Lists of people of Turkish origin by country |
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By traditional areas of settlement: |
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This is a list of notable individuals of Turkish ancestry who are born, grew up and/or live in Germany.
The list does not include Kurds, apart from those who are partly of Turkish and non-Kurdish origin (for example if someone has a Turkish and a Kurdish parent). For Kurdish people see: List of German people of Kurdish descent.
Musician
editGerman-speaking rapper (male)
- Kool Savas
- Haftbefehl (half Kurdish)
- Mero
- Summer Cem
- Ufo361
- Eko Fresh (half Kurdish)
- Apache 207
- Capo (half Kurdish)
- Gringo
- Mert
- Jigzaw (with Azeri roots)
- Sero El Mero
- Metrickz
- Hasan.K
- Alpa Gun
- Bass Sultan Hengzt
- Remoe (also singer)
- Yung Kafa [1]
- Kücük Efendi [2]
- G-Hot
- Chefket
- Credibil (half Kurdish)
- Jazn
- C Arma (also singer)
- BRKN (half Kurdish & Armenian)
- Erencan [3]
- Batu [4]
- Automatikk (consisting of Rokko81 and Atillah78)
- Ali471 [5]
- Pashanim
- MOK
- Playboy 51
- Maestro [6]
- Baler [7]
- Samarita
- Caput
- Jiggo
- Divoe [8]
- Ercandize
- Kex Kuhl
- Cengiz [9]
- Luqe (Aramean)
- Mehmet & Murat
- Massaka
- Nanik
- Sami51
- Beto
- Hemso
- Anonym
- Maho47
- Billstedt Bilal
- Azab Ata
- M-Jahid
- Melekai
- UKT
- Elbabo
- Mazer
- Tunc
- Rako
- Bektas
- Azra
- Little Asia
- Tachiles
- Volkan T.
- Hakan Abi
German-speaking rapper (female)
- Hava (also singer)
- Melisa Toprakçı / MEL [10][11] (also singer)
- Xiara [12][13] (also singer)
- Melisa Carolina [14] (also singer)
- Ebow
- Berivan Bıçakçı [15][16] (also singer)
- Yasmin Ayhan [17][18] (half Kurdish)
- Genuva (half Kurdish)
- Lady Bitch Ray
- Neray [19][20]
Turkish-speaking rapper
- Cartel (group)
- Islamic Force (group)
- Da Crime Posse (group)
- Killa Hakan
German-speaking singer
- Muhabbet (has also released many Turkish songs)
- Apache 207 (also rap artist)
- Hava (rap & singing)
- Xiara (rap & singing)
- Remoe
- C Arma
- Elif Demirezer
- Bahar Kızıl (has also released many English songs)
- Meltem Acikgöz - DSDS Finalist 2014
- Joana Kesenci (Aramean) [21][22] - DSDS Finalist 2019
- Daniel Ceylan (Aramean) [23] - DSDS Finalist 2014
- Duygu Goenel - DSDS Finalist 2017
- Melisa Toprakçı / MEL (rap & singing)
- Melisa Carolina (rap & singing)
- Berivan Bıçakçı (rap & singing)
- Mert Gökmen
Turkish-speaking singer
- Tarkan Tevetoğlu
- Muhabbet (has also released many German songs)
- İsmail YK
- Hasibe Turhan [24]
- Derya Ükmez [25]
- Kadr [26]
- Enes [27]
- Aylin Aslım
- Esra Dalfidan
- Atiye Deniz
- Rafet El Roman
- Pamela Spence
- Esraworld [28]
English-speaking singer
- Bahar Kızıl (has also released many German songs)
- Aydo Abay
- Ateed
- Esra Dalfidan
- Martin Kesici
- Alev Lenz
- Özay Fecht
- Elif Batman [29] - DSDS 7th place 2014
Rest
Athletes
editCombat sport
- Firat Arslan
- Cengiz Koç
- Asiye Özlem Şahin
- Hülya Şahin
- Sinan Şamil Sam
- Oktay Urkal
- Ünsal Arik
- Mithat Bayrak
- Salih Avci
- Emin Boztepe
Basketball
Billiard
Ice Hockey
Hockey
Rugby
Skiing
Taekwondo
Volleyball
Football (male)
- Mesut Özil
- İlkay Gündoğan
- Emre Can
- Mehmet Scholl
- Hamit Altıntop
- Halil Altıntop
- Nuri Şahin
- Hakan Çalhanoğlu
- Ömer Toprak
- Serdar Tasci
- Kerem Demirbay
- Suat Serdar
- Yıldıray Baştürk
- Malik Fathi
- Mustafa Doğan
- Tolgay Arslan
- Yunus Mallı
- Gökhan Töre
- Kaan Ayhan
- Cenk Tosun
- Kenan Karaman
- Nazim Sangaré
- Güven Yalçın
- Berkay Özcan
- Hasan Ali Kaldırım
- Levin Öztunalı
- Salih Özcan
- Mehmet Ekici
- Tayfun Korkut
- Volkan Arslan
- Ogün Temizkanoğlu
- Olcay Şahan
- Serhat Akin
- Ümit Davala
- Tunay Torun
- Tayfur Havutçu
- Umit Karan
- İlhan Mansız
- Hakan Balta
- Ceyhun Gülselam
- Ali Güneş
- Serdar Güneş
- Alper Akçam
- Mehmet Akgün
- Şahin Aygüneş
- Serhat Akın
- Erhan Albayrak
- Selçuk Alibaz
- Ünal Alpuğan
- Salih Altın
- Tevfik Altındağ
- Hakan Aslantaş
- Serkan Atak
- İbrahim Aydemir
- Selim Aydemir
- Semih Aydilek
- Erhan Aydın
- Necat Aygün
- Onur Ayık
- Sezer Badur
- Alper Balaban
- Orkan Balkan
- Barbaros Barut
- Atif Bashir
- Engin Baytar
- Ferhat Bıkmaz
- Ali Bilgin
- Oguzhan Biyik
- Gökhan Bozkaya
- Mehmet Boztepe
- Erol Bulut
- Hamza Çakir
- Serkan Çalik
- Gökhan Çalışal
- Nizamettin Çalışkan
- Müslüm Can
- Ahmet Cebe
- Musa Celik
- Ferhat Cerci
- Bilal Çubukçu
- Ersin Demir
- Deniz Doğan
- Hüzeyfe Doğan
- Ahmet Dursun
- Alparslan Erdem
- Ömer Erdoğan
- Sertan Eser
- Ayhan Gezen
- Berkant Göktan
- Cenk Güvenç
- Sercan Güvenışık
- Özer Hurmacı
- Uğur İnceman
- Cenk İşler
- Fuat Kalkan
- Cihan Kaptan
- Aydın Karabulut
- Cem Karaca
- Ümit Karan
- Arif Karaoğlan
- Özgür Kart
- Burhanettin Kaymak
- Oğuzhan Kefkir
- Umut Kekıllı
- Erdal Keser
- Polat Keser
- Erdal Kılıçaslan
- Ferhat Kıskanç
- Süleyman Koç
- Celaleddin Koçak
- Guido Koçer
- Umut Koçin
- Bahattin Köse
- Tevfik Köse
- Oktay Kuday
- Burakcan Kunt
- Ahmet Kuru
- Taygun Kuru
- Ersen Martin
- Cemil Mengi
- Patrick Mölzl
- Barış Özbek
- Ufuk Özbek
- Furkan Özçal
- Abdulkadir Özgen
- Mustafa Özkan
- Cihan Özkara
- Yasin Öztekin
- Aykut Öztürk
- Emre Öztürk
- Erkan Öztürk
- Sezer Öztürk
- Tayfun Pektürk
- Ahmet Sağlam
- Mahir Sağlık
- Kenan Şahin
- Murat Salar
- Sercan Sararer
- Adem Sarı
- Halil Savran
- Tekin Sazlog
- Eren Şen
- Yusuf Soysal
- Abdullah Elyasa Süme
- Aytaç Sulu
- Turgay Tapu
- Selim Teber
- Murat Tosun
- Tufan Tosunoğlu
- İbrahim Türkkan
- Suat Türker
- Volkan Ünlü
- Taner Yalçın
- Volkan Yaman
- Zafer Yelen
- Deniz Yılmaz
- Mahmut Yilmaz
- Sefa Yılmaz
- Mehmet Yozgatlı
Football (female)
- Sara Doorsoun
- Hasret Kayıkçı
- Aycan Yanaç
- Melike Pekel
- Dilan Ağgül
- Selin Dişli
- Arzu Karabulut
- Ecem Cumert
- Fatma Kara
- Fatma Işık
- Ebru Uzungüney
- Feride Bakır
- Esra Sibel Tezkan
Football managers
Politicians
edit- Cem Özdemir
- Leyla Onur
- Özcan Mutlu
- Ekin Deligöz
- Aydan Özoğuz
- Cemile Giousouf
- Cansel Kızıltepe
- Mahmut Özdemir
- Filiz Polat
- Lale Akgün
- Ismail Ertug
- Hakkı Keskin
- Vural Öger
- Aygül Özkan
- Dilek Kalayci
Cansel Kızıltepe |
TV & filming
editActors (male)
- Fahri Yardım
- Erdoğan Atalay
- Erol Sander
- Sinan Akkuş
- Sinan Albayrak
- Erden Alkan
- Tayfun Bademsoy
- Baki Davrak
- Ercan Durmaz
- Erhan Emre
- Demir Gökgöl
- Arman İnci
- Aykut Kayacık
- Mehmet Kurtuluş
- Tekin Kurtuluş
- Adnan Maral
- Denis Moschitto
- Özgür Özata
- Ercan Özçelik
- Oktay Özdemir
- Okan Patirer
- Haluk Piyes
- Tim Seyfi
- Hilmi Sözer
- Birol Ünel
- Haydar Zorlu
- Numan Acar
- Karim Günes
Actresses
- Sibel Kekilli
- Almila Bağrıaçık
- Gizem Emre
- Sıla Şahin
- Aslı Bayram
- Jale Arıkan
- Renan Demirkan
- Şebnem Dönmez
- Selma Ergeç
- Fahriye Evcen
- Jasmin Gerat
- Lale Karci
- Nursel Köse
- Emine Sevgi Özdamar
- Meral Perin
- Nezâ Selbuz
- Türkiz Talay
- İdil Üner
- Belhe Zaimoğlu
- Özay Fecht
Film directors, producers & screenwriters
- Fatih Akın
- Özgür Yıldırım
- Şermin Langhoff
- Bülent Akinci
- Tevfik Başer
- Neco Celik
- Nesrin Şamdereli
- Yasemin Şamdereli
- Mennan Yapo
- Numan Acar
- Bora Dağtekin
Comedians
TV personalities & presenters
Serdar Somuncu | Özcan Coşar | ||
Menderes Bağcı |
Influencer, YouTuber & Blogger
editGerman-speaking Youtuber
- Emrah - over 2.3 million subscribers
- Sallys Welt - over 1.5 million subscribers
- Mert - YouTuber for a long time, now he only does rap music, over 1.2 million subscribers
- Mert Matan - over 1 million subscribers [30]
- Nihan - over 0.8 million subscribers [31]
- Hatice Schmidt - over 0.7 million subscribers [32]
- CanBroke - ca. 0.7 million subscribers [33][34]
- Denizon - over 0.6 million subscribers [35][36]
- Dilara - also most successful Turkish-German Instagram-Influecer with ca. 3 million followers on Instagram & over 0.5 million subscribers on YouTube [37][38]
- Saftiges Gnu- over 0.5 million subscribers [39]
- itsAssiTV - over 0.4 million subscribers [40]
- Yavi TV - ca. 0.4 million subscribers [41]
- Dilara Duman - over 0.3 million subscribers [42]
- Tuncay & Ebru Demir - over 0.3 million subscribers [43]
- İdil Baydar - stand-up-comedian, but she also does regular comedy videos on YouTube
- Oğuz Yılmaz - part of the former Comedy-trio Y-Titty (over 3,1 million subscribers on YouTube, a long time the German YouTube channel with the most subscribers, dissolution in 2015)
- Cengiz Doğrul - part of Comedy-trio ApeCrime (over 2.4 million subscribers on YouTube)
- Gülcan Çetin - part of the channel Datteltäter (ca. 0.4 million subscribers) [44][45]
- Esra Karakaya - part of the channel Datteltäter (ca. 0.4 million subscribers) [46]
- Bilgili Üretmen - pro-AKP political blogger and YouTuber [47][48][49]
- Gizem Shakier - Hip-hop interviewer & radio host [50]
- Tolga Akar - Hip-hop interviewer & radio host [51]
- Der Ömsen
Rest
- Kübra Gümüşay - journalist, blogger & web activist of Turkish descent
- Sümeyye Arslan - blogger of Turkish descent, ca. 0.5 million followers on Instagram, her followers are international and almost all of them are from other countries [52]
- Esraworld [53]
Rest
edit- Feridun Zaimoğlu - writer
- Kemal Kurt - writer
- Akif Pirinçci - writer
- Akdemir Udenta - writer
- Sabri Çakir - poet
- Deniz Yücel - journalist
- Hakan Albayrak - journalist
- Sertan Baykara - journalist
- Cevat Yerli - video game designer
- Necla Kelek - social scientist
- Sabriye Tenberken - Social worker
- Murad Sezer - photographer
- Asuman Krause - model
- Jennifer Şebnem Schaefer - model
- Aslı Bayram - model (Miss Germany 2005)
- Leyla Tuğutlu - model (Miss Turkey 2008)
- Necmi Sönmez - art critic
- Bahtiyar Duysak - businessperson
- Kemal Derviş - economist
- Kemal Şahin - entrepreneur
- Murat Kurnaz - Guantanamo detainee
- Metin Kaplan - religious leader
- 36 Boys - gang
- Kemal Ergün
- Murat Kayman
- Mustafa Yeneroğlu
- Eren Güvercin
- Tayfun Keltek
- Cemal Çetin
- Mehmet Alp Çelebi
- Kenan Güngör
- Seyda Taygur
See also
editReferences
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