Ali is a common unisex name.
Murat is a French surname and Turkish male given name, derived from the Arabic Murad. Its Arabic meaning can be translated roughly into "wanted", "desired", "wished for", "yearned", or "goal".
Mustafa is one of the names of Prophet Muhammad, and the name means "chosen, selected, appointed, preferred", used as an Arabic given name and surname. Mustafa is a common name in the Muslim world.
Yusuf is a male name meaning "God increases". It is the Arabic equivalent of the Hebrew name Yosef and the English name Joseph. It is widely used in many parts of the world by Arabs of all Abrahamic religions, including Middle Eastern Jews, Arab Christians, and Muslims.
Mehmed is the most common Bosnian and Turkish form of the Arabic 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.
Halil is a common Turkish male given name. It is equivalent to the Arabic given name and surname Khalil or its variant Khaleel.
Derviş is the Turkish and Bosnian (Derviš) spelling of the Persian and Arabic word "darwīš" (درويش), referring to a Sufi aspirant. The word appears as a given name and surname in various forms throughout Arabic, Bosnian, Persian, and Turkish-speaking communities. An etymology for the name is given in the Oxford Dictionary of American Family Names:
Status name for a Sufi holy man, from Persian and Turkish derviş ‘dervish’, a member of a Sufi Muslim religious order, from Pahlavi driyosh meaning ‘beggar’, ‘one who goes from door to door’.
İzzet is a Turkish given name for males and a surname. Outside Turkey the name is sometimes written as Izzet. Notable people with the name İzzet or Izzet include:
Kemal is a Turkish masculine given name which means fullness, perfection, maturity; corresponding to the Arabic Kamal and may refer to:
Ismet is a Turkish form of the Arabic name Ismat. Along with Turkish, the name is also seen in Albanian, Bosnian, and Macedonian. The name means "honesty" or "purity" and in classical "infallibility", "immaculate", "impeccability" and "faultlessness".
Bekir is a Turkish given name for males which comes from Abu Bakr the first Caliph of Islam.
Enver is both a masculine given name and a surname. In Turkish, Albanian, Bosnian and Crimean Tatar, it is the transliteration of the Arabic name Anwar, which means "luminous". Notable people with the name include:
Akın is a Turkish given name and surname, meaning "flood", "stream", or "attack", and may refer to:
Osman or Usman is the Turkish, Persian, Egyptian and Urdu, transliteration of the Arabic male given name Uthman.
Nadeem is an Arabic masculine given name. It means "companion", "confidant" or "friend". Originates from the plural word "Nadama""نَدامَى" which means, drink to forget. Nadim is the pourer of wine, the best friend.
Yaşar is a masculine Turkish given name, which also appears as a surname. In non-Turkish publications, the name would many times appear as Yasar.
Kurt or Kurd is a Turkish name and surname literally meaning "wolf".
Refik is a masculine given name of Arabic origin meaning friend, associate, husband, companion or fellow. It may refer to:
Sabahattin Öztürk is a Turkish wrestler. He won the gold medal 1993 World Wrestling Championships. He competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics and the 1996 Summer Olympics.
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