WAhmed III was Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and a son of Sultan Mehmed IV. His mother was Gülnuş Sultan, originally named Evmenia Voria, who was an ethnic Greek. He was born at Hacıoğlu Pazarcık, in Dobruja. He succeeded to the throne in 1703 on the abdication of his brother Mustafa II (1695–1703). Nevşehirli Damat İbrahim Pasha and the Sultan's daughter, Fatma Sultan directed the government from 1718 to 1730, a period referred to as the Tulip Era.
WFakir Baykurt or born Tahir Baykurt was a Turkish author and trade unionist.
WVaghinag Bekaryan was an Armenian pedagogue, poet, and writer.
WYahya Kemal Beyatlı, born Ahmet Âgâh, was a leading Turkish poet and author, as well as a politician and diplomat.
WRıza Tevfik Bey was an Ottoman and later Turkish philosopher, poet, politician of liberal signature and a community leader of the late-19th-century and early-20th-century. A polyglot, he is most remembered in Turkey for being one of the four Ottoman signatories of the disastrous Treaty of Sèvres, for which reason he was included in 1923 among the 150 personae non gratae of Turkey, and he spent 20 years in exile until he was given amnesty by Turkey in 1943.
WNail Çakırhan was a Turkish poet and journalist in his career in the beginning, and later a self-taught and award-winning architect and restorer who left his print particularly in the architecture of the coastal township of Akyaka in southwestern Turkey through old houses he had repaired and restored or new houses built in accordance with the traditional styles and approaches of Turkish/Ottoman/Aegean houses, supplemented with innovative conceptions and designs.
WHaydar Ergülen is a Turkish poet. Born on 14 October 1956, in Eskişehir, Turkey, he graduated from the Sociology Department at Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi in Ankara.
WAhmet Necip Fazıl Kısakürek was a Turkish poet, novelist, playwright, and Islamist ideologue. He is also known simply by his initials NFK. He was noticed by the French philosopher Henri Bergson, who later became his teacher.
WMurathan Mungan is a Turkish author, short story writer, playwright and poet.
WAhmet Ümit is a Turkish author and poet. He is best known for his crime novels.
WHasan Âli Yücel was a Turkish education reformer and philosophy teacher who served as minister of national education of Turkey from December 1938 to August 1946. He is remembered for the foundation of Village Institutes.
WAbdurrahman Cahit Zarifoğlu was a Turkish poet and writer.