List of Famous people born in Diyarbakır Province

Sezai Karakoç

First Name Sezai
Last Name Karakoç
Born on January 22, 1933
Died on November 16, 2021 (aged 88)

Sezai Karakoç is a Turkish writer, thinker, community leader, and poet.

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Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı

Hüseyin Cahit
First Name Cahit
Born on October 4, 1910
Died on January 12, 1956 (aged 45)

Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı was a Turkish poet and author.

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Aziz Yıldırım

First Name Aziz
Last Name Yıldırım
Born on November 2, 1952 (age 71)

Aziz Yıldırım was the 36th chairman of the Turkish multi-sport club Fenerbahçe SK. He lost the election held on 3 June 2018 to Ali Koç which made him the 37th president of the Turkish club. He served the club as the president from 1998 to 2018. He has a degree in civil engineering.

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Nihat Hatipoğlu

First Name Nihat
Born on May 11, 1955 (age 68)

Nihat Hatipoğlu is a Turkish academician and theologian.

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Gazi Yaşargil

Mahmut Gazi Yaşargil
First Name Gazi
Last Name Yaşargil
Born on July 6, 1925 (age 98)

Mahmut Gazi Yaşargil is a Turkish medical scientist and neurosurgeon. He collaborated with Raymond M. P. Donaghy M.D at the University of Vermont in developing microneurosurgery. Yaşargil treated epilepsy and brain tumors with instruments of his own design. From 1953 until his retirement in 1993 he was first resident, chief resident and then professor and chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery, University of Zurich and the Zurich University Hospital. In 1999 he was honored as "Neurosurgery’s Man of the Century 1950–1999" at the Congress of Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting. He is a founding member of Eurasian Academy. He is regarded as one of the greatest neurosurgeons in the modern age.

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Oktay Vural

First Name Oktay
Last Name Vural
Born on February 9, 1956 (age 68)

Oktay Vural is a Turkish politician, lawyer and former bureaucrat.

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Ceren Moray

First Name Ceren
Last Name Moray
Born on June 5, 1985 (age 38)

Ceren Moray is a Turkish actress known for her roles in TV series Kavak Yelleri and O Hayat Benim. Moray known for her naturalist style acting.

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Başak Demirtaş

First Name Başak
Last Name Demirtaş
Born on January 1, 1977 (age 47)

Başak Demirtaş is a Kurdish-Turkish teacher, author, and the wife of Selahattin Demirtaş, the former leader of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), who she has been campaigning to get released from prison since 2016.

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Nihat Özdemir

First Name Nihat
Born on April 5, 1950 (age 73)
Net Worth $2.3B

Nihat Özdemir is a Turkish businessman and the president of the Turkish Football Federation. He was the Deputy President and Press Spokesman for Turkish Süper Lig football club Fenerbahçe SK.

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Leyla Zana

First Name Leyla
Born on May 3, 1961 (age 62)

Leyla Zana is a Kurdish politician in Turkey who was imprisoned for ten years for her political activism, which was deemed by the Turkish courts to be against the unity of the country. She was awarded the 1995 Sakharov Prize by the European Parliament, but was unable to collect it until her release in 2004. She was also awarded the Rafto Prize in 1994 after being recognized by the Rafto Foundation for being incarcerated for her peaceful struggle for the human rights of the Kurdish people in Turkey and the neighbouring countries.

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