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Filiz Sivrikaya Özdemir
Filiz is a common feminine Turkish given name. In Turkish, "Filiz" means "Sprout", "Blossom" and/or "to Flower"; derived from the Greek word "fillís" (φυλλίς). Given name * Filiz Ahmet (born 1981), Macedonian-Turkish stage and screen actress * Filiz Akın (1943–2025), Turkish film actress, writer and television presenter * Filiz Ali (born in 1937), Turkish pianist and musicologist * Filiz Dinçmen (born 1939), First Turkish female Ambassador to a foreign country * Filiz Hyusmenova (born 1966), Bulgarian politician of Turkish descent and Member of the European Parliament * Filiz İşikırık (born 1993), Turkish footballer * Filiz Kadoğan (born 1982), Turkish shot putter * Filiz Kocaman (born 1985), Turkish volleyball player * Filiz Koç (born in 1986), Turkish-German footballer, model and sports reporter * Filiz Koçali (born 1958), Turkish politician * Filiz Polat (born 1978), Turkish-German politician * Filiz Taçbaş (born 1964), Turkish actress and former ... [...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] |
Filiz Kocaman
Filiz Kocaman (born February 23, 1985, in Tokat) is a Turkish volleyball player. She is 178 cm and plays as libero. She has been playing for Fenerbahçe Women's Volleyball Team since 2007 season start and wears number 14. She has played 43 times for the national team. She has also played for Eczacıbaşı, Şişli, Yalovaspor and Konya Selçuk University. See also * Turkish women in sports Turkish women have an active participation in many sports branches and have won several important trophies, especially in Athletics (sport), athletics, Olympic weightlifting, weightlifting, combat sports, volleyball and basketball. Participati ... External links * Player profile at fenerbahce.org 1985 births Living people Sportspeople from Tokat Turkish women's volleyball players 21st-century Turkish sportswomen Fenerbahçe S.K. (women's volleyball) players Eczacıbaşı Dynavit players {{Turkey-volleyball-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atalay Filiz
Atalay Filiz (born June 2, 1986) is a Turkish serial killer. He is held responsible for at least three murders, possibly for one in 2012, two in September 2013 and one in May 2016. A fugitive for more than two years, he was captured in June 2016. Early life He was educated at Galatasaray High School, one of the most prominent high schools of Turkey, in Istanbul, and graduated with honors. His teachers remark that "he is so intelligent that he could survive in a jungle when left alone." Filiz stated that he entered the OSS (a higher-education test, similar to the SATs or ACTs but geared towards a specific career path/profession, somewhat like the ASVAB test in the U.S.) in 2005 but his aim was not to pass the exam, but to study abroad, so he deliberately mislabeled the questions he could make out. In college, Filiz studied biology in the University of Paris-Sud in France. However, he did not attend classes, take exams and couldn't finish school due to a lack of money. In 2010, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filiz Vural
Filiz Vural (born 1953) is a former Turkish beauty contestant and Miss Europe 1971. She participated at a beauty pageant organized by the newspaper ''Hürriyet'', and won the title Miss Turkey 1970. The next year, she represented her country at the Miss Europe beauty contest held in Tunis, Tunisia Tunisia, officially the Republic of Tunisia, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered by Algeria to the west and southwest, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Tunisia also shares m ..., and was crowned Miss Europe on September 18, 1971. She is married to Engin Çağlar, a former film actor, they were married in 1972. References Miss Turkey winners Miss Europe winners Living people 1953 births {{Turkey-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filiz Taçbaş
Filiz Taçbaş (born 1964) is a Turkish film and television series actress and former national tennis player. Early life Filiz Taçbaş was born in İzmir, Turkey in 1964. She is of Azerbaijani descent. Already at age ten, she appeared as child actress in the film ''Bacım'' (literally "My Sister"), written and directed by Bilge Olgaç. In 1981, she won the first place in the "Fresh Faces" beauty contest organized by the children's magazine ''Saklambaç''. She started acting in the Theatre Abdullah Şahin. She played on stage with Defne Yalnız, Müjdat Gezen, Abdullah Şahin, Enis Fosforoğlu and Teoman Aksoy. She also worked as a model at the fashion shows of fashion designer Zühal Yorgancıoğlu abroad. Actress She continued her acting career in films after a long break. In 1987, she appeared in the film ''Aile Pansiyonu'' with Adile Naşit. Her recognition by a wide audience came in 1992 with her role in the TV series ''Mahallenin Muhtarları'' (literally: "Representativ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filiz Polat
Filiz Polat (born 11 July 1978) is a German politician for the Alliance 90/The Greens. Early years Polat was born on 11 July 1978 in Bramsche, a town in Osnabrück District, Germany, to a Turks in Germany, Turkish physician father and a German regional politician mother. She was schooled in Bramsche where she also attended high school. She finished her secondary education in Münster with Abitur and studied Economics at the Goethe University Frankfurt graduating with a thesis on "''Employment Effects of Technological Change: A Micro-econometric Approach''" in 2002. That year, she administered also an intermediate exam in Political Science. Political career In 1996, Polat co-founded the Green Youth (Germany), Green Youth in her hometown Brasche and joined the party Alliance 90/The Greens. She was active as a member in the city council of Bramsche between 1996 and 2001. From 2005 to 2007, she served as the deputy chairperson of the regional organization in Lower Saxony. Member ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filiz Koçali
Filiz Koçali (born 22 January 1958, Istanbul) is a female Turkish politician and a feminist activist and journalist. She was a founder member of the Freedom and Solidarity Party (ÖDP) in 1996 and of the break-away Socialist Democracy Party (SDP) in 2002, and was secretary general of the SDP from 2004 to 2009. She is now a member of the Peace and Democracy Party. Career Born in Istanbul, she participated in the students' movement in 1976. She interrupted her vocational training to work in several factories and take part in the struggles of the labor movement. After the 1980 military coup, she was active in a human rights organisation in Istanbul. As a journalist she wrote for the magazines ''Kadınca'' and '' Kim'' and the newspapers '' Radikal gazetesi'' and ''Bianet''. Having been a part of the women's rights movement since 1987, Koçali was one of the founding members of the feminist magazine '' Pazartesi'', whose editor-in-chief she was for a while. She was editor of the da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filiz Koç
Filiz Koç (born 6 October 1986), aka Filiz Heilmann or Filiz Heilmann Koç, is a Turkish-German women's footballer who plays as a midfielder in the Turkish Women's First League for 1207 Antalya Muratpaşa Belediye Spor. She is a member of the Turkey women's team. She also has a media career as model, beauty pageant contestant, actress and sideline reporter. Early life Filiz Koç was born to a Turkish father and a German mother in Ankara, Turkey on 6 October 1986. Her father, Savaş Koç, played football for the Turkish Süper Lig-team Galatasaray SK between 1986 and 1990. Her national-footballer father met his later wife during a football match in Munich. The couple married in Turkey, but moved to Germany when Filiz was three years old. where her father continued his football career playing for the Bundesliga team Hannover 96. At age 16, she was naturalized in Germany, holding now dual citizenship. Filiz Koç completed her education in a private school to become an instruct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filiz Kadoğan
Filiz Kadoğan (born 12 February 1982 in Istanbul) is a retired Turkish shot putter. She earned a bronze medal in the women's shot put at the 2003 European U23 Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland, and later represented her nation Turkey on her senior stint at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Throughout her athletics career, Kadogan trained full-time for Fenerbahçe Sports Club () in her native Istanbul under her coach and longtime mentor Sevinç Esmer. Kadogan has a personal outdoor best of 17.36 metres, set in 2009. Kadogan initially highlighted her sporting debut at the 2003 European U23 Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland, where she unleashed the ball at a third-place distance of 16.72 to round out the podium, finishing behind the gold medalist Natallia Kharaneka of Belarus by nearly a full meter. At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Kadogan qualified for the Turkish squad on her senior stint in the women's shot put. A year earlier, she attained her season best and an Olympic B- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turkish Name
A Turkish name consists of an ''ad'' or an ''isim'' (given name; plural ''adlar'' and ''isimler'') and a ''soyadı'' or ''soyisim'' (surname). Turkish names exist in a "full name" format. While there is only one ''soyadı'' (surname) in the full name there may be more than one ''ad'' (given name). Married women may carry both their maiden and husband's surnames. The ''soyadı'' is written as the last element of the full name, after all given names (except that official documents related to registration matters often use the format "Soyadı, Adı"). History Naming customs during the Ottoman Empire Given names At least one name, often two but very rarely more, are given to a person at birth. Newly given names are allowed up to three words. Most names are gender-specific: Oğuz (name), Oğuz is strictly for males, Tuğçe only for females. But many Turkish names are unisex names, unisex. Many modern given names (such as Deniz (given name), Deniz, "sea"; or Ülkü, "ideal") ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filiz İşikırık
Filiz İşikırık (born August 20, 1993, in Siverek, Şanlıurfa, Turkey) is a Turkish women's football forward currently playing in the Turkish Women's First Football League for Ataşehir Belediyespor with jersey number 63. She appeared in the Turkey women's national football team. Playing career Club İşikırık obtained her license on February 5, 2009, for Gazikentspor. After playing one season in the Women's Second League and capping four times, she transferred to Gölcükspor. At the end of her first season, she enjoyed promotion of her team to the Women's First League. For Gölcükspor, İşikırık capped 36 times and netted 42 goals before she signed with Lüleburgaz 39 Spor for the 2011–12 season. She scored 17 goals in 19 matches in one season for Lüleburgaz 39 Spor. İşikırık was with Trabzon İdmanocağı two seasons from the 2012–13 season. She transferred to the Third League team 76 Iğdır Spor in the beginning of 2015. The next year, İşikırık s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filiz Hyusmenova
Filiz Hyusmenova (; born 10 June 1966 in Silistra, Bulgaria) is a Bulgarian politician of Bulgarian-Turkish descent who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2007 until 2019. She is a member of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe. Political career Career in national politics From 2003 until 2005, Hyusmenova served as Minister without portfolio in the government of Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. Member of the European Parliament, 2007–2019 Hyusmenova became a Member of the European Parliament on 1 January 2007 with the accession of Bulgaria to the European Union. In parliament, she served on the Committee on Regional Development (2007–2014), the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (2014–2019) and the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality (2017–2019). In addition to her committee assignments, Hyusmenova was part of the parliament's delegations for re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
