Eyüp Yeşilyurt Serveti

The following is a list of notable Turkish Germans. This includes people of full or partial ethnic Turkish origin born in Germany, as well as ethnic Turkish immigrants who have arrived in Germany either from the Seljuk and Ottoman territories or from post-Ottoman modern nation-states (especially from the Republic of Turkey, but also from the Balkans, Cyprus, as well as other parts of the Levant and North Africa).

Most notable Turkish Germans originate from the Republic of Turkey; however, there are also notable Germans of ethnic Turkish origin who came from Seljuk Anatolia (e.g. Sadok Seli Soltan&#;[de]) and the Ottoman Empire (e.g. Friedrich Aly&#;[de],^[1][2]Fatima Kariman^[3] and Mehmet von Königstreu&#;[de]^[4]). In addition, there are notable ethnic Turks who come from other post-Ottoman modern nation-states, especially from the Balkans (e.g. Ozan Güven,^[5]Filiz Osmanodja,^[6]Erol Sabanov,^[7] and Kemal Kurt^[8] are of Turkish Bulgarian origin; Hüdai Ülker is of Turkish Macedonian^[8] origin; Ateed and Cemile Giousouf are of Turkish Western Thracian origin), the island of Cyprus (e.g. Turgay Hilmi,^[9] Atesh Salih, and Rüya Taner^[10] are of Turkish Cypriot origin), the Levant (e.g. Yasemin Mansoor&#;[de] is of Turkish Iraqi origin;^[11]Burak Karan&#;[de] is of Turkish Syrian origin; and Bilal Aziz Özer is of Turkish Lebanese origin), etc.

This list is arranged alphabetically by surname following the Turkish alphabet arrangement. Notable ethnic Turks who originate from outside the modern borders of Turkey (i.e. from the Balkans, Cyprus, the Levant, etc.) are listed with their origin. Furthermore, individuals who are of partial Turkish origin are listed with their dual identity.

Academia and medicine[edit]

• Mustafa Acar&#;[de], political scientist; co-founder of the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights
• Gülşen Aktaş, educator
• Ian F. Akyildiz, Chair Professor in Telecommunications
• Şahin Albayrak&#;[de], Professor of Computer Science at the Technical University of Berlin
• Anil Al-Rebholz&#;[de], sociologist; Professor at the University of Frankfurt am Main
• Götz Aly, journalist, historian and political scientist
• Yaşar Aydın&#;[de], social scientist; lecturer at the HafenCity University Hamburg
• Mehmet Kudret Ayiter&#;[de], legal scholar and founding member of Dokuz Eylül University
• Ülkü Azrak, Professor of Political Sciences
• Yaşar Bilgin, doctor and politician; co-founder and chairman of the Turkish-German Health Foundation
• Ümit Bir&#;[de], doctor and art collector (Turkish father and German mother)
• Rauf Ceylan, Professor of Sociology of Religion and of Migration at the University of Osnabrück
• Dr. Elif Duygu Cindik-Herbrueggen&#;[tr], psychiatrist
• Metin Colpan&#;[de], co-founder of Qiagen
• Altay Coşkun&#;[de], Associate Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Waterloo
• Hasan Çil&#;[de], sociologist
• Gazi Çağlar&#;[de], political scientist
• Ahmet Çakır (ergonomist)&#;[de], ergonomist; editor-in-chief of the scientific journal Behaviour & Information Technology
• Hıdır Eren Çelik&#;[de], teaches at the University of Cologne
• Ahmet Doğan&#;[de], founder of the Ararat-Verlag publishing house
• Havva Engin&#;[de], linguist and educational scientist
• Kazım Erdoğan&#;[de], psychologist and sociologist
• Semra Eren-Nijhar, sociologist^[12]
• Erol Erman&#;[de], architect
• İlhan Ilkılıç&#;[de], doctor and philosopher
• Hüseyin Ince&#;[de], Professor of Cardiology
• Mustafa Kizilcay&#;[de], Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Siegen
• A. Kubilay Ertan&#;[de], physician
• Deniz Göktürk&#;[de], Germanist (Turkish father and German mother)
• Alexander Görlach, senior research associate at Cambridge University
• Zümrüt Gülbay-Peischard&#;[de], Professor of Business Law at the Berlin School of Economics and Law
• Onur Güntürkün, Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience at Ruhr University Bochum
• Dilek Gürsoy, heart surgeon; the first female surgeon in Europe to implant an artificial heart
• Osman Isfen&#;[de], Professor of Law at the University of Hagen
• Zehra İpşiroğlu&#;[de], Professor of Turkish Literature at the University of Duisburg-Essen ()
• Ismail Kanay&#;[de], philosopher and internist
• Yasemin Karakaşoğlu&#;[de], Turkologist; Vice President for Internationality and Diversity at the University of Bremen (–17)
• Necla Kelek, feminist and social scientist
• Recep Keskin&#;[de], Professor of Architecture and Civil Engineering at the Anhalt University of Applied Sciences
• Caghan Kizil, neuroscientist and geneticist
• Esra Küçük&#;[de], social scientist; managing director of Allianz Kulturstiftung (Turkish father and Macedonian mother)
• Elçin Kürşat-Ahlers&#;[de], sociologist; Professor at Leibniz Universität Hannover
• Enise Lauterbach&#;[de], cardiologist
• Rasim Marz&#;[de], historian and expert on the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey
• Murat Mola&#;[de], Professor of Engineering at the Institute for Mechanical Engineering / Materials Science at the Ruhr West University of Applied Sciences
• Aylâ Neusel&#;[de], Vice President of the University of Kassel (–90)
• Arif Babür Ordu&#;[de], doctor and former politician
• Cem Özgönül&#;[de], historian
• Harun Parlar&#;[de], chemist
• Asaf Pekdeğer&#;[de], geoscientists and Professor of Hydrogeology at the Free University of Berlin
• Sanih Savdir&#;[de], dentist; awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit in
• Ziya Saylan, former president of the European Academy of Cosmetic Surgery
• Yücel Sivri&#;[de], Germanist, ancient historian, writer and translator
• Uğur Şahin, Professor of Experimental Oncology at the University of Mainz; co-founder of BioNTech which developed the first approved messenger RNA-based vaccine against COVID
• Faruk Şen&#;[de], former director of the Stiftung für Türkeistudien und Integrationsforschung and professor at the University of Essen
• Sargut Şölçün&#;[de], literary scholar
• Erman Tanyıldız&#;[de], founder of SRH Berlin University of Applied Sciences
• Sabriye Tenberken, tibetologist and co-founder of the organisation Braille Without Borders
• Semih Tezcan, Turkologist
• Metin Tolan&#;[de], Professor of Experimental Physics at the Technical University of Dortmund
• Sefaattin Tongay, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Arizona State University
• Ahmet Toprak&#;[de], Professor of Educational Sciences at Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts
• Erdal Toprakyaran&#;[de], director of the Zentrum für Islamische Theologie (Universität Tübingen) at the University of Tübingen
• Özlem Türeci, physician and scientist; Privatdozentin at Johannes Gutenberg University; co-founder of BioNTech which developed the first approved messenger RNA-based vaccine against COVID
• Ali Uçar&#;[de], political scientist
• Bülent Uçar&#;[de], Professor of Islamic Studies at the Osnabrück University
• Hacı-Halil Uslucan&#;[de], psychologist; head of the Foundation Center for Turkish Studies and Integration Research
• Yasemin Utku&#;[de], Professor for Urban Development and Planning Practice at the Technical University of Cologne
• Recep Ümit Uygun&#;[de], doctor; he received the Order of Merit of Berlin in
• Altuğ Ünlü&#;[de], Professor of Music Theory at the Robert Schumann Hochschule
• Bânu Yalkut-Breddermann&#;[de], ethnologist
• Ali Yarayan&#;[de], Professor and Director of the Research Center for Turkish Law at the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg
• Ümit Yazıcıoğlu&#;[de], political scientist
• Karin Yeşilada&#;[de], Germanist and literary critic (Turkish father and German mother)
• Aysel Yollu-Tok&#;[de], economist and sociologist; director of Harriet Taylor Mill Institute for Economics and Gender Studies at the Berlin School of Economics and Law
• Mukadder Seyhan Yücel&#;[de], Professor of German at Trakya University

Arts and literature[edit]

• İhsan Acar&#;[de], author
• Ayşegül Acevit&#;[de], journalist
• Can Açıkgöz&#;[de], audio book speaker
• Fitnat Ahrens&#;[de], writer
• Melda Akbaş&#;[de], author
• Selda Akhan&#;[de], theater director
• Doğan Akhanlı, historical novelist
• Hatice Aksoy-Woinek&#;[de], author
• Levent Aktoprak&#;[de], writer, radio and television journalist
• Hatice Akyün&#;[de], journalist and writer
• Nevin Aladağ&#;[de], installation and performance artist
• Iris Alanyalı&#;[de], journalist and writer
• Hakan Albayrak, journalist and activist
• Fatma Altinok&#;[de], author and migration policy expert
• Ayşe Arman, journalist and columnist (Turkish father and a German mother)^[13]
• Ali Arslan&#;[de], writer
• Zeki Arslan&#;[de], artist and painter
• Mevlüt Asar&#;[de], writer and poet
• Ferda Ataman &#;[de], journalist
• İlhan Atasoy&#;[de], cabaret artist, satirist and performing artist
• Fatma Aydemir, author and journalist
• İmran Ayata &#;[de], author and campaigner; co-founder of Kanak Attak
• Attila Murat Aydın&#;[de], graffiti artist, breakdancer, and beatboxer
• Semiramis Aydınlık&#;[de], cartoonist and satirist
• Esmahan Aykol, novelist (Turkish Macedonian/Turkish Bulgarian father and Turkish mother)
• Alparslan Babaoglu-Marx&#;[de], cabaret artist, book author, and integration activist
• Melek Baklan&#;[de], author and social worker
• Vehbi Bardakçı&#;[de], author
• Deniz Baspınar&#;[de], journalist and author
• Özdemir Başargan&#;[de], writer
• Fakir Baykurt, author and trade unionist
• Murad Bayraktar&#;[de], journalist and editor
• Habib Bektaş, writer
• Muammer Bilge&#;[de], writer
• Şakir Bilgin, writer
• Birand Bingül&#;[de], journalist
• Hayati Boyacıoğlu&#;[de], cartoonist, playwright and journalist
• Fuat Bultan&#;[de], journalist and radio presenter
• Metin Buz&#;[de], author
• İnci Bürhaniye, co-founder of Binooki Verlag^[14]
• Canan Büyrü&#;[de], journalist
• Ayhan Can&#;[de], poet
• Canan and Handan Can&#;[de], early authors on the “Literature of Migrants” in Germany
• Mustafa Cebe&#;[de], children's book author
• Selma Ceylan&#;[de], author
• Emell Gök Che&#;[de], interior designer
• Hasan Cobanli&#;[de], journalist, author and pilot
• Nevfel Cumart, writer, speaker, literary translator and journalist
• Sabri Çakır, poet
• Ninel Çam&#;[de], choreographer and interdisciplinary performance artist
• Oğuzhan Çelik&#;[de], journalist
• Aygen-Sibel Çelik&#;[de], author of children's and youth literature
• Zehra Çırak, poet
• Ismail Çoban&#;[de], painter and graphic artist
• Günfer Çölgeçen&#;[de], writer and theatre actress
• Yıldırım Dağyeli&#;[de], publisher and literary translator; founder of the Dağyeli Verlag publishing house
• Güney Dal, writer
• Timuçin Davras&#;[de], poet
• Gülten Dayıoğlu&#;[de], author of children's and youth literature
• Adil Demirci, journalist
• Fatih Demireli&#;[de], journalist
• Ahmet Demirhan&#;[de], architect
• Tunç Denizer&#;[de], theater director, cabaret artist, and author
• Birol Denizeri&#;[de], author
• Süleyman Deveci&#;[de], journalist and author
• Fikret Doğan&#;[de], journalist, translator and author
• Hülya Doğan-Netenjakob&#;[de], theater director
• Cengiz Doğu, poet and activist
• Betül Durmaz&#;[de], author
• Özlem Özgül Dündar&#;[de], author and translator
• Tarek Dzinaj&#;[de], writer and doctor
• Ihsan Ece&#;[de], painter and object artist
• Gültekin Emre&#;[de], poet and translator from Russian into Turkish
• Hülya Engin&#;[de], literary translator
• Osman Engin&#;[de], satirist
• Erdoğan Ercivan&#;[de], writer
• Ismail Erel&#;[de], journalist
• Özgen Ergin&#;[de], author and social worker
• İsmet Ergün, painter and stage designer
• Aslı Erdoğan, writer and author
• Nurkan Erpulat&#;[de], theater director and author
• Aysun Ertan&#;[de], author and journalist
• Semra Ertan, writer and activist
• Aytaç Eryılmaz&#;[de], author; managing board member of the Documentation Center and Museum about Migration in Germany
• Ömer Erzeren&#;[de], author and journalist
• Metin Fakıoğlu&#;[de], journalist and poet
• Yücel Feyzioğlu&#;[de], children's book author
• Mehmet Fıstık&#;[de], mime artist, director and theater teacher
• Bahattin Gemici&#;[de], writer
• Iskender Gider&#;[de], artist
• Özlem Gezer&#;[de], journalist
• Dilaver Gök&#;[de], co-founder and board member of the à la turca theater
• Cem Gülay&#;[de], author
• Ali Duran Gülçiçek&#;[de], author
• Mehmet Güler&#;[de], painter
• Suzan Gülfirat&#;[de], journalist and publicist
• Kübra Gümüşay&#;[de], journalist, blogger, and activist
• Cihangir Gümüştürkmen&#;[de], painter, sculptor, writer, and comedian
• Ümit Güney&#;[de], editor and literary translator; co-founder of Buntbuch-Verlag publishing house
• Baha Güngör&#;[de], journalist; former head of the Turkish-language editorial team at Deutsche Welle
• Dilek Güngör&#;[de], journalist
• Metin Gür&#;[de], journalist, publicist, and non-fiction author
• Tatjana Gürbaca, opera director (Turkish father and Italian mother)^[15]
• Lütfiye Güzel&#;[de], author and poet
• Murat Ham&#;[de], journalist
• Mete İzgi&#;[de], writer and playwright
• Osman Kalin, built the Baumhaus an der Mauer in Berlin
• Celal Kandemiroglu, graphic artist
• Yadé Kara, writer
• Murat Karaaslan&#;[de], writer
• Immo Karaman&#;[de], theater director
• Suzan Emine Kaube, writer, painter and pedagogue
• Nazmi Kavasoğlu&#;[de], writer and publicist
• Ibrahim Kaya&#;[de], writer
• Murat Kaya, comics author
• Nihat Kesen&#;[de], comic artist
• Sanem Kleff&#;[de], non-fiction author
• Ali Köken&#;[de], puppeteer; master of Karagöz and Hacivat
• Azade Köker&#;[de], sculptor and painter
• Kemal Kurt, author, translator and photographer (Turkish Bulgarian origin)^[8]
• Şeyda Kurt&#;[de]
• Gülbahar Kültür&#;[de], writer
• Nuray Lale, writer
• Şermin Langhoff, director of the Maxim Gorki Theater^[16]
• Betül Licht&#;[de], author and alternative practitioner in psychotherapy
• Souad Mekhennet, journalist (Turkish mother and Moroccan father)
• Kadir Memiş&#;[de], dancer and choreographer
• Can Merey&#;[de], journalist (Turkish father and a German mother)
• Avni Odabaşı&#;[de], cartoonist
• Deniz Ohde&#;[de], writer
• Muhsin Omurca&#;[de], cartoonist and founder of Kabarett Knobi-Bonbon
• Aras Ören, writer
• Celal Özcan&#;[de], journalist and author
• Emine Sevgi Özdamar, dramatist and playwright
• A. Kadir Özdemir&#;[de], writer
• Hasan Özdemir (poet)&#;[de], poet
• Selim Özdoğan&#;[de], writer
• Tuncay Özer&#;[de], poet and literary translator
• Kayhan Özgenç&#;[de], journalist and deputy editor-in-chief of Business Insider
• Gönül Özgül&#;[de], author
• Hülya Özkan&#;[de], crime writer
• Sami Özkara&#;[de], novelist and non-fiction writer
• Ertuğrul Özkök, journalist
• Acem Özler&#;[de], author and translator
• Serpil Pak&#;[de], cabaret artist
• Kerim Pamuk&#;[de], writer and cabaret artist
• Sedat Pamuk&#;[de], cabaret artist
• Yüksel Pazarkaya, writer and translator
• Akif Pirinçci, writer
• Filiz Penzkofer&#;[de], author, journalist, and theater pedagogue
• Serap Riedel&#;[de], painter
• Alpan Sagsöz&#;[de], novelist
• Şener Saltürk&#;[de], author
• Zadiel Sasmaz&#;[de], dancer
• Fethi Savaşçı&#;[de], writer
• Saliha Scheinhardt, writer
• Tülay Sözbir-Seidel&#;[de],
• Deniz Selek&#;[de], writer
• Evrim Sen&#;[de], author
• Gök Senin&#;[de], journalist and author
• Tamer Serbay&#;[de], visual artist
• Aslı Sevindim&#;[de], journalist, radio presenter and writer
• Mehmet Ilhami Sezen&#;[de], artist and author
• Murad Sezer, photographer
• Hilal Sezgin&#;[de], writer, publicist and journalist (Turkish father and German mother)
• Zuhal Soyhan&#;[de], journalist
• Necmi Sönmez, curator, art critic and writer
• Nedim Sönmez&#;[de], artist
• Tekin Sönmez&#;[de], writer and publicist
• Asli Sungu, performance artist and painter
• Sefa İnci Suvak&#;[de], journalist, author, and editor
• Necati Şahin&#;[de], theater director; founder of Arkadaş Theater
• Cemil Şahinöz&#;[de], editor-in-chief of the magazine "Ayasofya"
• Nedim Şener, writer and journalist
• Zafer Şenocak, writer, translator, and poet
• Semiya Şimşek&#;[de], author; winner of the Olympe-de-Gouges-Preis in
• Leyla Taşdelen&#;[de], poet
• Nilgün Taşman&#;[de], writer and theater director
• Kamil Taylan&#;[de], journalist and crime writer
• Mehmet Tekerek&#;[de], author
• Sibel Susann Teoman&#;[de], writer (Turkish mother and German father)
• Ergün Tepecik&#;[de], writer, theater director and satirist
• Arzu Toker, writer, journalist, publicist and translator
• Dergin Tokmak&#;[de], dancer and acrobat
• Canan Topçu, writer
• Özlem Topçu&#;[de], journalist
• Bülent Tulay&#;[de]
• Enver Tuncer&#;[de], journalist and radio presenter
• Murat Türemiş&#;[de], photojournalist
• Özgür Uludağ&#;[de], journalist
• Şadi Üçüncü, writer
• Meray Ülgen&#;[de], theater director and cartoonist
• Hüdai Ülker, writer (Turkish Macedonian origin)^[8]
• Halit Ünal&#;[de], writer
• Mehmet Ünal&#;[de], journalist and photographer
• Selma Wels, co-founder of Binooki Verlag^[14]
• Atilla Yakut&#;[de], non-fiction author
• Kemal Yalçın&#;[de], writer
• Nevzat Yalçın&#;[de], writer (Turkish Cypriot origin)
• Murat Yeginer&#;[de], theatre actor and theatre director
• Vehbi Can Yesil&#;[de], artistic performer and dancer
• Karin Yeşilada&#;[de], literary critic
• Erol Yıldırım&#;[de], writer
• Reyhan Yıldırım&#;[de], comic artist and comic author
• Bahar Yilmaz, author
• Ethem Yilmaz&#;[de], author, interpreter, editor and publisher
• Ali Yumuşak&#;[de], journalist and book author
• Telat Yurtsever&#;[de], theater director
• Deniz Yücel, journalist and publisher
• Feridun Zaimoğlu, author and visual artist
• Dilek Zaptçıoğlu&#;[de], journalist
• Zaya (dancer)&#;[de], dancer and choreographer

"Booty Turks" (Beutetürken) and descendants[edit]

• Friedrich Aly&#;[de] (Haydar Ali) (ca. /74 - ), Ottoman soldier and kammertürke ("chamber Turk") at the court of Elector Frederick I of Prussia^[1][2][17]
• Joseph Borgk (Yusuf), converted to Christianity and became a Lutheran pastor in a village near Windsheim^[18]
• Augusta Marianna Cölestine Fatme (Fatma) (–), daughter of an Ottoman pasha; married to Count Friedrich Magnus zu Castell-Remlingen^[18]
• Friedrich Wilhelm Hassan, kammertürke ("chamber Turk") of Sophia Charlotte of Hanover^[2]
• Hammet and Hasan&#;[de], captured off Vienna in and served as "Chamber Turks" for Sophia of Hanover; their graves are the oldest surviving Islamic tombs in Germany dating to
• Sophia Wilhelmina Kayserin&#;[de] (born Rabi or Rabia) (), spent her life at the Electoral Saxon court and then as a Protestant pastor's wife^[19]
• Ludwig Maximilian Mehmet von Königstreu&#;[de] (ca), Ottoman Turk captured in and converted to Christianity^[4]
• Ernst August Mustafa (), valet of Elector Georg Ludwig^[20]
• Sadok Seli Soltan&#;[de] (Mehmet Sadık Selim Sultan) (ca), believed to be the first documented Turkish German; he was baptized Christian in ^[21]
  • descendants:
  • Catharina Elisabeth Goethe (), writer^[22]
    • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (), poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, critic, and amateur artist^[23][24][25]
    • Cornelia Schlosser, was an Scribe and the only sibling of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    • August von Goethe, served in the court of Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
    • Walther von Goethe, composer and court chamberlain and the last living descendant of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Carl Soldan (–), pharmacist who founded the confectionery company "Dr. C. Soldan&#;[de]".^[26]
  • Hans Soldan&#;[de] (), lawyer^[27]
  • Heinrich Soldan, former mayor of Frankenberg^[22][28]
  • Johann Soldan, former mayor of Frankenberg^[28]
  • Philipp Soldan&#;[de] (–69), Gothic stonemason, wood carver, builder and painter^[29]
• Maria Aurora von Spiegel (Fatima Kariman) (born before ; died after ), Ottoman Turkish mistress of Augustus II the Strong^[3]
• Johann Ernst Nicolauß Strauss (Mehmet Sadullah Pascha), opened one of the first coffee houses in Germany in in Würzburg; he was baptized on June 24, ^[31]

Business[edit]