10 FAMOUS PEOPLE FROM TURKEY WITH THEIR

INTERNATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT

SERTAP ERENER is a successful singer who won the 2003 Eurovision song contest

ERKAN UĞUR is a professional musician. Since he needed detailed sounds from a guitar in order to obtain Turkish mellodies, he modified his guitar and invented the fretless classical guitar in 1976

AZRA AKIN was crowned Miss World 2002 in London, representing Turkey

EMRE AYDIN won the MTV Video Music Awards 2008 in the ‘Europe’ s Favourite Act’ category

SEMIH SAYGINER (also known as Mr. Magic) is a four –time world champion

billiard player, has got the world record for the highest run in three-cushion

billiards.

KENAN SOFUOGLU is a professional motorcycle racer who won the 2007

Supersport World Championship

ORHAN PAMUK is a Tukish novelist who won the 2006 Nobel Prize in

Literature

YASEMİN DALKILIC is a free diver. She holds numerous world records in different categories of

free diving. Though still in the middle of her career, she is

already considered to be one of the all time greats in the sport.

NAIM SULEYMANOGLU and HALIL MUTLU have achieved legendary status as one of

the few weightlifters to have won three gold medals in three Olympic Games.

MEHMET OKUR is the first Turkish NBA champion in 2004 with Detroit Pistons and also the first Turkish baketball player who

was chosen to NBA All Star team.