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Tanya S. Chutkan
Tanya Sue Chutkan is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
Necmettin Erbakan
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.
Tarık Akan
Tarık Akan was a Turkish film actor and producer, who started his activity in the 1970s.
Naoto Kan
Naoto Kan is a Japanese politician who was Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) from June 2010 to September 2011. Kan was the first Prime Minister since the resignation of Junichiro Koizumi in 2006 to serve for more than one year, with his predecessors Yukio Hatoyama, Tarō Asō, Yasuo Fukuda, and Shinzō Abe either resigning prematurely or losing an election. On 26 August 2011, Kan announced his resignation. Yoshihiko Noda was elected as his successor. On 1 August 2012, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced Kan would be one of the members of the UN high-level panel on the post-2015 development agenda.
Ajda Pekkan
Ayşe Ajda Pekkan is a Turkish singer. She is known by the titles "Superstar" in the Turkish media. Pekkan became a prominent figure of Turkish pop music with her songs, in which she tried to create a strong female figure. By keeping her works updated and getting influence from Western elements, she managed to become one of Turkey's modern and enduring icons in different periods. Her musical style has kept her popular for more than 50 years and has inspired many of her successors. Pekkan is highly respected in the music industry and her vocal techniques together with many of her albums were praised by music critics.
Mohamed Simakan
Mohamed Simakan is a French professional footballer who plays as a defender for Bundesliga club RB Leipzig.
Tarkan
Tarkan Tevetoğlu is a Turkish singer-songwriter. Since the early 1990s, with the successful sales of his albums, he has been a prominent figure of the Turkish pop music, being known in Turkey, Europe and West Asia.
Fatih Erbakan
Muhammed Ali Fatih Erbakan is a Turkish politician and the member of the board of the general administration of the Felicity Party. The Felicity Party was founded by his father, Necmettin Erbakan, who was the prime minister of the Republic of Turkey from 1996 to 1997. He is the president of New Welfare Party. YRP is the successor of Welfare Party and it has the exact same ideology.
Jenny Durkan
Jenny Anne Durkan is an American attorney and politician serving as mayor of Seattle. She is the daughter of Martin Durkan, who was once considered one of the most powerful politicians in Washington state; like him, she is a member of the Democratic Party. After earning her J.D. degree from University of Washington School of Law in 1985, Durkan began practicing law as a prosecutor, and had many prominent cases both on behalf of the government and for private parties. During this time she also worked for many nonprofits and advocacy groups, and was briefly Governor Mike Lowry's chief lawyer. In October 2009, President Barack Obama appointed her United States Attorney for the Western District of Washington. She held that position until September 2014.
Gökhan Alkan
Gökhan Alkan is a Turkish actor. He is multi-faceted in various fields and is trained in solfège, singing and is professionally engaged in acting, sports, voice acting, poetry and lyricism.
Murat Göğebakan
Murat Göğebakan, was a Turkish singer.
Renan Demirkan
Renan Demirkan is a Turkish–German writer and actress.
Ōta Dōkan
Ōta Dōkan , also known as Ōta Sukenaga or Ōta Dōkan Sukenaga, was a Japanese samurai warrior-poet, military tactician and Buddhist monk. Ōta Sukenaga took the tonsure as a Buddhist priest in 1478, and he also adopted the Buddhist name, Dōkan, by which he is known today. Dōkan is best known as the architect and builder of Edo Castle in what is today modern Tokyo; and he is considered the founder of the castle town which grew up around that Ōnin era fortress.
Alain Kan
Alain Kan is a French singer.
Ahmet Hakan
Ahmet Hakan Coşkun is a Turkish columnist, currently working at Hürriyet, CNN Türk and Kanal D. He studied at Bursa Religious High School and then Bursa Divinity Faculty. He used to be anchor-man for the television channel Kanal 7 founded by Necmettin Erbakan the founder/leader of Welfare Party. He was appointed editor of Hürriyet in 2019.
Duran Kalkan
Duran Kalkan, also known as Selahattin Abbas, or Selahattin Erdem is a senior commander of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
Firas Al-Buraikan
Firas Al-Buraikan is a Saudi Arabian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Pro League side Al-Fateh.
Seda Bakan
Seda Bakan is a Turkish actress. Her maternal family, who are of Turkish origin, emigrated from Thessaloniki, Greece. Her paternal family is of Bosnian origin who emigrated from Sarajevo. She is best known for comedy roles and as Eda in Behzat Ç. crime series, as Feyza in Kardeş Payı comedy series.
Ady Barkan
Ady Barkan is an American lawyer and liberal activist. He is a co-founder of the Be a Hero PAC and is an organizer for the Center for Popular Democracy, where he led the Fed Up campaign. Barkan confronted Senator Jeff Flake on a plane in 2017, asking him to "be a hero" and vote no on a tax bill.
Banu Alkan
Banu Alkan is a Turkish-Croatian actress. She moved to Edremit, Balıkesir, Turkey in 1966 when she was 8. She is described as an "80s pop culture icon of Turkey". Her first film appearance was in the 1976 film Taksi Şoförü directed by Şerif Gören.
Gaffar Okkan
Ali Gaffar Okkan was a Turkish police chief who was assassinated in an ambush in Diyarbakır, southeastern Turkey.
Vinayakan
Vinayakan TK better known as Vinayakan is an Indian film actor and music composer who predominantly works in the Malayalam Film Industry. Apart, he also works in Tamil, Telugu and Bollywood films. He started his career with a cameo appearance in Thampi Kannanthanam's 1997 film Maanthrikam.Later, he did a couple of films as supporting roles as well as comedian roles respectively.In 2016, Vinayakan won the Kerala State Film Award for Best Actor for his performance of Ganga in Rajiv Ravi's Kammatipaadam and also well appreciated by the critics. He also composed a song for the film.
James Tolkan
James Stewart Tolkan is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Mr. Strickland in Back to the Future (1985), Back to the Future Part II (1989), and Back to the Future Part III (1990). Some of his other memorable film roles were in Love and Death (1975), Top Gun (1986), Masters of the Universe (1987) and Dick Tracy (1990).
Cahit Özkan
Cahit Özkan is a Turkish politician and member of Turkish Parliament. He is also Deputy for Denizili and a member of the Justice and Development Party.
Tarek Alarabi Tarkan
Tarek Alarabi Tourgane is a Syrian composer and singer of Algerian descent, best known for composing the theme songs for animated series in the Arab world.
Joseph Vadakkan
Fr. Joseph Vadakkan was a Christian activist priest of Kerala in India, and the founder of the political party known as Karshaka Thozhilali Party (KTP). Vadakkan organised many agitations and took part in protest marches, satyagrahas, and rallies. He was also arrested and jailed. He was reprimanded by his own Church.
Fikret Kuşkan
Mehmet Fikret Kuşkan is a Turkish actor.
Celil Nalçakan
Celil Nalçakan is a Turkish actor.
Nezihe Kalkan
Nezihe Kalkan, better known as Nez, is a Turkish singer and dancer known for her modern-oriental hybrid dancing style combined with techno-inspired pop music.
Ebru Özkan
Ebru Özkan is a Turkish actress.