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Altun is a Turkish surname meaning ''gold'' or ''golden''. Notable people with the surname include: * Berfin Altun (born 1999), Turkish female weightlifter * Gamze Altun (born 2003), Turkish female weightlifter *Hakan Altun (born 1972), Turkish singer * Meryem Altun (1976—2002), Turkish prisoner, who died on hunger strike * Selçuk Altun (born 1950), Turkish writer * Yunus Altun (born 1977), Turkish footballer See also *Altyn-Tagh Altyn-Tagh (also Altun Mountains or Altun Shan) is a mountain range in Northwestern China that separates the Eastern Tarim Basin from the Tibetan Plateau. The western third is in Xinjiang while the eastern part forms the border between Qinghai t ... (Altun Mountains) * Altun Ha, ruins of an ancient Mayan city in Belize References {{surname, Altun Turkish-language surnames ...
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Berfin Altun
Berfin Altun (born 1 November 1999) is a Turkish weightlifter competing in the women's –71 kg division. She is a member of Kocaeli Büyükşehir Belediyesi Kağıt Spor Kulübü. Major results Altun became silver medalist in the Clean and jerk event and in total at the 2016 European Junior & U23 Weightlifting Championships held in n Eilat, Israel. At the 2018 European Junior & U23 Weightlifting Championships in Zamość, Poland, she captured the gold medal in the 69 kg Clean& Jerk event. In 2019, she took the silver medal in the 71 kg Clean & Jerk event and the bronze medal at the Junior World Weightlifting Championships in Suva, Fiji. At the 2019 European Junior & U23 Weightlifting Championships in Bucharest, Romania, she won the bronze medal in the -64 kg Snatch event, and gold medals in the Clean & Jerk event, and became champion. She won the bronze medal in the Clean and jerk event at the 2021 European Weightlifting Championships held in Moscow Moscow is the C ...
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Gamze Altun
Gamze Altun (born 29 July 2003) is a Turkish weightlifter competing in the 45 kg division. She is a native of Tarsus, Mersin, southern Turkey. Sport career Altun took the siver medal in the 45 kg clean and jerk event at the 2023 European Weightlifting Championships in Yerevan, Armenia. At the 2024 European Weightlifting Championships in Sofia Sofia is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Bulgaria, largest city of Bulgaria. It is situated in the Sofia Valley at the foot of the Vitosha mountain, in the western part of the country. The city is built west of the Is ..., Bulgaria, she won the gold medal in the Clean & Jerk event with 92 kg and the silver medal in total with 157 kg. Her lift in Clean & Jerk became the new European U23 record. Gamze Altun ranked fifth in the women's 45 kg weightlifting category at the 2025 European Weightlifting Championships in Chisinau, Moldova, winning the fifth medal with 68 kg in the snatch, gold w ...
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Hakan Altun
Hakan Recep Altun (born 13 August 1972) is a Turkish singer, songwriter and instrumentalist. He was born in Istanbul. After elementary school, he got a place in the academy of music, where he completed his secondary, high and university education, assisted by his grandfather Hafız Zeki Altun. After graduation bachelor of arts in music, he continued his studies focusing on Traditional Turkish Music. In his second year of post-graduate studies, he quit to pursue a career as an instrumentalist in the Edirne State Choir, playing the lute. Before a break for mandatory military service in Ankara, he performed in the most popular clubs in Istanbul. He was part of the pop Pop or POP may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media * Pop music, a musical genre Artists * POP, a Japanese idol group now known as Gang Parade * Pop! (British group), a UK pop group * Pop! featuring Angie Hart, an Australian band Album ... band Aykut Hakan Ayşe before starting his solo career in 1998. ...
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Meryem Altun
Meryem Altun (1976 – April 1, 2002) was a Turkish prisoner who died on hunger strike A hunger strike is a method of non-violent resistance where participants fasting, fast as an act of political protest, usually with the objective of achieving a specific goal, such as a policy change. Hunger strikers that do not take fluids are .... She attended Umraniye high school, was a critic of the Turkish prison system, She was declared a martyr by the Revolutionary People's Liberation Front. Altun was in Umraniye prison at the time of a December 19, 2000 massacre of prisoners by prison guards. References External linksArticle on Meryem AltunStatement
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Selçuk Altun
Selçuk Altun (born 1950) is a Turkish writer, publisher and retired banking executive. Biography Born in Artvin, Turkey, in 1950, he graduated from the Management Department of Boğaziçi University. He began work in the finance sector in 1974 and was chairman of Yapi Kredi Bank, chairman of one of the Turkey's largest Internet company Superonline from its inception in 1994 and executive board director of the YKY (Yapı Kredi Publications), where he amassed a personal library of 9,000 volumes and published works by Louise Gluck and John Ashbery, before he retired in 2004 to pursue his writing career full-time. “My goal was to write a book by the age of 50”, he says. “Before that, I knew I needed to read, so I read some 4,000 books before I sat down to write. That, more than anything, gave me the confidence I needed.” His first novel ''Yalnızlık Gittiğin Yoldan Gelir'' (''Loneliness Comes from the Road You Go Down'') was published in 2001 and has been subsequently fo ...
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Yunus Altun
Yunus Altun (born 25 August 1977 in Eyüp, Istanbul, Turkey) is a Turkish former professional footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea .... He played as a striker. References 1977 births Living people People from Eyüp Turkish men's footballers Hatayspor footballers Kayserispor footballers Konyaspor footballers Çaykur Rizespor footballers Elazığspor footballers Malatyaspor footballers Diyarbakırspor footballers Bursaspor footballers Mardinspor footballers Kocaelispor footballers Turanspor footballers Karşıyaka S.K. footballers Bucaspor footballers Mersin Talim Yurdu footballers Altay S.K. footballers Footballers from Istanbul Men's association football forwards {{Turkey-footy-forward-stub ...
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Altyn-Tagh
Altyn-Tagh (also Altun Mountains or Altun Shan) is a mountain range in Northwestern China that separates the Eastern Tarim Basin from the Tibetan Plateau. The western third is in Xinjiang while the eastern part forms the border between Qinghai to the south and Xinjiang and Gansu to the north. Altun Shan is also the name of a mountain near the eastern end of the range, the highest point in Gansu. Etymology Altyn Tag means ''Gold Mountain'' in Turkic, and Jin Shan () is Chinese for '' Gold Mountain''. Geography A series of mountain ranges run along the northern edge of the Tibetan Plateau. In the west are the Kunlun Mountains. About halfway across the south side of the Tarim Basin, the Altyn-Tagh Range diverges northeast while the Kunluns continue directly east, forming a relatively narrow "V". Inside the "V" are a number of endorheic basins. The eastern end of the Altyn-Shan is near the Dangjin Pass on the Dunhuang-Golmud road in far western Gansu. East of the Altyn-T ...
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Altun Ha
Altun Ha is the name given to the ruins of an ancient Maya city in Belize, located in the Belize District about north of Belize City and about west of the shore of the Caribbean Sea. The site covers an area of about . Stones from the ruins of the ancient structures were reused for residential construction of the agricultural village of Rockstone Pond in modern times, but the ancient site did not come to the attention of archeologists until 1963. The Old Northern Highway connects Altun Ha to Belize's Northern Highway, and the site is accessible for tourism. The largest of Altun Ha's temple-pyramids, the "Temple of the Masonry Altars", is high. A drawing of this structure is the logo of Belize's leading brand of beer, " Belikin". Etymology According to the Belize Institute of Archaeology, the site's name means "Rockstone Water," and is a Yucatec Mayan approximation of the name of the nearby village of Rockstone Pond. In Yucatec Mayan, ''haltun'' is a stone water deposit o ...
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