User:Jnnc19/List of German people of Turkish descent

This is a list of notable individuals of Turkish ancestry who are born, grew up and/or live in Germany.

The list does not include Kurds, apart from those who are partly of Turkish and non-Kurdish origin (for example if someone has a Turkish and a Kurdish parent). For Kurdish people see: List of German people of Kurdish descent.

Musician


German-speaking rapper (male)


 * Kool Savas
 * Haftbefehl (half Kurdish)
 * Mero
 * Summer Cem
 * Ufo361
 * Eko Fresh (half Kurdish)
 * Apache 207
 * Capo (half Kurdish)
 * Gringo
 * (with Azeri roots)
 * Alpa Gun
 * Bass Sultan Hengzt
 * (also singer)
 * Yung Kafa
 * Kücük Efendi
 * (half Kurdish)
 * (also singer)
 * (half Kurdish & Armenian)
 * Erencan
 * Batu
 * (consisting of Rokko81 and Atillah78)
 * Ali471
 * Pashanim
 * MOK
 * Maestro
 * Baler
 * Samarita
 * Divoe
 * Ercandize
 * Cengiz
 * Luqe (Aramean)
 * Mehmet & Murat
 * Massaka
 * Nanik
 * Sami51
 * Beto
 * Hemso
 * Anonym
 * Maho47
 * Billstedt Bilal
 * Azab Ata
 * M-Jahid
 * Melekai
 * UKT
 * Elbabo
 * Mazer
 * Sultan Tunc
 * Rako
 * Hakan Abi
 * Maho47
 * Billstedt Bilal
 * Azab Ata
 * M-Jahid
 * Melekai
 * UKT
 * Elbabo
 * Mazer
 * Sultan Tunc
 * Rako
 * Hakan Abi
 * Hakan Abi
 * Hakan Abi
 * Hakan Abi
 * Hakan Abi
 * Hakan Abi

German-speaking rapper (female)
 * (also singer)
 * Melisa Toprakçı / MEL (also singer)
 * Xiara (also singer)
 * Melisa Carolina (also singer)
 * Berivan Bıçakçı (also singer)
 * Yasmin Ayhan (half Kurdish)
 * Genuva (half Kurdish)
 * Lady Bitch Ray
 * Neray
 * Neray

Turkish-speaking rapper
 * Cartel (group)
 * Islamic Force (group)
 * Da Crime Posse (group)
 * Killa Hakan

German-speaking singer
 * Muhabbet (has also released many Turkish songs)
 * Apache 207 (also rap artist)
 * (rap & singing)
 * Xiara (rap & singing)
 * Elif Demirezer
 * Bahar Kızıl (has also released many English songs)
 * - DSDS Finalist 2014
 * Joana Kesenci (Aramean) - DSDS Finalist 2019
 * Daniel Ceylan (Aramean) - DSDS Finalist 2014
 * - DSDS Finalist 2017
 * Melisa Toprakçı / MEL (rap & singing)
 * Melisa Carolina (rap & singing)
 * Berivan Bıçakçı (rap & singing)
 * Mert Gökmen
 * Berivan Bıçakçı (rap & singing)
 * Mert Gökmen

Turkish-speaking singer
 * Tarkan Tevetoğlu
 * Muhabbet (has also released many German songs)
 * İsmail YK
 * Hasibe Turhan
 * Derya Ükmez
 * Kadr
 * Enes
 * Aylin Aslım
 * Esra Dalfidan
 * Atiye Deniz
 * Rafet El Roman
 * Pamela Spence
 * Esraworld

English-speaking singer
 * Bahar Kızıl (has also released many German songs)
 * Aydo Abay
 * Ateed
 * Esra Dalfidan
 * Martin Kesici
 * Alev Lenz
 * Özay Fecht
 * Elif Batman - DSDS 7th place 2014

Rest
 * Turgay Hilmi
 * Benyamin Sönmez
 * DJ Quicksilver
 * DJ Sakin
 * Mousse T.
 * Akın Eldes
 * Ozan Musluoğlu
 * Muhammed Suiçmez
 * Rüya Taner

Athletes
Combat sport
 * Firat Arslan
 * Cengiz Koç
 * Asiye Özlem Şahin
 * Hülya Şahin
 * Sinan Şamil Sam
 * Oktay Urkal
 * Mithat Bayrak
 * Salih Avci
 * Emin Boztepe
 * Emin Boztepe

Basketball
 * İsmet Akpınar
 * Mithat Demirel

Billiard
 * Gülşen Degener

Ice Hockey
 * Yasin Ehliz
 * Sinan Akdağ

Hockey
 * Timur Oruz
 * Selin Oruz

Rugby
 * Mustafa Güngör

Skiing
 * Duygu Ulusoy

Taekwondo
 * Servet Tazegül

Volleyball
 * Can Ayvazoğlu

Football (male)
 * Mesut Özil
 * İlkay Gündoğan
 * Emre Can
 * Mehmet Scholl
 * Hamit Altıntop
 * Halil Altıntop
 * Nuri Şahin
 * Hakan Çalhanoğlu
 * Ömer Toprak
 * Serdar Tasci
 * Kerem Demirbay
 * Suat Serdar
 * Yıldıray Baştürk
 * Malik Fathi
 * Mustafa Doğan
 * Tolgay Arslan
 * Yunus Mallı
 * Gökhan Töre
 * Kaan Ayhan
 * Cenk Tosun
 * Kenan Karaman
 * Nazim Sangaré
 * Güven Yalçın
 * Berkay Özcan
 * Hasan Ali Kaldırım
 * Levin Öztunalı
 * Salih Özcan
 * Mehmet Ekici
 * Tayfun Korkut
 * Volkan Arslan
 * Ogün Temizkanoğlu
 * Olcay Şahan
 * Serhat Akin
 * Ümit Davala
 * Tunay Torun
 * Tayfur Havutçu
 * Umit Karan
 * İlhan Mansız
 * Hakan Balta
 * Ceyhun Gülselam
 * Ali Güneş
 * Serdar Güneş
 * Alper Akçam
 * Mehmet Akgün
 * Şahin Aygüneş
 * Serhat Akın
 * Erhan Albayrak
 * Selçuk Alibaz
 * Ünal Alpuğan
 * Salih Altın
 * Tevfik Altındağ
 * Hakan Aslantaş
 * Serkan Atak
 * İbrahim Aydemir
 * Selim Aydemir
 * Semih Aydilek
 * Erhan Aydın
 * Necat Aygün
 * Onur Ayık
 * Sezer Badur
 * Alper Balaban
 * Orkan Balkan
 * Barbaros Barut
 * Atif Bashir
 * Engin Baytar
 * Ferhat Bıkmaz
 * Ali Bilgin
 * Oguzhan Biyik
 * Gökhan Bozkaya
 * Mehmet Boztepe
 * Erol Bulut
 * Hamza Çakir
 * Serkan Çalik
 * Gökhan Çalışal
 * Nizamettin Çalışkan
 * Müslüm Can
 * Ahmet Cebe
 * Musa Celik
 * Ferhat Cerci
 * Bilal Çubukçu
 * Ersin Demir
 * Deniz Doğan
 * Hüzeyfe Doğan
 * Ahmet Dursun
 * Alparslan Erdem
 * Ömer Erdoğan
 * Sertan Eser
 * Ayhan Gezen
 * Berkant Göktan
 * Cenk Güvenç
 * Sercan Güvenışık
 * Özer Hurmacı
 * Uğur İnceman
 * Cenk İşler
 * Fuat Kalkan
 * Cihan Kaptan
 * Aydın Karabulut
 * Cem Karaca
 * Ümit Karan
 * Arif Karaoğlan
 * Özgür Kart
 * Burhanettin Kaymak
 * Oğuzhan Kefkir
 * Umut Kekıllı
 * Erdal Keser
 * Polat Keser
 * Erdal Kılıçaslan
 * Ferhat Kıskanç
 * Süleyman Koç
 * Celaleddin Koçak
 * Guido Koçer
 * Umut Koçin
 * Bahattin Köse
 * Tevfik Köse
 * Oktay Kuday
 * Burakcan Kunt
 * Ahmet Kuru
 * Taygun Kuru
 * Ersen Martin
 * Cemil Mengi
 * Patrick Mölzl
 * Barış Özbek
 * Ufuk Özbek
 * Furkan Özçal
 * Abdulkadir Özgen
 * Mustafa Özkan
 * Cihan Özkara
 * Yasin Öztekin
 * Aykut Öztürk
 * Emre Öztürk
 * Erkan Öztürk
 * Sezer Öztürk
 * Tayfun Pektürk
 * Ahmet Sağlam
 * Mahir Sağlık
 * Kenan Şahin
 * Murat Salar
 * Sercan Sararer
 * Adem Sarı
 * Halil Savran
 * Tekin Sazlog
 * Eren Şen
 * Yusuf Soysal
 * Abdullah Elyasa Süme
 * Aytaç Sulu
 * Turgay Tapu
 * Selim Teber
 * Murat Tosun
 * Tufan Tosunoğlu
 * İbrahim Türkkan
 * Suat Türker
 * Volkan Ünlü
 * Taner Yalçın
 * Volkan Yaman
 * Zafer Yelen
 * Deniz Yılmaz
 * Mahmut Yilmaz
 * Sefa Yılmaz
 * Mehmet Yozgatlı

Football (female)
 * Sara Doorsoun
 * Hasret Kayıkçı
 * Aycan Yanaç
 * Melike Pekel
 * Dilan Ağgül
 * Selin Dişli
 * Arzu Karabulut
 * Ecem Cumert
 * Fatma Kara
 * Fatma Işık
 * Ebru Uzungüney
 * Feride Bakır
 * Esra Sibel Tezkan

Football managers
 * Taşkın Aksoy
 * Cem Efe
 * Muhsin Ertuğral
 * Engin Firat
 * Bahtiyar Can Vanlı
 * Soner Uysal

Politicians

 * Cem Özdemir
 * Özcan Mutlu
 * Ekin Deligöz
 * Aydan Özoğuz
 * Cemile Giousouf
 * Mahmut Özdemir
 * Filiz Polat
 * Lale Akgün
 * Ismail Ertug
 * Hakkı Keskin
 * Vural Öger
 * Aygül Özkan
 * Dilek Kalayci
 * Aygül Özkan
 * Dilek Kalayci

TV & filming
Actors (male)
 * Fahri Yardım
 * Erdoğan Atalay
 * Erol Sander
 * Sinan Akkuş
 * Sinan Albayrak
 * Erden Alkan
 * Tayfun Bademsoy
 * Baki Davrak
 * Ercan Durmaz
 * Erhan Emre
 * Demir Gökgöl
 * Arman İnci
 * Aykut Kayacık
 * Mehmet Kurtuluş
 * Tekin Kurtuluş
 * Adnan Maral
 * Denis Moschitto
 * Özgür Özata
 * Ercan Özçelik
 * Oktay Özdemir
 * Okan Patirer
 * Haluk Piyes
 * Tim Seyfi
 * Hilmi Sözer
 * Birol Ünel
 * Haydar Zorlu
 * Numan Acar
 * Karim Günes

Actresses
 * Sibel Kekilli
 * Almila Bağrıaçık
 * Sıla Şahin
 * Aslı Bayram
 * Jale Arıkan
 * Renan Demirkan
 * Şebnem Dönmez
 * Selma Ergeç
 * Fahriye Evcen
 * Jasmin Gerat
 * Lale Karci
 * Nursel Köse
 * Emine Sevgi Özdamar
 * Meral Perin
 * Nezâ Selbuz
 * Türkiz Talay
 * İdil Üner
 * Belhe Zaimoğlu
 * Özay Fecht
 * Özay Fecht

Film directors, producers & screenwriters
 * Fatih Akın
 * Özgür Yıldırım
 * Şermin Langhoff
 * Bülent Akinci
 * Tevfik Başer
 * Neco Celik
 * Nesrin Şamdereli
 * Yasemin Şamdereli
 * Mennan Yapo
 * Numan Acar
 * Bora Dağtekin

Comedians
 * Kaya Yanar
 * Bülent Ceylan
 * Django Asül
 * Django Asül
 * Django Asül

TV personalities & presenters
 * Pinar Atalay
 * Nazan Eckes
 * Gülcan Kamps

Influencer, YouTuber & Blogger
German-speaking Youtuber
 * - over 2.3 million subscribers
 * - over 1.5 million subscribers
 * - YouTuber for a long time, now he only does rap music, over 1.2 million subscribers
 * Mert Matan - over 1 million subscribers
 * Nihan - over 0.8 million subscribers
 * Hatice Schmidt - over 0.7 million subscribers
 * CanBroke - ca. 0.7 million subscribers
 * Denizon - over 0.6 million subscribers
 * Dilara - also most successful Turkish-German Instagram-Influecer with ca. 3 million followers on Instagram & over 0.5 million subscribers on YouTube
 * Saftiges Gnu- over 0.5 million subscribers
 * itsAssiTV - over 0.4 million subscribers
 * Yavi TV - ca. 0.4 million subscribers
 * Dilara Duman - over 0.3 million subscribers
 * Tuncay & Ebru Demir - over 0.3 million subscribers
 * - stand-up-comedian, but she also does regular comedy videos on YouTube
 * - part of the former Comedy-trio Y-Titty (over 3,1 million subscribers on YouTube, a long time the German YouTube channel with the most subscribers, dissolution in 2015)
 * - part of Comedy-trio ApeCrime (over 2.4 million subscribers on YouTube)
 * Gülcan Çetin - part of the channel Datteltäter (ca. 0.4 million subscribers)
 * Esra Karakaya - part of the channel Datteltäter (ca. 0.4 million subscribers)
 * Bilgili Üretmen - pro-AKP political blogger and YouTuber
 * Gizem Shakier - Hip-hop interviewer & radio host
 * Tolga Akar - Hip-hop interviewer & radio host
 * Der Ömsen

Rest
 * - journalist, blogger & web activist of Turkish descent
 * Sümeyye Arslan - blogger of Turkish descent, ca. 0.5 million followers on Instagram, her followers are international and almost all of them are from other countries
 * Esraworld

Rest

 * Feridun Zaimoğlu - writer
 * Kemal Kurt - writer
 * Akif Pirinçci - writer
 * Akdemir Udenta - writer
 * Sabri Çakir - poet
 * Deniz Yücel - journalist
 * Hakan Albayrak - journalist
 * Sertan Baykara - journalist
 * Cevat Yerli - video game designer
 * Necla Kelek - social scientist
 * Sabriye Tenberken - Social worker
 * Murad Sezer - photographer
 * Asuman Krause - model
 * Jennifer Şebnem Schaefer - model
 * Aslı Bayram - model (Miss Germany 2005)
 * Leyla Tuğutlu - model (Miss Turkey 2008)
 * Necmi Sönmez - art critic
 * Bahtiyar Duysak - businessperson
 * Kemal Derviş - economist
 * Kemal Şahin - entrepreneur
 * Murat Kurnaz - Guantanamo detainee
 * Metin Kaplan - religious leader
 * 36 Boys - gang
 * Kemal Ergün
 * Murat Kayman
 * Mustafa Yeneroğlu
 * Eren Güvercin
 * Tayfun Keltek
 * Cemal Çetin
 * Mehmet Alp Çelebi
 * Seyda Taygur
 * Seyda Taygur