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List of Bulgarian Turks

List of Bulgarian Turks

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This is a list of notable Turkish Bulgarians who were born in Bulgaria (during the Ottoman or post-Ottoman periods) as well as people of full or partial Turkish Bulgarian origin. In addition to notable Bulgarian citizens of Turkish origin, there are many notable Turkish Bulgarian individuals who either emigrated to, or were born in, Turkey and thus have Turkish citizenship.

Academia and medicine

Ahmed Cevdet Pasha
  • Besim Rasim Abdullah [tr], physician
  • Mehmet Türker Acaroğlu [tr], Turkish researcher and librarian (born in Razgrad)
  • Ahmet Cevdet, Ottoman scholar, intellectual, bureaucrat, administrator, and historian[1]
  • İsmail Fenni Ertuğrul, Turkish philosopher (born in Ottoman Veliko Tarnovo)
  • Halil İbrahim Karal [tr], Turkish sociologist, soldier and politician (born in Momchilgrad)
  • Ibrahim Kasimov [bg], agronomist
  • Maria Kexholmskaia [ru], Turkish child from Bulgaria adopted and Christened by Russian soldiers during the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878); she became a nurse during World War I[2]
  • Enis Kortan [tr], Turkish architect (born in Vidin)
  • Tahsin Özgüç, Turkish archaeologist[3]
  • Nesrin Özören, Turkish biologist (born in Silistra)
  • Osman Nuri Peremeci, historian[4]
  • Mümün Tahir [tr], writer and journalist
  • Melih Tahsinoğlu [tr], Turkish pathologist
  • İsmail Hakkı Tonguç, Turkish General Director of Primary Education
  • Ibrahim Yalamov, historian[5]
  • Orlin Zagorov [bg], philosopher

Activism

Arts and literature

Embiya Çavuş
  • Sabahattin Ali, Ottoman and Turkish writer, poet, journalist
  • Mehmet Türker Acaroğlu [tr], Turkish writer (born in Razgrad)
  • Faik İsmail Arda [tr], Turkish poet (born in Yabalkovets)
  • Ahmet Emin Atasoy, Turkish poet, author and interpreter (born in Targovishte)
  • İsmail Cambazov [tr], journalist
  • Yuksel Chaushev [bg], theater director
  • Embiya Çavuş [tr], painter and porcelain artist
  • İsmail Çavuş [tr], writer
  • Hasan Efraimov [bg], writer
  • Ömer Osman Erendoruk [tr], Turkish writer (born in Krumovgrad)
  • Mehmed Karahuseinov [bg], poet, artist and translator; he set himself on fire in protest against the "Revival Process"
  • Kemal Kurt, Turkish-born German author, translator and photographer (Turkish Bulgarian origin)[7]
  • Recep Küpçü, poet
  • Fikret Madaralı [tr], Turkish writer (born in Ottoman Bulgaria)
  • Ertuğrul Özkök, Turkish journalist and a daily columnist (Turkish Bulgarian parents from Kardzhali)
  • Sevda Shishmanova, producer, director and journalist
  • Ahmet Şerif [tr], Turkish writer and poet (born in Razgrad)
  • Muharrem Tahsin [tr], writer
  • Sabri Tata [tr], writer
  • Mehmet Türker [tr], writer
  • Embiya Ulusoy [tr], Turkish writer (born in Shumen)
  • Murat Yetkin [tr], journalist

Aviation

Cinema and television

Cengiz Coşkun
Cansu Dere
Tuvana Türkay

Design

Food

Military

Fakhri Pasha

Music

Fiki
Toni Storaro
  • Sadika Ahmedova [bg], singer
  • Reyhan Angelova, singer
  • Mustafa Chaushev [bg], singer
  • Ciguli, Turkish musician (born in Haskovo)
  • Esil Duran [bg], singer and songwriter[20]
  • Fiki, pop-folk singer
  • Sibel Gürsoy [tr], Turkish singer (born in Bulgaria)
  • Ediz Hafızoğlu [tr], drummer, jazz artist, producer, and songwriter
  • Yıldız İbrahimova, jazz musician and folk singer[21]
  • Hasan Ignatov, pianist (Turkish Bulgarian mother)
  • Ibrahim Ignatov, pianist (Turkish Bulgarian mother)
  • Erol İbrahimov [tr], member of the Bulgarian rock band Wickeda
  • Silvia Katsarova [bg], singer
  • Kadriye Latifova [tr], folk musician
  • Hikmet Mehmedov, choreographer[22]
  • Mesru Mehmedov [bg], conductor
  • Orhan Murad [tr], singer
  • Tuna Ötenel [tr], Turkish jazz musician, pianist , saxophonist and composer (Turkish Bulgarian father)[22]
  • Emrah Storaro [tr], singer
  • Toni Storaro, leading performer on the Bulgarian music label Diapason Records
  • Suzanitta, chalga singer
  • Derya Uluğ, Turkish actress (partial Turkish Bulgarian origin)
  • Ebru Gündeş, Turkish singer (Turkish Bulgarian mother)

Politics

İsmet İnönü
Emel Etem Toshkova
Ahmet Fikri Tüzer

Religion

Sports

Said Ibraimov
Yusuf İsmail
Birsent Karagaren
Hilmi Kiremitçi
Tezdzhan Naimova
Emin Nouri
Neriman Özsoy
Kızılcıklı Mahmut Pehlivan
Chetin Sadula
Ertan Tombak
Zehra Topel

Others

  • Türkan Feyzullah, 18-month-old baby shot by Bulgarian troops during an anti-Bulgarisation protest

See also

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