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Çağatay
Çağatay is a Turkish masculine name. It is also used as a family name. Chagatai Khan ( Çağatay Han in Turkish) was a son of Genghis Khan. Chagatai ruled the Chagatai Khanate from 1226 to 1242 C.E. Given name * Akif Çağatay Kılıç (born 1976), Turkish politician and government minister * Çağatay Ulusoy (born 1990), Turkish model and actor Surname * Ali Rıfat Çağatay (1867–1935), Turkish composer * Cafer Çağatay (1899–1991), Turkish footballer * Ergun Çağatay, Turkish photojournalist * Mustafa Çağatay, former prime minister of Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus See also * Chagatai (other) * Chughtai The Chughtai Moghols or Chughtai Mughals ( chg, Çağatay Moghul, ur, ) are descendants and followers of Chaghtai Khan (the second son of Genghis Khan and the founder of Chaghtai Khanate) in South Asia (modern-day Pakistan). They migrated to th ..., further information * Kagatay (other) {{DEFAULTSORT:Cagatay Turkish-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ergun Çağatay
Ergun Çağatay was a Turkish photographer and photo-journalist of international renown. A professional photo-reporter working free lance for major international news agencies, his life changed dramatically when he was badly wounded in 1983 during the ASALA attack on the Turkish Airlines counter at the Orly airport outside of Paris. His later growing interest in Central Asia led to his publishing ''Turkic-Speaking Peoples: 1500 Years of Art And Culture from Inner Asia to the Balkans'' in 2006. Early life Çağatay was born in İzmir on 15 January 1937 to Nazif Çağatay, a lawyer and later senator from the Republican People's Party and his wife Kamran, a housewife. He studied at Robert College in Istanbul from the age of eleven onwards, and upon graduation entered the Faculty of Law at Istanbul University at the instigation of his father, although he himself wished to study painting. Nevertheless, deciding he did not wish to practice law, he got a job in an advertising firm in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |