counselled Italian senator Paolo Guzzanti ( Forza Italia ), in charge of the Mitrokhin Commission, endorsing the old thesis, once supported by the CIA, according to which the Soviet Union was behind Mehmet Ali Agca's 1981 assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II.

Another mosque, Köprülü Mehmet Paşa Mosque ( also called Yali Mosque ), is also a monument.

Some of the more influential writers to come out of this less far-rightist branch of the National Literature movement were the poet Mehmet Emin Yurdakul ( 1869 – 1944 ), the early feminist novelist Halide Edip Adıvar ( 1884 – 1964 ), and the short-story writer and novelist Reşat Nuri Güntekin ( 1889 – 1956 ).

The scandal led to the resignation of his Interior Minister, Mehmet Ağar ( a leader of the True Path Party, DYP ), following revelations that Abdullah Çatlı, leader of the far-right Grey Wolves organisation, worked for the state.

Today's Antioch is studied by Dr. Mehmet Taşlıalan, Director of Yalvaç Museum ( 1979 – 2002 ), and Tekin Bayram, Mayor of Yalvaç.

Several international players, Pau Gasol ( Spain ), Tony Parker ( France ) and Mehmet Okur ( Turkey ) became NBA All-Stars.

* Johannes Avetaranian ( a. k. a. Mehmet Sükrü ), Seyyid ( self-proclaimed descendant of the prophet Muhammed ), Christian missionary

The Nubian Giraffe, by Jacques-Laurent Agasse ( c. 1827 ), depicts one of the three giraffe s sent to Europe by Mehmet Ali Pasha ( another was Giraffe given to Charles X of France by Muhammad Ali of Egypt | Zarafa ).

Ahmet Tevfik İleri ( who was born in Yaltkaya ( Gomno ) village of Hemşin ), a Deputy Prime Minister and before that, a Minister of Education in Turkey within successive Adnan Menderes governments between 1950 – 1960, as well as Damat Mehmet Ali Pasha, the Ottoman Grand Vizier on the eve of the Crimean War in 1853 were also Hamshenis.

* Mehmet Niyazi ( 1878 – 1931 ), Romananian and Crimean Tatar poet and activist