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Selçuk (name)
Selçuk, sometimes anglicized as Selcuk, Seljuk, or Seljuq, is a common masculine Turkish given name. It is the modern Turkish form of ''Seljuq'' or ''Seljuk'', the name of the eponymous founder of the Seljuq dynasty. The name was used as a surname from the early 20th century and became popular as a given name by the mid 20th century. Given name * Selçuk (warlord), Turkish warlord, founder of the Seljuq dynasty * Selçuk Alibaz (born 1989), Turkish footballer * Selçuk Altun (born 1950), Turkish writer, publisher, and retired banking executive * Selçuk Aydın (born 1983), Turkish boxer * Selçuk Baştürk (born 1986), Turkish footballer * Selçuk Dereli (born 1969), Turkish football referee * Selçuk Eker (born 1991), Turkish amateur boxer * Selçuk İnan (born 1985), Turkish footballer * Selçuk Şahin (footballer born 1981) (born 1981), Turkish footballer who plays for Fenerbahçe * Selçuk Şahin (footballer born 1983) (born 1983), Turkish footballer who plays for Ord ... [...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] |
