List of Istanbul Technical University people

This is a list of people associated with Istanbul Technical University in Turkey.

Politics

Turgut Özal, 8th President of Turkey

Süleyman Demirel, 9th President of Turkey

• Ahmet Arslan (born 1962) — Minister of Transport, Maritime and Communication and a Member of Parliament for Kars
• Fatih Birol (born 1958) — Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (2015–present), Chief Economist of the International Energy Agency (1995-2015)
• Bedrettin Dalan (born 1941) — Former Mayor of Istanbul (1984–1989)
• Vedat Ali Dalokay (1927–1991) — Former Mayor of Ankara (1973–1977)
• Süleyman Demirel (1924-2015) — Former President of Turkey (1993–2000) and Prime Minister
• Aytaç Durak (1938-2014) — Mayor of Adana (1994–2014)
• Necmettin Erbakan (1926-2011) — Former Prime Minister (1996–1997) and former President of TOBB (1969)
• Veysel Eroğlu (born 1948) — Former Minister of Environment and Head of State Hydraulic Works
• Safa Giray (1931-2011) — Former Minister of Foreign Affairs (1991)
• Recai Kutan (born 1930) — President of Felicity Party
• Turgut Özal (1927–1993) — Former President of Turkey (1989–1993) and Prime Minister (1983–1989)
• Ruhsar Pekcan (born 1958) — Minister of Trade (2018-2021)
• Binali Yıldırım (born 1955) — Prime Minister, maritime engineer and former Minister of Transport, Maritime and Communication
• Taner Yıldız (born 1962) — Minister of Energy and Natural Resources (2009-2015)
• İsmet Yılmaz (born 1961) — Minister of National Education of Turkey and former Speaker of the Grand National Assembly

Business

Selçuk Bayraktar, CTO of Baykar

• İshak Alaton (born 1927) — Co-founder of Alarko Holding
• Selçuk Bayraktar (born 1979) — Chief Technology Officer of Baykar
• Halil Boztepe (born 1970) — CEO of Tepe Kimya
• Üzeyir Garih (1929–2001) — Co-founder of Alarko Holding
• Sadi Gülçelik (born 1929) — Co-founder of ENKA Holding
• Mehmet Hacim Kamoy (1922-2004) — Founding CEO of ASELSAN
• Temel Kotil (born 1959) — CEO of Turkish Airlines
• Volkan Sevilgen (born 1980) — CTO and co-founder of Temblor, Inc.
• Şarık Tara (born 1930) — Co-founder of ENKA Holding
• Faruk Yarman (born 1954) — CEO of HAVELSAN

Science and technology

Ivet Bahar, Director of the Louis and Beatrice Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology

• Zeynep Ahunbay (born 1946) — Architect
• Ali Akansu (born 1958) — Electrical & computer engineering and scientist, professor at NJIT
• Attila Aşkar (born 1944) — Civil engineer and applied mathematician, former President and Rector of the Koç University. (2001-2009) ^[1]
• Ivet Bahar — Computational biologist, professor at the University of Pittsburgh
• Ali Erdemir — Material scientist ^{[2] [3]}
• A. Cemal Eringen (1921-2009) — Civil engineer and applied mathematician; professor at Princeton University
• Doğan Kuban (born 1926) — Architectural historian
• Emin Halid Onat (1908–1961) — Architect of Anıtkabir and first dean of ITU School of Architecture ^[4]
• Hürriyet Sırmaçek (1912 - 1983) — Turkey's first female bridge engineer ^[5]
• Celâl Şengör (born 1955) — Geologist
• Karl von Terzaghi (1883–1963) — Mechanical engineer, founder of soil mechanics
• Mehmet Toner (born 1958) — Biomedical engineering and scientist, professor at MIT

Art

Erkan Oğur, Turkish musician

• Funda Arar (born 1975) — Pop singer
• Ahmet Aslan (born 1968) — Musician
• Oğuz Atay (1934–1977) — Novelist ^[6]
• Murat Boz — Pop singer
• Güler Duman (born 1967) — Turkish folk music
• Berke Hatipoğlu (born 1976) — Guitarist of the rock band Redd
• Erkan Oğur (born 1954) — Musician
• Ziynet Sali — Singer
• Ahmet Yalçınkaya (born 1963) — Poet

Sports

Çağla Kubat, Turkish actress, model, windsurfer

• Zehra Öktem — Olympic archer
• Çağla Kubat — Windsurfer

Political activisism

• Harun Karadeniz (1942–1975) — 1970s student leader

Others

• Behruz Çinici — Architect of METU Ankara Campus and Atatürk University Campus
• Mehmet Gümüşburun — Bureaucrat
• Sabiha Gürayman — First Turkish woman engineer
• Waleed A. Samkari — Commander of Jordan Royal Maintenance Corps
• Ateşan Aybars (Class of 1973) — Economist, TV celebrity, biomedical engineer and commodity trading advisor
• Alper Derinboğaz — Architect

Dropouts

• Yılmaz Erdoğan (born 1967) — Actor
• Orhan Pamuk (born 1952) — Novelist, Nobel Laureate in Literature (2006)

References

1. Attila Aşkar received his Engineering Diploma from the Technical University of Istanbul in 1966.
2. "İTÜ Mezunu Ali Erdemir'in Motor Yağının Sürtünmesini Azaltan Büyük Buluşu | İMK". Archived from the original on 2009-12-05. Retrieved 2010-04-03.
3. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-05-27. Retrieved 2010-04-03.
4. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-16. Retrieved 2010-04-03.
5. https://om.ciheam.org/om/pdf/a87/00801050.pdf ^{[ bare URL PDF ]}
6. Oğuz Atay