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Akpınar - Panoramio - Emre Akçaat
Akpınar (a Turkish toponym meaning "white spring" or "white fountain") may refer to: People * Ismet Akpınar (born 1995), German basketball player *Mehmet Akpınar (born 1940), Turkish fencer *Metin Akpınar (born 1941), Turkish actor Places * Akpınar, Adıyaman, a village in the central district of Adıyaman Province, Turkey * Akpınar, Alaca *Akpınar, Bartın, a village in the central district of Bartın Province, Turkey * Akpınar, Bayat, a village in the district of Bayat, Afyonkarahisar Province, Turkey * Akpınar, Başmakçı, a village in the district of Başmakçı, Afyonkarahisar Province, Turkey * Akpınar, Bayramiç * Akpınar, Besni, a village in the district of Besni, Adıyaman Province, Turkey * Akpınar, Biga *Akpınar, Borçka, a village in the district of Borçka, Artvin Province, Turkey * Akpınar, Bozüyük, a village in the district of Bozüyük, Bilecik Province, Turkey * Akpınar, Çameli * Akpınar, Çermik * Akpınar, Cumayeri * Akpınar, Daday, a villag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turkish Language
Turkish ( , ), also referred to as Turkish of Turkey (''Türkiye Türkçesi''), is the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages, with around 80 to 90 million speakers. It is the national language of Turkey and Northern Cyprus. Significant smaller groups of Turkish speakers also exist in Iraq, Syria, Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Greece, the Caucasus, and other parts of Europe and Central Asia. Cyprus has requested the European Union to add Turkish as an official language, even though Turkey is not a member state. Turkish is the 13th most spoken language in the world. To the west, the influence of 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 Ottoman Turkish alphabet was replaced with a Latin alphabet. The distinctive characteristics of the Turk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
