List of Famous people born in Adana Province

Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ

First Name Kıvanç
Last Name Tatlıtuğ
Born on October 27, 1983 (age 40)
Born in Adana Province

Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ is a Turkish actor, model, and former basketball player. He is one of the highest-paid actors in Turkey and has won many awards, including three Golden Butterfly Awards and a Yeşilçam Cinema Award. Tatlıtuğ won the pageants Best Model of Turkey and Best Model of the World in 2002. Tatlıtuğ has established himself as a leading actor of Turkey with roles in several of the highly successful television series, that includes Menekşe ile Halil (2007–2008), Aşk-ı Memnu (2008–2010), Kuzey Güney (2011–2013) and Cesur ve Güzel (2016–2017), all of which garnered him critical acclaim and international recognition.

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Haluk Levent

First Name Haluk
Born on December 26, 1968 (age 55)
Born in Adana Province

Haluk Levent Acil is a Turkish rock music singer who helped revive the long forgotten Anatolian rock genre in the 1990s.

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Şener Şen

First Name Şener
Last Name Şen
Born on December 26, 1941 (age 82)
Born in Adana Province

Şener Şen is a Turkish film and theatre actor who has won the Golden Orange for Best Actor twice for his roles in Mr. Muhsin (1985) and Lovelorn (2005), the Golden Orange for Best Supporting Actor for Çöpçüler Kralı (1977) and a Golden Orange Lifetime Achievement Award.

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Ahmet Şık

First Name Ahmet
Last Name Şık
Born in Adana Province

Ahmet Şık is a Turkish investigative journalist, the author of several books, a trade unionist, and member of Parliament in Turkey. His book, The Imam's Army, investigating the controversial Gülen movement of the Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen, led to his detention for a year in 2011–2012 and the book's being seized and banned. He was under indictment in the OdaTV case of the Ergenekon trials; his cause has been taken up by English PEN, an association of writers fighting for freedom of expression. In 2016, the prosecutor in this case requested Şık's acquittal. On 29 December 2016, Şık was taken into custody once again on charges of "propaganda of terrorist organisations", with reference to 11 tweets that he had published. The following day, an Istanbul judge ordered Ahmet's arrest. According to lawyers, Şık was denied access to legal advice, held in solitary confinement, and not given drinking water for three days.

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Ferdi Tayfur

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First Name Ferdi
Born on November 15, 1945 (age 78)
Born in Adana Province

Ferdi Tayfur is a Turkish arabesque singer, actor and composer. He was born in Hurriyet neighbourhood of Adana, Turkey and he has led a successful career in arabesque music. The artist, who has earned nine golden certifications in total, is renowned for his songs, which he has included in motion pictures as well. In the Turkish media, he is commonly known as "Ferdi Baba". Having released more than 30 albums and over 30 films, he founded Ferdifon Records in 1982 and also entered the construction sector in 2009.

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Figen Yüksekdağ

First Name Figen
Born on December 19, 1971 (age 52)
Born in Adana Province

Figen Yüksekdağ Şenoğlu is a Turkish politician and journalist, who was a former co-leader of the left-wing Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) of Turkey from 2014 to 2017, serving alongside Selahattin Demirtaş. She was a Member of Parliament for Van since the June 2015 general election until her parliamentary membership was revoked by the courts on 21 February 2017. Her party membership and therefore her co-leadership position were revoked by the courts on 9 March 2017 following a six-year prison sentence for allegedly distributing terrorist propaganda.

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İrfan Can Eğribayat

First Name İrfan
Born on June 30, 1998 (age 26)
Born in Adana Province

İrfan Can Eğribayat, is a Turkish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Göztepe.

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Caner Cindoruk

First Name Caner
Last Name Cindoruk
Born on January 1, 1980 (age 44)
Born in Adana Province

Caner Cindoruk is a Turkish theater, cinema, and television actor.

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Duran Kalkan

First Name Duran
Last Name Kalkan
Born on August 14, 1954 (age 70)
Born in Adana Province

Duran Kalkan, also known as Selahattin Abbas, or Selahattin Erdem is a senior commander of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

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Ömer Çelik

First Name Ömer
Last Name Çelik
Born on June 15, 1968 (age 56)
Born in Adana Province

Ömer Çelik is a Turkish journalist and politician. Between January 24, 2013 and August 28, 2015, he served as Minister of Culture and Tourism. He served as the Minister of European Union Affairs and as the Chief Negotiator for Turkish Accession to the European Union between 2016–2018.

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