List of Istanbul Technical University people

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

Politicians and public figures

Turgut Özal

• Bedrettin Dalan (born 1941) - former Mayor of Istanbul (1984–1989)
• Vedat Ali Dalokay (1927–1991) - former Mayor of Ankara (1973–1977)
• Süleyman Demirel (born 1924) - former President of Turkey (1993–2000) and Prime minister (five times between 1965–1993)
• Aytaç Durak (born 1938) - Mayor of Adana (1994–)
• Necmettin Erbakan (born 1926) - former Prime minister (1996–1997) and former President of TOBB (1969)
• Veysel Eroğlu (born 1948) - Minister of Environment and former 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)
• Binali Yıldırım (born 1955) - Minister of Communications
• Fatih Birol (born 1958) - Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (2015-present), Chief Economist of the International Energy Agency (1995-2015)

Business

• İshak Alaton (born 1927) - co-founder of Alarko Holding
• Üzeyir Garih (1929–2001) - co-founder of Alarko Holding
• Mehmet Hacim Kamoy (1922-2004) - founding CEO of ASELSAN
• Temel Kotil (born 1959) - CEO of Turkish Airlines
• Şarık Tara (born 1930) - founder of Enka Holding
• Faruk Yarman (born 1954) - CEO of HAVELSAN

Science and technology

• Zeynep Ahunbay (born 1946) - architect
• Attila Aşkar (born 1944) - civil engineer and applied mathematician, president and provost (rector) of the Koç University. (2001 - 2009)^[1]
• Ali Akansu - electrical and computer engineering scientist, professor at NJIT
• A. Cemal Eringen (born February 15, 1921 in Kayseri, Turkey - died December 7, 2009) - civil engineer and applied mathematician; professor of continuum physics in the departments of civil engineering and geological engineering, the founder of the program in computational and applied mathematics at Princeton University. Eringen Medal is given every year to a most successful scientist in the fields of continuum mechanics, elasticity, plasticity, rheology and materials science in his honor.^[2]
• Ali Erdemir - material scientist^[3][4]
• Doğan Kuban (born 1926) - architectural historian
• Emin Halid Onat (1908–1961) - architect of Anıtkabir and first dean of ITU School of Architecture^[5]
• Mehmet Toner - biomedical engineering scientist, professor at MIT
• Karl von Terzaghi (1883–1963) - mechanical engineer, founder of soil mechanics

Art

• Funda Arar (born 1975) - pop singer
• Oğuz Atay (1934–1977) - novelist^[6]
• Berke Hatipoğlu (born 1976) - architect, guitarist of the rock band Redd
• Erkan Oğur (born 1954) - musician
• Ziynet Sali - ainger
• Ahmet Yalçınkaya (born 1963) - poet

Sports

Çağla Kubat

• Çağla Kubat - windsurfer
• Zehra Öktem - Olympic archer

Political activists

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

Others

• Behruz Çinici - architect of METU Ankara Campus
• Mehmet Gümüşburun - bureaucrat
• Sabiha Gürayman - first Turkish woman engineer
• Waleed A. Samkari - Commander of Royal Maintenance Corps (Jordan)

Dropouts

Orhan Pamuk

• 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. Ahmed Eringen, died on December 7, 2009 at the age of 88 (1966-1991, civil engineering and operations research)
3. http://www.ituimk.org/haber.php?id=95
4. http://www.transportation.anl.gov/experts/resumes/erdemir.pdf
5. http://www.mim.itu.edu.tr/tarihcekisiler/eonat.pdf
6. Oğuz Atay