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Selahattin Demirtaş Presidential Campaign, 2018
Selahattin is the Turkish language, Turkish spelling of the Arabic Muslims, Muslim masculine given name Salah ad-Din (name), Salah ad-Din (Arabic: صلاح الدّين ''ṣalāḥ ad-dīn''). Notable people with the name include: People * Selahattin Çolak, Turkish politician * Selahattin Demirtaş (born 1972), Kurdish-Turkish politician * Selâhattin Kantar (1878–1949), Turkish archaeologist * Selahattin Kınalı (born 1978), Turkish footballer *Selahattin Özmen, Turkish surgeon * Selahattin Ülkümen (1914–2003), Turkish diplomat who assisted Jews in WW2 See also *Dr. Selahattin Akçiçek Cultural Center {{given name Turkish masculine given names ... [...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] |
