[monoideism]

The Ottoman empire ended in 1922. He's 55. That math just doesn't add up.

Perhaps you mean the Turkish Republic?

[kingofpandora]

İskenderun - and all of Hatay province - became part of Turkey just before the Second World War, so well after the end of the Ottoman Empire.

The math still doesn't add up though if Şahin is aged 55, since at the time of his birth it really was part of Turkey.