* 1925 – Bülent Ecevit, Turkish politician, poet, writer, scholar, and journalist, Prime Minister of Turkey ( d. 2006 )

* Sadri Maksudi Arsal, prominent Tatar and Turkish statesman, scholar and thinker.

The term has been described by Frenchman Félix Buffière in 1980 and Pakistani scholar Tariq Rahman, who argued that " ephebophilia " should be used in preference to " homosexuality " when describing the aesthetic and erotic interest of adult men in adolescent boys in classical Persian, Turkish or Urdu literature.

* Maximus Planudes ( Turkish scholar and theologian )

After Harrow Amery went to Balliol College, Oxford, where he performed well: he gained a First at in classical moderations in 1894 ; in literae humaniores in 1896 ; he was proxime accessit ( runner-up ) to the Craven scholar in 1894 and Ouseley scholar in Turkish in 1896, also winning a half-blue in cross-country running.

* İsmail Beşikçi, Turkish scholar

A mufti (, &# x200a ;, Turkish: müftü ) is a Sunni Islamic scholar who is an interpreter or expounder of Islamic law ( Sharia and fiqh ).

As a Turkish scholar has observed:

Turkish scholar Abdülbaki Gölpinarli sees even the Kizilbash of the 16th century-a radical Shī ‘ a movement in Persia which helped the Safavid dynasty establish this branch of Islam as the dominant religion of Iran-as " spiritual descendants of the Khurramites " and, hence, of the Mazdakites.

In the Islamic world, the atlas was partially translated by the Turkish scholar Katip Çelebi.

* Mahmud al-Kashgari, Turkish scholar

Shibli was a versatile scholar in Arabic, Persian, Hindi, Turkish and Urdu.

Following a 1984 campaign by Turkish scholar Nusret Sancaklı denouncing the use of this name for brothels, the new name " soapland " was the winning entry in a nationwide contest to rename them.

See also Benjamin Schatzma's " Journal d ' un interné, Volume II ", the works of historian and university scholar Esther Benbassa, and the article by Claude Wainstain on Necdet Kent, another " Turkish Schindler ", whose biography seems also legendary.

Kâmran İnan ( Hizan, Bitlis, 1929 ), a well known Turkish politician, diplomat, and scholar was from Bitlis.

His father, Sadreddin Yuksel, an Islamic scholar, taught Arabic at a Turkish university.

German Swiss scholar Hans-Lukas Kieser writes that the documents related to fifteen Turkish ministers published by V. Dadrian show best the ministers ' conception of their responsibility in the " abuses " committed against Ottoman Armenians.

In this context, Turkish scholar Abdülbaki Gölpinarli sees the Kizilbash as " spiritual descendants of the Khurramites ".

According to Turkish scholar Abdülbaki Gölpinarli, the Qizilbash (" Red-Heads ") of the 16th century-a religious and political movement in Azerbaijan that helped to establish the Safavid dynasty-were " spiritual descendants of the Khurramites ".