List of Famous people born in Sinop Province

Necmettin Erbakan

First Name Necmettin
Born on October 29, 1926
Died on February 27, 2011 (aged 84)
Born in Sinop Province

Necmettin Erbakan was a Turkish politician, engineer, and academic who was the Prime Minister of Turkey from 1996 to 1997. He was pressured by the military to step down as prime minister and was later banned from politics by the Constitutional Court of Turkey for violating the separation of religion and state as mandated by the constitution.

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Diogenes of Sinope

First Name Diogenes
Last Name Sinope
Died on January 1, -0322
Born in Sinop Province

Diogenes, also known as Diogenes the Cynic, was a Greek philosopher and one of the founders of Cynic philosophy. He was born in Sinope, an Ionian colony on the Black Sea coast of modern-day Turkey, in 412 or 404 BC and died at Corinth in 323 BC.

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Mithridates VI of Pontus

First Name Mithridates
Last Name Pontus
Died on January 1, -0063
Born in Sinop Province

Mithridates or Mithradates VI Eupator was ruler of the Kingdom of Pontus in northern Anatolia from 120 to 63 BC, and one of the Roman Republic's most formidable and determined opponents. He was an effective, ambitious and ruthless ruler who sought to dominate Asia Minor and the Black Sea region, waging several hard-fought but ultimately unsuccessful wars to break Roman dominion over Asia and the Hellenic world. He has been called the greatest ruler of the Kingdom of Pontus. He cultivated an immunity to poisons by regularly ingesting sub-lethal doses; this practice, now called mithridatism, is named after him. After his death he became known as Mithridates the Great.

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Osman Pamukoğlu

First Name Osman
Last Name Pamukoğlu
Born on December 27, 1947 (age 76)
Born in Sinop Province

Osman Pamukoğlu is a retired major general of the Turkish Army, author and politician who founded the Rights and Equality Party on September 4, 2008 in remembrance of the Congress of Sivas.

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Gökçe Akyıldız

First Name Gökçe
Last Name Akyıldız
Born on October 30, 1992 (age 32)
Born in Sinop Province

Gökçe Akyıldız is a Turkish actress.

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Rıza Nur

First Name Rıza
Last Name Nur
Born on August 30, 1879
Died on September 8, 1942 (aged 63)
Born in Sinop Province

Rıza Nur was a Turkish surgeon, politician and writer. He was prominent in the years immediately after the First World War, where he served as a cabinet minister but was subsequently marginalised, and became a critic of the new regime.

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Ahmet Şimşirgil

First Name Ahmet
Last Name Şimşirgil
Born on May 25, 1959 (age 65)
Born in Sinop Province
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Beste Kökdemir

First Name Beste
Born on August 29, 1993 (age 31)
Born in Sinop Province

Beste Kökdemir is a Turkish actress.

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Ercan Yazgan

First Name Ercan
Last Name Yazgan
Born on April 4, 1946
Died on March 8, 2018 (aged 71)
Born in Sinop Province

Ercan Yazgan was a Turkish comedian and political satirist. He was widely regarded as one of Turkey's most prominent and respected comedians. He starred in numerous movies and various TV-series. He died on 8 March 2018, at the age of 72 from multiple organ failure.

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Hasan Kemal Özdemir

First Name Hasan
Last Name Özdemir
Born on February 9, 1964 (age 60)
Born in Sinop Province

Hasan Kemal Özdemir is a retired Turkish football defender. He was capped three times for Turkey, and was also a squad member at the 1983 Mediterranean Games.

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