List of Famous people named Ahmet
Ahmet Burak Erdoğan
Ahmet Burak Erdoğan is a Turkish businessman, the owner of MB Denizcilik, and the eldest son of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the President of Turkey.
Ahmet Davutoğlu
Ahmet Davutoğlu is a Turkish academic, politician and former diplomat who served as the 26th Prime Minister of Turkey and Leader of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) from 2014 to 2016. He previously served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2009 to 2014 and chief advisor to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan from 2003 to 2009. He was elected as an AKP Member of Parliament for Konya in the 2011 general election and was reelected as an MP in both the June and November 2015 general elections. He resigned as Prime Minister on 22 May 2016.
Ahmet Necdet Sezer
Ahmet Necdet Sezer is a Turkish statesman and judge who was the tenth president of Turkey, serving from 2000 to 2007. Previously he was the president of the Constitutional Court of Turkey from 1998 to 2000. The Grand National Assembly of Turkey elected Sezer as president in 2000 after Süleyman Demirel's seven-year term expired. He was succeeded by Abdullah Gül in 2007.
Ahmet Zappa
Ahmet Emuukha Rodan Zappa is an American musician and writer, and trustee of the Zappa Family Trust.
Ahmet Mahmut Ünlü
Ahmet Mahmut Ünlü, known professionally as Cübbeli Ahmet Hoca, is a Turkish imam and hafiz. He is a murid of Mahmut Ustaosmanoğlu in İsmailağa. His controversial views are often reported by the Turkish press.
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar was a Turkish poet, novelist, literary scholar and essayist, widely regarded as one of the most important representatives of modernism in Turkish literature. In addition to his literary and academic career, Tanpınar was also a member of the Turkish Parliament between 1944 and 1946.
Ahmet Şık
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.
Ahmet Kural
Ahmet Kural is a Turkish actor.
Ahmet Ümit
Ahmet Ümit is a Turkish author and poet. He is best known for his crime novels.
Ahmet Nur Çebi
Ahmet Nur Çebi is a Turkish businessman and current club president of Turkish multi-disciplined sports club Beşiktaş J.K..