LOCATION

Official Website:
http://www.ibb.gov.tr/

Population:
11,322,000 (2005 estimate)

BIRTHS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Tansu Ciller	Politician	9-Oct-1946		Prime Minister of Turkey, 1993-96
Kemal Derviş	Government	10-Jan-1949		Head of the UNDP
Bulent Ecevit	Government	28-May-1925	5-Nov-2006	Four-time Prime Minister of Turkey
Recep Tayyip Erdogan	Head of State	26-Feb-1954		Prime Minister of Turkey
Ahmet Ertegün	Business	21-Jul-1923	14-Dec-2006	Atlantic Records co-founder
Elia Kazan	Film Director	7-Sep-1909	28-Sep-2003	A Streetcar Named Desire
Mike Lazaridis	Business	14-Mar-1961		Founder of Research in Motion
Ilhan Mimaroglu	Electronic Musician	11-Mar-1926	17-Jul-2012	Sing Me A Song of Songmy
Orhan Pamuk	Novelist	7-Jun-1952		Leading Turkish novelist
Dimitri from Paris	Disc Jockey	Oct-1963		Celebrated French DJ
Enver Pasha	Government	22-Nov-1881	4-Aug-1922	Young Turk leader, persecuted ethnic minorities
Meshulam Riklis	Business	2-Dec-1923		Corporate raider
Nouriel Roubini	Economist	29-Mar-1958		Dr. Doom, Roubini Global Economics
Cenk Uygur	Talk Show Host	21-Mar-1970		The Young Turks
Gregory Vlastos	Philosopher	27-Jul-1907	12-Oct-1991	Influential scholar of ancient philosophy

DEATHS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Celal Bayar	Head of State	16-May-1883	22-Aug-1986	President of Turkey, 1950-60
Turgut Özal	Head of State	13-Oct-1927	17-Apr-1993	8th President of Turkey

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