List of Famous people born in Rize Province

Temel Kotil

First Name Temel
Last Name Kotil
Born on December 3, 1959 (age 64)
Born in Rize Province

Temel Kotil is an aeronautical engineer and currently the CEO of Turkish Aerospace Industries. Previously, he served as the CEO of Turkish Airlines from April 2005 to October 2016.

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Ali Atay

First Name Ali
Last Name Atay
Born on April 20, 1976 (age 47)
Born in Rize Province

Dursun Ali Atay is a Turkish actor, musician, screenwriter and director. He graduated theatre department of Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University. He is best known for his role as Mecnun in the hit surreal comedy series Leyla ile Mecnun. He is the recipient of Tribeca Best Actor Award. He has appeared in more than fifteen films and theatre plays since 1999.

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İsmail Kahraman

First Name İsmail
Last Name Kahraman
Born on December 7, 1940 (age 83)
Born in Rize Province

İsmail Kahraman is a Turkish politician from the Justice and Development Party (AKP) who served as the 27th Speaker of the Grand National Assembly from 22 November 2015 to 7 July 2018. He has been the Member of Parliament for İstanbul's first electoral district since 1 November 2015, having previously served as an MP for İstanbul between 1995 and 2002. He also served as Minister of Culture from 1996 to 1997 in the government of Necmettin Erbakan as a member of the Islamist Welfare Party.

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İsmail Saymaz

First Name İsmail
Last Name Saymaz
Born on July 11, 1980 (age 43)
Born in Rize Province

İsmail Saymaz is a Turkish investigative journalist for the newspaper Radikal. He has published articles and books on the Turkish deep state and Ergenekon, including a 2011 book on links between the 2007 Zirve Publishing House massacre and the 2006 killing of Andrea Santoro, and another 2011 book on former police chief Hanefi Avcı. He has won a number of awards for his work.

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Hüseyin Avni Mutlu

First Name Hüseyin
Born on January 1, 1956 (age 68)
Born in Rize Province

Hüseyin Avni Mutlu is a Turkish civil servant. He served as the Governor of Istanbul Province between 2010 and 2014.

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Sinan Ozen

First Name Sinan
Last Name Ozen
Born on March 1, 1964 (age 60)
Born in Rize Province

Sinan Özen is a Turkish singer, musician, songwriter, composer, actor, and TV presenter.

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Kenan İpek

First Name Kenan
Last Name İpek
Born on October 5, 1959 (age 64)
Born in Rize Province

Kenan İpek is a Turkish legal prosecutor and judge who served as the Minister of Justice of Turkey from 7 March to 17 November 2015. Having previously served as the Undersecretary to the Justice Ministry, İpek succeeded the Justice and Development Party minister Bekir Bozdağ as the Minister of Justice in accordance to Article 114 of the Turkish Constitution three months before the June 2015 general election. He is, formally, of no political affiliation, and concurrently served as the President of the Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors during his time as Minister.

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Fahri Kasırga

First Name Fahri
Born on March 1, 1953 (age 71)
Born in Rize Province

Fahri Kasırga is a Turkish lawyer and the current Secretary General of the Presidency of Turkey. In accordance with Article 114 of the Constitution of Turkey, he has served as a non-party Minister of Justice until the 2007 general elections, after which he joined the Justice and Development Party of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

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Yusuf Namoğlu

First Name Yusuf
Last Name Namoğlu
Born on February 8, 1947 (age 77)
Born in Rize Province

Yusuf Namoğlu was a Turkish international football referee politician and architect.

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Gökhan Hotamışlıgil

First Name Gökhan
Last Name Hotamışlıgil
Born on June 24, 1962 (age 61)
Born in Rize Province

Gökhan S. Hotamisligil is a Turkish-American physician scientist; James Stevens Simmons Chair of Genetics and Metabolism; Department of Genetics and Complex Diseases at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH); Director of the Sabri Ülker Center for Metabolic Research and associate member of Harvard-MIT Broad Institute, Harvard Stem Cell Institute and the Joslin Diabetes Center.

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