List of Famous people born in Ankara Province
Tansu Biçer
Tansu Biçer is a Turkish actor.
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Atagün Yalçınkaya
Atagün Yalçınkaya is a Turkish boxer in the bantamweight (54 kg) division best known for winning the silver medal in the light-flyweight category at the 2004 Olympics.
Arda Güler
Arda Güler is a Turkish association footballer who plays for Süper Lig club Fenerbahçe S.K..
Ömer Özkan
Ömer Özkan is a Turkish plastic surgeon. An associate professor at the Akdeniz University in Antalya, he led the team that performed in 2012 the first full face transplant in Turkey.
Levent Kazak
Levent Kazak is a Turkish screenwriter and actor.
Cengiz Çandar
Cengiz Çandar is a Turkish journalist, senior columnist, and a Middle East expert. He is the author of bestseller Mezopotamya Ekspresi- Bir Tarih Yolculugu (2012), which has been translated into various languages, including Kurdish (Sorani) and Arabic.
Osman Faruk Loğoğlu
Osman Faruk Loğoğlu is a Turkish diplomat and the former Turkish ambassador to the United States of America, having served from 2001 to 2005.
Mustafa Akyol
Mustafa Akyol is a Turkish writer and journalist. He is the author of Islam without Extremes: A Muslim Case for Liberty, long-listed in 2012 for the Lionel Gelber Prize, a literary award for the world's best non-fiction book in English. He became a contributing opinion writer for the International New York Times in 2013. He is mainly famous in the western world for his arguments that Islam is highly compatible with classical liberalism and Enlightenment values, and that Islamic practice and the governance of Muslim-majority countries should be reformed along those lines similar to what previously happened in Christian-majority Europe.
Asaf Savaş Akat
Professor Asaf Savaş Akat is a Turkish economist and academic. He served as Rector of Istanbul Bilgi University from 1996 to 1998, where he remains a Professor.