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Can (name)
Can () is a common Turkish, Azerbaijani and Circassian given name and surname, meaning ''spirit, life, soul ''or ''heart''. Turkish and Azerbaijani use is derived from the Persian word Jan ( Persian: جان) and Circassian use is derived from Circassian word Janberk. In Turkish, the name Can is pronounced similarly to the common English name John. Džan is a variant in use in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Given name First name * Can Akın (born 1983), Turkish basketball player * Can Arat (born 1984), Turkish footballer * Can Artam (born 1981), Turkish race car driver * Can Atilla (born 1969), Turkish composer and musician * Can Ayvazoğlu (born 1979), Turkish volleyball player * Can Bartu (1936–2019), Turkish basketball player, footballer and columnist * Pashanim (born 2000), German rapper of Kurdish descent whose real name is Can David Bayram * Can Bonomo (born 1987), Turkish pop singer * Can Dündar (born 1961), Turkish journalist, columnist and documentarian * Can Emre Yücel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turkish Language
Turkish ( , , also known as 'Turkish of Turkey') is the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages, a member of Oghuz languages, Oghuz branch with around 90 million speakers. It is the national language of Turkey and one of two official languages of Cyprus. Significant smaller groups of Turkish speakers also exist in Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Greece, other parts of Europe, the South Caucasus, and some parts of Central Asia, Iraqi Turkmen, Iraq, and Syrian Turkmen, Syria. Turkish is the List of languages by total number of speakers, 18th-most spoken language in the world. To the west, the influence of Ottoman Turkish language, Ottoman Turkish—the variety of the Turkish language that was used as the administrative and literary language of the Ottoman Empire—spread as the Ottoman Empire expanded. In 1928, as one of Atatürk's reforms in the early years of the Republic of Turkey, the Persian alphabet, Perso-Arabic script-based Ottoman Turkish alphabet was repl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Can Erdem
Can Erdem (born 8 June 1987 in Istanbul) is a Turkish footballer who currently plays as a striker for Kırşehir Belediyespor. Career Erdem had begun his career at a local club, Alanya Belediyespor, based in Antalya. He was trained there until 2005 before joining Beşiktaş. After a short spell, he was promoted to senior squad by French manager Jean Tigana in 2006. Erdem then joined Kocaelispor on loan in the 2007–08 season. At the end of the season, Kocaelispor was promoted to the Süper Lig. In the 2008–09 season, he returned to Beşiktaş and began to train with the senior squad again, under manager Ertuğrul Sağlam. However, he was loaned out to İzmir İzmir is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, third most populous city in Turkey, after Istanbul and Ankara. It is on the Aegean Sea, Aegean coast of Anatolia, and is the capital of İzmir Province. In 2024, the city of İzmir had ... club Altay. Honours Club ;Beşiktaş * Turkish Cup: 2006� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ömer Can Sokullu
Ömer Can Sokullu (born 14 August 1988) is a Turkish footballer who plays as a midfielder In the sport of association football, a midfielder takes an Glossary of association football terms#O, outfield position primarily in the middle of the pitch. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in t ... for Ergene Velimeşe. References External links * * * * 1988 births Sportspeople from Bolu 20th-century Turkish sportsmen 21st-century Turkish sportsmen Living people Turkish men's footballers Turkey men's youth international footballers Men's association football midfielders Pendikspor footballers İstanbul Başakşehir F.K. players Karşıyaka S.K. footballers Ümraniyespor footballers Sakaryaspor footballers Kırklarelispor footballers Süper Lig players TFF 1. Lig players TFF Second League players {{Turkey-footy-midfielder-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emre Can CoÅŸkun
Emre Can CoÅŸkun (born 7 June 1994) is a Turkish professional footballer who plays as a centre back for Amed. Career Galatasaray He was first selected in a Galatasaray matchday squad on 3 December 2013, remaining an unused substitute as they defeated Gaziantep BB in a penalty shootout after a 2–2 draw at the Türk Telekom Arena in the fourth round of the season's Turkish Cup. On 29 January 2014 he made his professional debut in the group stage of that competition, replacing Salih Dursun for the last 12 minutes of a 3–0 home win against Elazığspor. Three days before that, he was an unused substitute in a goalless league draw away to Gaziantepspor. On 12 February, again in the Cup group, he made his first start in a goalless home draw against Antalyaspor, making way for Guillermo Burdisso after 66 minutes. Galatasaray eventually won the trophy, but CoÅŸkun played no further part in the season. Loan to Denizlispor On 2 February 2015, he was loaned to Den ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asım Can Gündüz
Asım Can Gündüz (August 15, 1955 – June 24, 2016) was a Turkish rock and blues guitarist. He was also known as ''Awesome John'', especially outside Turkey, partly because his name is pronounced very much like Awesome (''Asım'') John (''Can''). Career Gündüz lived in New York City until the early 1980s as ''John Gundez''. There, he formed "Zacharia", a three-piece rock band playing his original material consisted of guitarist Harry Zaverdas who played bass, and various drummers during its existence. ''John Gundez'' auditioned and was selected along with Harry Zaverdas to portray/perform as Jimi Hendrix, on drums was Robert Gottfried http://robthedrummer.com/. They sold out four nights in New York City at The Bottom Line night club "Jimi and Janis Together Again" show which toured as far as Chicago's largest indoor amusement park. His career in the United States was cut short after family obligations forced him to return to Turkey at the height of his United States career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CoÅŸkun Can Aktan
Coşkun Can Aktan (born 1963) is a political economist and a professor at the Faculty of Economics and Management at Dokuz Eylül University in İzmir, Turkey. He is founder and honorary chairman of the Social Sciences Research Society. Aktan is a leading expert on the privatization of the Turkish economy, analyzing and writing on the movement of Turkey from a Government-owned corporation, statist to a Private sector, market economy from its early days, making Aktan an early and internationally known source of information on Turkey's move toward a Market economy, market-based economy. Coskun Can Aktan is widely considered one of the important Turkish intellectual and critical author in social sciences. Aktan's writing has often been explicitly critical of academia and electoralism in particular. He has published several books and numerous articles criticizing modern electoral democracies and advocating "demarchy" built mainly epistocracy, meritocracy, sortition and rotation. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Can Yaman
Can Yaman (born 8 November 1989) is a Turkish actor. He received a Golden Butterfly Award for Best Actor in a Romantic Comedy in 2018 for his role in ''Erkenci Kuş'' as well as Murex d'Or in 2019. In 2020, he received an international PRODU2020 nomination, and in 2021, a nomination for Best Actor in a Romantic Comedy at the Golden Butterfly Awards for his role in the series ''Bay Yanlış.'' Yaman has also starred in the TV shows ''Gönül İşleri'', ''İnadına Aşk'', ''Hangimiz Sevmedik'', and ''Dolunay''. He also won the 7th GQ Man of the Year Award 2019 and several international awards for his charitable initiatives. Early life Yaman was born on 8 November 1989 in Istanbul, Turkey. He is of Albanian origin on his father's side, his paternal grandfather grew up in Pristina and his paternal grandmother in Skopje. He is the nephew of football coach Fuat Yaman. Yaman studied at Bilfen College for primary school, then studied at the Liceo Italiano di Istanbul, where he fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Can Yücel
Can Yücel (; August 21, 1926 – August 12, 1999) was a Turkish poet noted for his use of colloquial language. Biography Can Yücel was the son of a former Minister of National Education, Hasan Âli Yücel, who left his mark on the history of education in Turkey, and a grandchild of an Ottoman sea captain who perished with the frigate '' Ertuğrul''. He studied Latin and Ancient Greek at Ankara University and Cambridge. He later worked as a translator at several embassies and in the Turkish language section five years of the BBC in London. After his return to Turkey in 1958, he briefly worked as a tourist guide in Bodrum and Marmaris and then lived in Istanbul, where he worked as a freelance translator and started writing poetry. Yucel was a poet with a keen political and social awareness. His poetry thrives on a strong combination of lyricism, jovial irony, and sarcasm. Because of his strongly critical poems, he was imprisoned several times. Yucel was certainly one of the mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Can Togay
Can Togay (; born August 27, 1955), also known as János Can Togay, is a Hungarian film director, screenwriter, actor, poet, producer, cultural manager and cultural diplomat. Biography Can Togay was born the son of Turkish parents. He spent his childhood in Germany. In 1969, he joined the Péter Halász troupe. Between 1973 and 1978, he studied on the German and English faculty of Eötvös Loránd University, followed by two years of post-graduate work on German-French comparative linguistics under Jean-Marie Zemb of the Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris. He finished in 1980. In 1984, he graduated from the faculty of direction of the SzÃnház- és Filmművészeti FÅ‘iskola (College of Theatrical and Video Arts) in Budapest as the student of Zoltán Fábri. In 1991 he moved to Finland Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Can Themba
Daniel Canodoise "Can" Themba (21 June 1924 – 8 September 1967) was a South African short-story writer. Biography Themba was born in Marabastad, near Pretoria, but wrote most of his work in Sophiatown, Johannesburg, South Africa. The town was destroyed under the provisions of the apartheid Group Areas Act, which reassigned ethnic groups to new areas. He was a student at Fort Hare University College, where he received an English degree (first-class) and a teacher's diploma. After moving to Sophiatown, he tried his hand at short-story writing. Temba entered the first short story contest of '' Drum'' (a magazine for urban black people concentrating mainly on investigative journalism), which he won. He subsequently worked for ''Drum'', where he became one of the "Drum Boys," together with Henry Nxumalo, Bloke Modisane, Todd Matshikiza, Stan Motjuwadi and Casey Motsisi. They were later joined by Lewis Nkosi and Nat Nakasa. This group lived by the dictum: "Live fast, die ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Can Öncü
Can Alexander Öncü (born 26 July 2003) is a Turkish Motorcycle racing, motorcycle racer. After spending the 2019 Moto3 season, 2019 season in Moto3, for 2020 Supersport World Championship, 2020 and 2021 Supersport World Championship, 2021, he raced in the Supersport World Championship, World Supersport with Turkish Racing Team, a new venture headed by Turkish former racer Kenan Sofuoğlu and supported by Pucetti Kawasaki and Orelac Racing, Öncü continued, making 2024 his fifth year with the same team. After a change in regulations during 2018,Red Bull Rookies Champion eligible for Moto3™ ride in 2018 MotoGP.com News Retrieved 16 December 2018 he became the youngest Grand Prix motorcycle racing winner when he won the 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Can Maxim Mutaf
Can Maxim Mutaf (; born January 9, 1991 in Maltepe, Istanbul, Turkey) is a Turkish-Russian professional basketball player for Bahçeşehir Koleji of the Basketbol Süper Ligi (BSL). Professional career Mutaf began his career with Fenerbahçe Istanbul in the 2006–07 season. It was around this time that he became the second-youngest player in Euroleague history to start there, behind only Aleksandar Ugrinoski in terms of age. He spent the 2009–10 season on loan In finance, a loan is the tender of money by one party to another with an agreement to pay it back. The recipient, or borrower, incurs a debt and is usually required to pay interest for the use of the money. The document evidencing the deb ... with FMV Isiskspor Istanbul in the Turkish 2nd Division. In 2011, he moved to Mersin BB. He returned to Fenerbahçe Istanbul for the 2012–13 season. In January 2013, he joined Pınar Karşıyaka. For the 2013–14 season, he moved to Trabzonspor. He then joine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
