* 1929 – Abdi İpekçi, Turkish journalist ( d. 1979 )

* 1939 – Ahmet Taner Kışlalı, Turkish politician, journalist, and educator ( d. 1999 )

* 1993 – Turkish journalist and writer Uğur Mumcu is assassinated by a car bomb in Ankara.

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

Mehmet Ali Ağca (; born January 9, 1958 ) is a Turkish assassin who murdered left-wing journalist Abdi İpekçi on February 1, 1979 and later shot and wounded Pope John Paul II on May 13, 1981, after escaping from a Turkish prison.

* Adnan Veli ( 1916 – 1972 ), Turkish journalist, brother of poet Orhan Veli

* Nuray Mert ( born 1960 ), Turkish journalist and political scientist

Wolfowitz was on the endowment's board — which is how Riza first met him, according to Turkish journalist Cengiz Candar, a friend of the couple.

* Ali Kemal Bey, Turkish journalist, newspaper editor and poet

* Abdi İpekçi, Turkish journalist

* Mehmet Ali Birand, Turkish journalist

Most residents prefer to watch Turkish television as opposed to Nakhchivan television, which one Azerbaijani journalist criticised as " a propaganda vehicle for Talibov and the Aliyevs.

The leftists also are very critical of the party's continuous opposition to the removal of Article 301 of Turkish penal code ; which caused people to be prosecuted for " insulting Turkishness " including Nobel Winner author Orhan Pamuk, Elif Şafak, and the conviction of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, its attitude towards the minorities in Turkey, as well as its Cyprus policy.

The machine consisted of a life-sized model of a human head and torso, with a black beard and grey eyes, and dressed in Turkish robes and a turban – " the traditional costume ", according to journalist and author Tom Standage, " of an oriental sorcerer.

Namık Kemal was a prominent Turkish poet, novelist, playwright and journalist of the late 19th century Ottoman Empire.

Many of the writers in the Tanzimat period wrote in several different genres simultaneously: for instance, the poet Nâmık Kemal also wrote the important 1876 novel İntibâh ( Awakening ), while the journalist Şinasi is noted for writing, in 1860, the first modern Turkish play, the one-act comedy " Şair Evlenmesi " ( The Poet's Marriage ).

Burak Eldem ( born 1961 ) is a Turkish writer / researcher, a former radio and TV programmer, web developer and journalist.

Turkish journalist and researcher Dursun Özden has made a documentary revealing the world ’ s oldest waterways and historical water structures in Anatolia during a six-month visit to 66 Turkish provinces.

The world ’ s oldest water structures in Anatolia are the subject of a new documentary series by Turkish journalist and writer Dursun Özden.

* Agah Efendi ( 1832 – 1885 ), journalist, publisher of the first Turkish newspaper

* Murat Bardakçı, Turkish journalist

Many of the writers in the Tanzimat period wrote in several different genres simultaneously: for instance, the poet Nâmık Kemal ( 1840 – 1888 ) also wrote the important 1876 novel İntibâh ( انتباه ; " Awakening "), while the journalist İbrahim Şinasi ( 1826 – 1871 ) is noted for writing, in 1860, the first modern Turkish play, the one-act comedy " Şair Evlenmesi " ( شاعر اولنمسى ; " The Poet's Marriage ").

* 1980 – Uğur Rıfat Karlova, Turkish comedian and actor

* Uğur Arslan Kuru, Turkish footballer

Journalist Uğur Mumcu ( assassinated in 1993 ) later wrote that he had been arrested and tortured after the coup by people declaring themselves as belonging to Counter-guerilla ( the name of the Turkish Gladio ).

* Uğur Arslan Kuru ( born 1986 ), Turkish footballer

Uğur Gürses is a Turkish financial columnist.

Yıl Cumhuriyet Anadolu Lisesi in Turkish )

* Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi ( Republican People's Party of Turkey ), a Turkish political party.

** Ulus Cumhuriyet Anıtı-Ulus Turkish Republic Memorial

Republic Day ( Turkish: Cumhuriyet Bayramı ) is celebrated throughout Turkey and Northern Cyprus every year.

Notable works include the symphonic arrangement of the original 1921 score for the Turkish National Anthem, İlim Marşı, Azm-ü Ümit Marşı, Töre Marşı, Türk Çocukları, and Cumhuriyet Marşı.

Cumhuriyet () is a centre-left Turkish daily newspaper, founded on May 7, 1924 by journalist Yunus Nadi Abalıoğlu.

* Halil Rifat Paşa ( biography in Turkish in pdf format-abstract also in English ) Sivas Cumhuriyet University

A Turkish Scientist, Prof. Dr. Esat Rennan Pekünlü of Ege University, mistakenly thought that IF was being proposed seriously, and wrote an article in the a popular science journal Cumhuriyet Bilim.

The reign of Ahmed III, which had lasted for twenty-seven years, although marked by the disasters of the Great Turkish War, was not unsuccessful.

He was a cultivated patron of literature and art, and it was in his time that the first printing press authorized to use the Arabic or Turkish languages was set up in Constantinople, operated by Ibrahim Muteferrika ( while the printing press had been introduced to Constantinople in 1480, all works published before 1729 were in Greek, Armenian, or Hebrew ).

This was because in 1448, while Skanderbeg was victoriously fighting off the Turkish invasions, three military columns, commanded by Demetrio Reres along with his sons Giorgio and Basilio, were dispatched to help Alfonso V defeat the barons of Naples who had rebelled against him.

All the supplies of grain of Nauplia and Monemvasia had now to be imported from Turkish possessions, while corsairs rendered dangerous all traffic by sea.

By the mid-10th century, the Samanid Dynasty had crumbled in the face of attacks from Turkish tribes to the north and from the Ghaznavids, a rising Turkic dynasty in Afghanistan.

By the mid-10th century, the Samanid dynasty had crumble in the face of attacks from Turkish tribes to the north and from the Ghaznavids, a rising Turkic Muslim dynasty in Afghanistan.

According to the Turkish Statistical Institute, as of 2011 the city of Bursa had a population of 1, 704, 441 and its metropolitan municipality 1, 948, 744.

The city had one basketball team in Turkish Basketball League, Tofaş S. K.

As a national revival occurred towards the end of the period of Ottoman rule ( mostly during the 19th century ), a modern Bulgarian literary language gradually emerged which drew heavily on Church Slavonic / Old Bulgarian ( and to some extent on literary Russian, which had preserved many lexical items from Church Slavonic ) and later reduced the number of Turkish and other Balkanic loans.

Reinforcements had to come from Asia mainly by sea, which depended on the result of battles between the Turkish and Greek navies in the Aegean.

* took a dim view of any proposals which did not allow for the repatriation of Turkish settlers from the mainland who had emigrated to Cyprus since 1974 ; and

On 29 May 1453, Turkish sultan Mehmed II " the Conqueror " entered Constantinople after a 53 – day siege during which his cannon had torn a huge hole in the Walls of Theodosius II.

The new party had four objectives: to confront Turkish expansionism in Cyprus, to reestablish and solidify democratic rule, to give the country a strong government, and to make a powerful moderate party a force in Greek politics.

* 1826 – French philhellene Charles Nicolas Fabvier forces his way through the Turkish cordon and ascends the Acropolis of Athens, which had been under siege.

The Turkish cavalry had already crossed the river so Eugene decided to attack immediately, arranging his men into a half-moon formation.

The King and Queen were still optimistic – the Byzantine Emperor had told them that the German King Conrad had won a great victory against a Turkish army ( when in fact the German army had been massacred ), and the great troop was still eating well.

Ephrem was born around the year 306 in the city of Nisibis ( the modern Turkish town of Nusaybin, on the border with Syria, which had come into Roman hands only in 298 ).

Former head of Greek intelligence service Leonidas Vasilikopoulos said they had received information from their agents in Turkey that Turkish agents or others were involved in the forest fires on Greek islands.

After making the comments in Turkish daily newspaper BirGün, Yilmaz said that his words had been distorted and that he was referring to Greek agents causing fires in Turkey.

However, on Thursday 29, Turkish daily Milliyet published an article referring to a secret report that seemed to support claims made in the interview by Mesut Yilmaz that secret agents had caused forest fires in Greece in the 1990s.

In February of 2012, it was reported in Turkish newspapers that another Syriac manuscript of the Gospel of Barnabas had been found in Cyprus in 2000, in an operation conducted by police against smugglers ; and, having been kept in a police repository since then, had been deposited in the Ethnography Museum of Ankara.

Prince Menshikov called the attention of the Turks to the fact that during the Russo-Turkish War ( 1768 – 1774 ), the Russians had occupied the Turkish controlled provinces of Wallachia and Moldavia on the north bank of the Danube River, but he reminded them that pursuant to the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca, however, the Russians had returned these " Danubian provinces " to Ottoman control in exchange for the right to protect the Christian sites in the Holy Land.