Post by bosanskinovi on Jan 16, 2009 10:27:33 GMT -5
Famous Bosniaks in Turkey
Sarik Tara - The richest man in Turkey. He's placed 488 on Forbes list of the worlds richest people and is a Bosniak from Macedonia
Sabiha Gökçen - The first female combat pilot in the world and adopted daughter of Ataturk
Ekrem Akurgal - famous archaeologist
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Ekrem Akurgal (March 30, 1911 - November 1, 2002) was a prominent and internationally famous Turkish archaeologist. During a career that spanned more than fifty years, he conducted definitive research in several sites along the western coast of Anatolia such as Phokaia (Foça), Pitane (Çandarlý), Erythrai (Ildýrý) and old Smyrna (Bayraklý höyük, the original site of the city of Smyrna before the city's move to another spot across the Gulf of Ýzmir). A polyglot, he also had a star quality that eased relations beyond Turkey's borders, for the benefit of the image of the country that he represented with skill.
He was born on March 30, 1911 in the Arab village of Tulkarm (today a Palestinian city in the West Bank), where his mother's family owned a large farm. Later on, he would jokingly comment on the village of Tulkarm itself becoming a well-known name in the world of archaeology, the place being close to the location of the ancient site of Caesarea Maritima. He descended from a family of Ottoman intellectuals and religious men, several of whose members had assumed the office of mufti, the highest title of the Islamic clergy in a given region, for the Ottoman province of Herzegovina. His family moved back from Palestine to Ýstanbul when he was two years old. For some time, they resided in another family farm, this time near the Akyazý district of Adapazarý. He received his first education from his father's sister and her husband, who taught literature in Darülfünun (Istanbul University today).
Akurgal graduated in 1931 from Istanbul High School for Boys and, having earned a state scholarship, went to the University of Berlin in Germany to study archaeology. In a Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung made in 1990, the interviewer was to remark that, now and then, his German was still unmistakably tainted with Berlinerisch.
In 1957, he became a professor in University of Ankara. He worked mainly in the Aegean Region, starting the researches on Phokaia (Foça), Pitane (Çandarlý), Erythrai (Ildýrý) and old Smyrna (Bayraklý tumulus). He published numerous books on ancient Greek, Hittite and other ancient civilizations of Anatolia.
Akurgal received honorary doctorates from the University of Bordeaux, France in 1961, the University of Athens, Greece in 1988, the University of Lecce, Italy in 1990 and the Anadolu University in Eskiþehir in 1990.
He was titular of the German Great Cross of Merit with star in 1979, of the Goethe Medal in 1979, of Italian Commandatore of the Order of Merit of the Republic in 1987 and of French Légion d'honneur Officier.
Settled in Ýzmir since the seventies to pursue his work on the nearby sites with more effectiveness, Akurgal died on November 1, 2002 in Ýzmir. His work and legacy is being carried on by his wife, Meral Akurgal, an accomplished archaeologist herself and his closest assistant in his lifetime.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekrem_Akurgal
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Ayten Alpman - singer
Cem Adrian - singer, songwriter, author and producer
Salih Akgul - Businessman
Nejat Biyedic (Bijedic) - Football manager, Bursaspor
Ekrem Bora - actor
Cenk Bosnali - singer
Metin Bosnak - academic
Orhan Edip Erturk - actor
Sarik Tara - The richest man in Turkey. He's placed 488 on Forbes list of the worlds richest people and is a Bosniak from Macedonia
Sabiha Gökçen - The first female combat pilot in the world and adopted daughter of Ataturk
Ekrem Akurgal - famous archaeologist
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Ekrem Akurgal (March 30, 1911 - November 1, 2002) was a prominent and internationally famous Turkish archaeologist. During a career that spanned more than fifty years, he conducted definitive research in several sites along the western coast of Anatolia such as Phokaia (Foça), Pitane (Çandarlý), Erythrai (Ildýrý) and old Smyrna (Bayraklý höyük, the original site of the city of Smyrna before the city's move to another spot across the Gulf of Ýzmir). A polyglot, he also had a star quality that eased relations beyond Turkey's borders, for the benefit of the image of the country that he represented with skill.
He was born on March 30, 1911 in the Arab village of Tulkarm (today a Palestinian city in the West Bank), where his mother's family owned a large farm. Later on, he would jokingly comment on the village of Tulkarm itself becoming a well-known name in the world of archaeology, the place being close to the location of the ancient site of Caesarea Maritima. He descended from a family of Ottoman intellectuals and religious men, several of whose members had assumed the office of mufti, the highest title of the Islamic clergy in a given region, for the Ottoman province of Herzegovina. His family moved back from Palestine to Ýstanbul when he was two years old. For some time, they resided in another family farm, this time near the Akyazý district of Adapazarý. He received his first education from his father's sister and her husband, who taught literature in Darülfünun (Istanbul University today).
Akurgal graduated in 1931 from Istanbul High School for Boys and, having earned a state scholarship, went to the University of Berlin in Germany to study archaeology. In a Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung made in 1990, the interviewer was to remark that, now and then, his German was still unmistakably tainted with Berlinerisch.
In 1957, he became a professor in University of Ankara. He worked mainly in the Aegean Region, starting the researches on Phokaia (Foça), Pitane (Çandarlý), Erythrai (Ildýrý) and old Smyrna (Bayraklý tumulus). He published numerous books on ancient Greek, Hittite and other ancient civilizations of Anatolia.
Akurgal received honorary doctorates from the University of Bordeaux, France in 1961, the University of Athens, Greece in 1988, the University of Lecce, Italy in 1990 and the Anadolu University in Eskiþehir in 1990.
He was titular of the German Great Cross of Merit with star in 1979, of the Goethe Medal in 1979, of Italian Commandatore of the Order of Merit of the Republic in 1987 and of French Légion d'honneur Officier.
Settled in Ýzmir since the seventies to pursue his work on the nearby sites with more effectiveness, Akurgal died on November 1, 2002 in Ýzmir. His work and legacy is being carried on by his wife, Meral Akurgal, an accomplished archaeologist herself and his closest assistant in his lifetime.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekrem_Akurgal
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Ayten Alpman - singer
Cem Adrian - singer, songwriter, author and producer
Salih Akgul - Businessman
Nejat Biyedic (Bijedic) - Football manager, Bursaspor
Ekrem Bora - actor
Cenk Bosnali - singer
Metin Bosnak - academic
Orhan Edip Erturk - actor
