[1] Turgut Uyar was born in Ankara on 4 August 1927 as the fifth of the six children of Fatma Hanım and Hayri Bey.
His father served as a squadron leader in the army and his mother was a housewife.
He married Yezdan Şener when he was going to university and he had three children, Semiramis, Tunga and Şeyda, from this marriage.
He served as a personnel officer in Posof, Terme and Ankara.
After moving to Istanbul, he married Tomris Uyar in 1969.