Notable People of Sivrihisar | SivrihisarX

The people behind a place.

Meet people born here, people who lived here and people whose work connects them with the district.

Folk culture and humour

Nasreddin Hoca

Humour that travels across generations.

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Scholarship and law

Hızır Bey

From Sivrihisar to Ottoman intellectual life.

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Sufism and literature

Aziz Mahmud Hüdâyi

A childhood connection with Sivrihisar.

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Literature and scholarship

Sinan Paşa

A distinctive voice in Turkish prose.

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Literary studies

Mehmet Kaplan

Reading literature through its texts.

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Metin Yurdanur

Art in the open air of his hometown.

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Sufism and culture

Şeyh Baba Yusuf

15th–16th centuries

A name in the town’s spiritual memory.

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Scholarship and calligraphy

Seyyid Şeyh Ahmed Şemseddin Efendi

19th–20th centuries

A carrier of learning and written culture.

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Different kinds of connection

The biographies distinguish birthplace, periods of residence, work and local cultural memory. Folk traditions are not presented as unquestioned historical facts.