Mustafa Kemal Attatürk "Pasha",The "Father of the Turks", president of 1934, born on May 19, 1881 in Salonika and died in Istanbul on November 10, 1938, is a Turkish statesman, founder and first president of the Republic of Turkey from 1923 to 1938.

Mimar Koca Sinan bin Abd al-Mannan, better known as Mimar Sinan, or the architect Sinan, was born in the village of Ağırnas near Kayseri, Cappadocia, on April 15, 1489. He learned part of the job of mason and carpenter alongside his father, before being recruited under the mandate - recruiting young boys converted to Islam and a duty of total allegiance to the Sultan - set place by Murat Ier. He became the greatest builder of the Ottoman during the reign of Sultans Suleiman the Magnificent, Selim II and Murat III.

Djalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Balkhi1 or Rûmî, born in Balkh (present-day Afghanistan) in the Khorasan (large region of Persian culture), on September 30, 1207 and died in Konya (in present-day Turkey) on December 17, 1273, is a poet Persian mystic who deeply influenced Sufism. There are half a dozen transcriptions of the name Djalal-el-din, "majesty of religion" (djalâl, majesty and dîn, religion, memory, worship).An example of these words : "Yesterday, I was smart and I wanted to change the world. Today, I am wise and I change myself" and "You would not look for me if you had already found me".

Fatih Akın, born August 25, 1973 in Hamburg, Germany, is a German director, screenwriter, producer and actor of Turkish origin.

He has directed the films Head-On, awarded the Golden Bear in 2004, On the other side, which won the script award at the Cannes Film Festival 2007 and the comedy Soul Kitchen, which won the Grand prize at the Venice Film Festival 2009

Karagöz (literally black in Turkish) means the Turkish shadow theater. Its name comes from that of one of the two main traditional characters, Karagöz and Hacivat. The theme of the plays united between two characters, Karagöz, the illiterate people's man close to the public while Hacivat belongs to the educated class and expresses himself in Turkish using the literary turns and poetic terms. Originally, this theater was very much associated with the Ramadan period and it remained for a long time during a very popular entertainment in Turkey. Today, it survives only in a sweetened form intended for children.