İstanbulspor Kulübü is a Turkish football and sports club founded by Istanbul High School students in 1926. In 2004–05, they were relegated from the Turkish Süper Lig to the TFF First League. For many decades, it was the fourth most famous and well-developed professional football club in Istanbul, coming after Beşiktaş, Galatasaray, and Fenerbahçe. After being bought by the Uzan family in 1990, it has been repossessed by the government and resold to third parties.
Mehmet Aurélio is a football coach and former player, who played as a defensive midfielder.
Mehmet "Şifo" Özdilek is a Turkish football manager and former player. He is nicknamed "Şifo" after Belgian star Enzo Scifo with whom he shared a similar playing style.
Mehmet Yılmaz is a Turkish retired footballer.
Mehmet Topal is a Turkish professional football manager and former player, who is currently in charge of Liga I club Petrolul Ploiești. A defensive midfielder, he was nicknamed Örümcek for his ability to use his long legs to win loose balls or cut passes.
Mehmed is the most common Turkish form of the Arabic male name Muhammad and gains its significance from being the name of Muhammad, the prophet of Islam. Originally the intermediary vowels in the Arabic Muhammad were completed with an e in adaptation to Turkish phonotactics, which spelled Mehemmed, Mehemed, Mehmed and the name lost the central e over time. Final devoicing of d to t is a regular process in Turkish. The prophet himself is referred to in Turkish using the archaic version, Muhammed.
Çanakkale Dardanelspor Kulübü is a sports club located in Çanakkale, Turkey.
Billy Osman Mehmet is a professional footballer and the current captain of Alsancak Yeşilova SK in the KTFF Süper Lig, where he plays as a striker. Born in England, Mehmet represented England national football team at schoolboy level, and the Republic of Ireland U21 team.
The Özal family is a political family in Turkey, the most prominent member being Turgut Özal, the 8th President (1989–1993) and Prime Minister of Turkey (1983–1989). The family has been active in Turkish politics since the 1970s. Özal was a popular political figure in Turkey and founded the Motherland Party in 1983, which won the general elections of the same year. After his death in 1993, his son Ahmet Özal succeeded him as the de facto patriarch of the family.
Mehmet Ekici is a professional footballer who most recently played as a central midfielder for Fenerbahçe.
The Turkish Football Championship was a top-level football competition in Turkey. It was the first nationwide championship in Turkish football history. The championship was organised by the Turkish Football Federation. The tournament system was based on a knockout competition, contested between the winners of each of the country's regional leagues.
İstemi is not a common masculine Turkish given name. In Turkish, "İstemi" means "Conqueror of the Sky".
İstemihan is a common masculine Turkish given name. It is composed of two Turkish words: "İstemi" and "Han". "İstemi" means "Conquerror of the Sky" and it is a given name on its own whereas "Han" means "Ruler" or "King". Thus, "İstemihan" means "Conquerror of the Sky" or "Ruler of the Sky".
Türkan Rado was a Turkish professor of jurisprudence specializing in Roman law at Istanbul University. She was the first ever female professor of law in Turkey.
Mehmet Altıparmak is a Turkish professional football manager and former player. As a footballer, Altıparmak played as a midfielder.
Mehmet Ekşi is a Turkish former international football player and manager.
Ömer Akgün is a Turkish sport shooter specialized in 10 m air rifle event.
Ortabağ massacre was a bomb attack carried out by the Kurdistan Workers' Party on January 23, 1987 in the Ortabağ village of Uludere district of Şırnak, Turkey.
Arakonak is a town (belde) in Solhan District, Bingöl Province, Turkey. The town is populated by Kurds of the Xilan tribe and had a population of 2,601 in 2021.
