List of Turkish Germans

• , political scientist; co-founder of the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights • Ufuk Akcigit, Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago • Gülşen Aktaş, educator • Ian F. Akyildiz, Chair Professor in Telecommunications • , Professor of Computer Science at Technische Universität Berlin • , sociologist; Professor at the University of Frankfurt am Main • Götz Aly, journalist, historian and political scientist • , social scientist; lecturer at the HafenCity University Hamburg • , legal scholar and founding member of Dokuz Eylül University • Ülkü Azrak, Professor of Political Sciences • Yaşar Bilgin, doctor and politician; co-founder and chairman of the Turkish-German Health Foundation • , doctor and art collector (Turkish father and German mother) • , psychiatrist • , co-founder of Qiagen • , Associate Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Waterloo • , sociologist • , political scientist • , ergonomist; editor-in-chief of the scientific journal Behaviour & Information Technology • , teaches at the University of Cologne • , president of Technische Universität Berlin • , founder of the Ararat-Verlag publishing house • , linguist and educational scientist • , psychologist and sociologist • Semra Eren-Nijhar, sociologist • , architect • Ali Ertürk a neuroscientist, inventor, He is the director of a new Helmholtz Institute on Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (iTERM) in Munich • , doctor and philosopher • , Professor of Cardiology • , Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Siegen • , physician • , Germanist (Turkish father and German mother) • Alexander Görlach, senior research associate at Cambridge University • Zümrüt Gülbay-Peischard, Professor of Business Law at the Berlin School of Economics and Law • Onur Güntürkün, Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience at Ruhr University Bochum • Dilek Gürsoy, heart surgeon; the first female surgeon in Europe to implant an artificial heart • , Professor of Law at the University of Hagen • , Professor of Turkish Literature at the University of Duisburg-Essen (1998–2009) • , philosopher and internist • , Turkologist; Vice President for Internationality and Diversity at the University of Bremen (2011–17) • Necla Kelek, feminist and social scientist • , Professor of Architecture and Civil Engineering at the Anhalt University of Applied Sciences • Caghan Kizil, neuroscientist and geneticist • , social scientist; managing director of Allianz Kulturstiftung (Turkish father and Macedonian mother) • , sociologist; Professor at Leibniz Universität Hannover • , cardiologist • , historian and expert on the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey • , Professor of Engineering at the Institute for Mechanical Engineering / Materials Science at the Ruhr West University of Applied Sciences • , Vice President of the University of Kassel (1986–90) • , doctor and former politician • , historian • , chemist • , geoscientists and Professor of Hydrogeology at the Free University of Berlin • , dentist; awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit in 2007 • Ziya Saylan, former president of the European Academy of Cosmetic Surgery • , Germanist, ancient historian, writer and translator • Uğur Şahin, Professor of Experimental Oncology at the University of Mainz; co-founder of BioNTech which developed the first approved messenger RNA-based vaccine against COVID-19 • Faruk Şen, former director of the Stiftung für Türkeistudien und Integrationsforschung and professor at the University of Essen • , literary scholar • , founder of SRH Berlin University of Applied Sciences • Sabriye Tenberken, tibetologist and co-founder of the organisation Braille Without Borders • , Turkologist • , Professor of Experimental Physics at the TU Dortmund University • Sefaattin Tongay, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Arizona State University • , Professor of Educational Sciences at Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts • , director of the Zentrum für Islamische Theologie (Universität Tübingen) at the University of Tübingen • Özlem Türeci, physician and scientist; Privatdozentin at Johannes Gutenberg University; co-founder of BioNTech which developed the first approved messenger RNA-based vaccine against COVID-19 • , political scientist • , Professor of Islamic Studies at the Osnabrück University • , psychologist; head of the Foundation Center for Turkish Studies and Integration Research • , Professor for Urban Development and Planning Practice at the Technical University of Cologne • , doctor; he received the Order of Merit of Berlin in 1993 • , Professor of Music Theory at the Robert Schumann Hochschule • , ethnologist • , Professor and Director of the Research Center for Turkish Law at the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg • , political scientist • , Germanist and literary critic (Turkish father and German mother) • , economist and sociologist; director of Harriet Taylor Mill Institute for Economics and Gender Studies at the Berlin School of Economics and Law • , Professor of Sociology; Director for Berlin Institute of Migration Research at the Humboldt University of Berlin (2023–25) • , Professor of German at Trakya University ==Arts and literature==