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Makbule Abasıyanık was a Turkish female writer and philanthropist.

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Ali Amiri was an Ottoman historian. He worked as a finance official and used his assignments to different towns to transcribe Arabic and Turkish inscriptions that he found. He sought out local histories and old documents, both historical and poetic. Through his endeavours he built a library of rare and unpublished manuscripts. These manuscripts augmented the National Library of Istanbul.

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Ahmet Refik Altınay was a Turkish historian, academic, writer and poet, who gave history lectures at Darülfünun after the First World War.

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Falih Rıfkı Atay was a Turkish journalist, writer and politician between 1923 and 1950.

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Mustafa Balel is a Turkish short story writer and novelist.

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Reteos Berberian, also known as Reteos Perperian, was an Ottoman Armenian educator, pedagogue, principal, writer, poet, and founder of the prestigious Armenian Berberian Varjaran school.

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Rıfat Osman Bey was a Turkish physician, writer and historian, who was one of the patriarchs of the pseudoscientific Sun Language Theory.

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Abdullah Bozkurt is a Turkish journalist. He was the bureau chief for the Gülen-aligned newspaper Today's Zaman.

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Süleyman Tarık Buğra was a Turkish journalist, novelist and short story author. He was well-known author at Republican literature in his country. He was honoured as a State Artist in 1991. Buğra is the father of scientist Ayşe Buğra.

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Behçet Kemal Çağlar was a Turkish poet, educator and nationalist politician.

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Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel was a leading Turkish poet, author and later politician.

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Peride Celal Yönsel, commonly known as Peride Celal or Peride Celâl, was a Turkish novelist and story writer. Her work has won major awards such as the Sedat Simavi Literature Award in 1977, and the Orhan Kemal Novel Prize in 1991.

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Zehra Çırak is a Turkish-German writer.

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Mehmet Culum is a contemporary Turkish novelist who was born in Çeşme, a town in western Turkey. He studied political sciences at the University of Ankara. Before starting an antique shop in his hometown, Culum worked as an IT consultant for some time in İzmir. After retiring in 1998, he began to explore the history of Western Turkey and especially the Çeşme Peninsula.

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Ahmet Muhip Dıranas was a leading Turkish poet and author.

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Şule Gürbüz is a Turkish author, poet and clockmaker who has worked for the Directorate of National Palaces of Turkey since 1997. Her master in antique clockmaking is Cemal Gürgen.

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Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar was a Turkish writer, civil servant, and politician.

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Azmiye Hami Güven was a Turkish novelist. A graduate of the Kandilli Kız Lisesi, she was one of the first Turkish woman writers of the Republican period. She is best known for Hemșire Nimet 1951.

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Rober Haddeciyan, also known as Rober Haddeler, is an Armenian writer, playwright, and since 1967 editor-in-chief of Marmara, an Armenian-language daily newspaper.

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Nevin Halıcı is a Turkish writer and lecturer of Turkish cuisine. She has published many cookbooks mostly in Turkish.

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Hasan Fehmi Bey was an Ottoman journalist, who was the editor-in-chief of Serbestî, an Ottoman newspaper owned by Mevlanzade Rifat Bey, in which he wrote articles against the newly emerging Committee of Union and Progress. He was murdered by unidentified assailants on the evening of April 6, 1909, as he was crossing the Galata Bridge in Istanbul.

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Hovhannes Hisarian was an Ottoman Armenian writer, novelist, archeologist, editor, and educator. He was considered the first Armenian romantic novelist.

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Yadé Kara is a Turkish-German writer.

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Diran Kelekian was an Ottoman Armenian journalist and professor at the Darülfünûn-u Şahâne. He was editor of two newspapers, Cihan and Sabah.

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Sami Kohen is a Turkish journalist and columnist. He has written regular columns about foreign policy for Milliyet since 1954.

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Cahit Külebi was a leading Turkish poet and author. He has an important place in contemporary Turkish poetry due to his attachment to folk poetry traditions. His poetry is enriched with simple yet ironic language, embellished with original descriptions.

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Nuray Lale is a Turkish-German writer and translator.

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Behçet Necatigil was a leading Turkish author, poet and translator.

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Kegham Parseghian, was an Armenian writer, teacher, editor, and journalist.

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Levon Pashalian, was an Armenian short story writer, journalist, editor, novelist, and politician.

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Cemâl Süreya was a Turkish poet and writer of Kurdish–Zaza descent.

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Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı was a Turkish poet and author.

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Gegham Ter-Karapetian (1865-1918), better known by his pen name Msho Gegham, is a renowned Armenian writer and politician.

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Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil was a Turkish author, poet, and playwright. A part of the Edebiyat-ı Cedide movement of the late Ottoman Empire, he was the founder of and contributor to many literary movements and institutions, including his flagship Servet-i Fünun journal. He was a strong critic of the Sultan Abdul Hamid II, which led to the censorship of much of his work by the Ottoman government. His many novels, plays, short stories, and essays include his 1899 romance novel Aşk-ı Memnu, which has been adapted into an internationally successful television series of the same name.