Armand Sağ- Turkish-Dutch, historian & Turkologist who lost his job in Netherlands because of denying the Armenian allegements...

Ferit Orhan Pamuk - (b. 1952 in Istanbul) Turkish novelist, the first Turkish Nobel Prize winner, best selling Turkish author. Teaches writing and literature in Columbia University. His latest novel is Masumiyet Müzesi (The Museum of Innocence). In 2005 in an interview he said: "Thirty thousand Kurds have been killed here, and a million Armenians. And almost nobody dares to mention that. So I do."  Because of these remarks he was subjected to hate compaign and forced to flee Turkey and when returned, faced charges under Article 301, which were later dropped under international pressure.

Aziz Nesin - (1915-1995) Turkish writer, humorist, author of many books, officer. Was jailed several times for political views. Satirized beurocracy, exposed economic inequities, and oppression of the common man. In 1972 he founded the Nesin Foundation, which would take each year four poor children that the foundation provided everything for until their completion of high school or vocational school.

Nesin led a dozen of intellectuals to protest military government after the 1980 military coup. 

He championed free speech, including criticism of Islam. In 1990s started translating Salman Rushdie´s Satanic Verses, which made him a target for radical islamists, who in 1993 in Sivas set a hotel on fire where Nesin and others were staying during an Alevi cultural festival. 37 people were killed.

He devoted his last years to fighting religious fundamentalism.

Mehmet Talat Paşa(1874-1921)--Ottoman diplomat, one of the leader of İttihat Terakki, Grand Vizier of State of Ottoman(1917) during WW1 & a freemason, renowned as the responsible of Armenian relocation after the Armenian rebellions. He was shot in the back by an Armenian in Berlin on 15th March of 1921. The murderer admitted committing the murder, after one and half day trial murderer was found innocent by German court due to he was being under the effect of epilepsy, similar to Armenian later who murdered Behdud Han Cevanşir on 18th July of 1921.

His mortal remains returned to Republic of Turkey on 1943 and was buried in Abide-i Hürriyet martyrdom. With a law accepted in 1926, a house and salary were assigned to his family by Turkish Republic. In 1931 Kemal Atatürk talked to his wife Hayriye, admitted that Turks had benefitted very much from the relocation during the War of Independence and promised her to return his mortal remains to Turkey. 

Tansu Çiller - (b. 1946 in Istanbul) Turkish economist and politician. First and only Turkish female prime minister. She studied economics, finished postdoctoral studies at Yale University and taught economics as a professor at several universities. In 1990 she joined the conservative True Path Party and served as the Minister of State in charge of economics in the coalition government. In 1993 she became the party leader and later the Prime Minister (from 1993-1996). Served as Foreign Affairs Minister between 1996-97. One of her achievents was modernizing Turkish army and getting PKK listed as a terrorist organization by the USA and EU.

She was later investigated on corruption charges, but cleared mainly due to  technicalities and at the end of 1998 the corruption files were covered up.

She is a member of the Council of Women World Leaders.

Aziz Nesin is my favorite. You have to include him He is so funny too.

Kurtdereli Mehmet Pehlivan(1864-1939)--Turkish wrestler, he lived in the village of Kurtdere of Balıkesir. He was one of the first wrestler implemented style known as greco roman wrestling today. He traveled many countries such as USA, France, the Netherlands and Great Britain, he fought all famous wrestlers of his time but he was never defeated(There are rumours he lost to Koca Yusuf when he was young wrestler). He was also wrestling champion of Kırkpınar.

Narrative: Once Atatürk invited him after one of his victory and signs a cheque for him amount of 1000 Lira with the intention of awarding him. Very good money at that time even could buy a big apartment. Afterwards Kurtdereli went to İş bank in order to cash the cheque, he took his money without any problem but was still waiting in front of the cash clerk;

Cash clerk: Why are you still waiting Pehlivan?

Kurtdereli: Will you not give the cheque back?

Cash clerk: No of course, it will remain with the bank.

Kurtdereli suprised & responded: Then take your money back and give me the cheque, there is sign of Kemal Atatürk on it.

hahahahaha

Seriously... A 25 year old guy, born and raised in Holland who was a student untill a year ago... And the fact that he was, as HE says, fired over this matter is important enough for you to put him in the same list as people like Ataturk, sultan Ahmet, and Sinan? You should check your forehead for a fever.

And I say as HE says, because he took this case to court. He said he was fired by the organization for denying the Armenian genocide. In Holland you can deny this all you want. So firing him for this would be illegal. He went to court in Utrecht, and the court found him to have brought FALSE documents to court. After this claims against Armand were brought to the police for bringing in false documents, for slander, and some other minor offenses.

http://74.125.77.132/search?q=cache:2YGVzawTGIsJ:www.tnserkin.nl/+Armand+Sag&cd=9&hl=nl&ct=clnk&gl=nl

(it´s in Dutch, sorry... use google translate or something )

I know you like to go beserk on the Armenian issue, but please keep using your head in this matter. This guy was fired because he and the organization didn´t work well anymore. He couldn´t imagine that they were actually not happy with HIM, so he thought it must have been about the Armenian thing. Made up some lies and went to court. In court, a TURKISH lawyer showed that his statements were false.

And, by the way, the organization that he was fired from actually holds demonstrations against the whole Armenian genocide issue, since they say it´s being used as a pressure point in political gains. They are not saying it ever happened.

See the second photo in this page.

Murat Bardakçı published some articles and a book using Talat Paşa´s so called black book.

Yeah, because i decided he is more important than some moron singers & models with his knowledge. Do you not think? And above all that was my opinion. He was in turkis newspapers and i thought he is famous enough. And barba, you should learn how to show respect other´s opinion instead of mocking. Is it your duty here to judge people´s choices?

Regarding his story with “ De Dagelijksestandaard”, he was warned and e-mailed about his writings and requested either apologize for what he had written or quit writing for the site. And that is enough for me to realize how this works work in the Netherlands. Is it also not true that he was warned and requested to apologize barba??