Ankara University - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

• Adullatif Sener - Lider of political party -former deputy primeminister - former minister of finance
• Bülent Arınç - politician and former speaker of the parliament
• İsmail Hakkı Duru- Theoritical Physicist
• Deniz Baykal - politician and party leader
• Ataol Behramoglu - poet and university lecturer
• Osman Birsen - former CEO of Istanbul Stock Exchange
• Cengiz Çandar - journalist
• Hikmet Çetin - former speaker of the parliament
• Can Dündar - journalist
• Adnan Sezgin - former soccer player and current businessman
• Muammer Güler - Governor of Istanbul
• Aydın Güven Gürkan - Academician, socialist party leader
• Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu - Secretary-General of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference
• Erdal İnönü -academic and politician
• Mustafa Kalemli - Physician and politician
• Ahmet Taner Kışlalı - intellectual and former government minister
• Hayri Kozakçıoğlu - Province governor and politician
• Ferit Melen - former prime minister
• Adnan Menderes - former prime minister
• Murathan Mungan - author
• Tahsin Özgüç - archaeologist
• Engin Tuzun Paksoy - Professor of Plant Genetics
• Ismail Faruk Paksoy - Director, ESHOT, Izmir
• Ahmet Necdet Sezer - President of Turkey (2000–2007)
• Cemal Süreya - poetv
• Tülay Tuğcu - Former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Turkey
• Mehmet Keçeciler - former minister, politician
• Mehmet Görmez - Current president of the Presidency of Religious Affairs
• Murat Karayalçın - former Minister for Foreign Affairs; former Deputy Prime Minister and former Mayor of Ankara
• Sedat Laçiner - IR lecturer and Director of International Strategic Research Organization (USAK)
• Hasan Celal Güzel - former Minister of National Education
• Mehmet Hakkı Suçin - Arabist
• Mehmet Culum - novelist