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Taner Etkin
Taner (from Turkish ', "dawn", and ', "man") is usually a Turkish masculine given name and surname. It may also refer to Taner, a former imperial Chinese commandery. Given name *Ahmet Taner Kışlalı (1939−1999), political scientist, author and politician *Dany Bahar (born 1971), birth name Taner Bahar, Turkish chief executive *Taner Adu (born 1984), professional basketball player *Taner Akçam (born 1953), Turkish historian, sociologist and author *Taner Akyol (born 1977), Turkish bağlama player and classical music composer * Taner Ari (born 1987), Austrian footballer of Turkish descent * Taner Birsel (born 1959), Turkish film actor *Taner Ceylan (born 1967), German-born Turkish photo-realist artist * Taner Demirbaş (born 1978), Turkish footballer *Taner Gülleri (born 1976), Turkish footballer *Taner Öner (born 1971), Turkish women's football manager *Taner Sağır (born 1985), Turkish weightlifting champion *Taner Yalçın (born 1990), Turkish-German footballer *Taner Yı ... [...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] |
Taner Sağır
Taner Sağır (born 13 March 1985 in Kardzhali, Bulgaria) is a Turkish world and Olympic weightlifting champion. Coming into Athens as holder of all the junior world records at the age of only 19, he broke the Olympic records in the category –77 kg snatch, clean and jerk and total. He is seen as a great talent by authorities. Early years He was born in Bulgaria to parents of Turkish ethnicity. In 1989, the family emigrated to Turkey where they settled first in the Batıkent neighborhood of Yenimahalle, Ankara before later moving to Pursaklar, Ankara. In 1994, Taner began weightlifting in Pursaklar. Taner Sağır is the younger brother of Olympic weightlifter Nezir Sağır. Sports career Sağır, 1.70 m tall, is a student of physical education and sports. Muharrem Süleymanoğlu and Osman Nuri Vural coach him at the Demirspor Club in Ankara, Turkey. As he is somewhat baby-faced, he was in a few commercials at the Athens Olympics in 2004. He did not finish aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tanners (other)
Tanners may refer to: * Tanners (company), a British wine company * Tanners, Virginia, an unincorporated community located in Madison County, United States * Jerald and Sandra Tanner, opponents of the LDS Church (Mormons) * Leatherhead F.C., a football (soccer) club in Leatherhead, England * a nickname for Peabody Veterans Memorial High School, a public high school located in Peabody, Massachusetts See also * Tanner (other) * Tanners' Bridge, an 18th-century Ottoman period stone footbridge located in Tirana, Albania * List of Full House characters * List of ALF characters {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tanner (other)
Tanner may refer to: * Tanner (occupation), the tanning of leather and hides People * Tanner (given name), * Tanner (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) *The Tanner Sisters, also referred to as "The Harbingers of Weirdness" * Simon the Tanner (New Testament), a Jaffa resident where Saint Peter stayed, as told in the New Testament * Simon the Tanner (10th century), a Coptic Orthodox saint * Theodotus the Tanner (fl. late 2nd century), an early Christian writer from Byzantium Places Populated places ;In the United States * Tanner, Alabama, an unincorporated community * Tanner, Georgia, an unincorporated community * Tanner, Indiana, an unincorporated community * Tanner, Kentucky, an unincorporated community * Tanner, Missouri, an unincorporated community * Tanner, Washington, a census-designated place * Tanner, West Virginia, an unincorporated community * Tanner Township, Kidder County, North Dakota, a civil township ;Elsewhere * Tanner's Settle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kadıköy Haldun Taner Stage
Kadıköy Haldun Taner Stage ( tr, Kadıköy Haldun Taner Sahnesi) is a theatre venue located in Kadıköy district of Istanbul, Turkey. It is owned by Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality and operated by its City Theatres (''Şehir Tiyatroları'') division. The theatre is named in honor of the Turkish playwright Haldun Taner (1915-1986). Situated on the landing square (İskele Meydanı), the building, which hosts the theatre today, was constructed as the first modern market hall in Istanbul between 1925 and 1927. However, it stood vacant for a period of ten years since the traders in the agricultural marketing business did not want to be tenant. In order to utilize the vacant building, some parts of it was used by the fire department, and some parts served as depot for scrap vehicles. Its purposeful usage began in the 1940s, lasting until the mid 1970s. After its complete renovation in 1984, the building was assigned to Istanbul University for use as conservatory in 1986. Final ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uğur Taner
Mehmet Uğur Taner (born June 20, 1974) is a retired Turkish-born American swimmer. Taner was born in Istanbul, Turkey, the son of Erol and Gulcin Taner, who moved to the United States one year later. He attended high school at Newport High School in Bellevue, Washington, where he excelled in swimming. The summer after his senior year, he swam for Turkey in the 1992 Summer Olympics. He swam for University of California, Berkeley and was on the US national team from 1993 to 2000, winning nine national individual titles as well as 1994 world champion in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay A relay Electromechanical relay schematic showing a control coil, four pairs of normally open and one pair of normally closed contacts An automotive-style miniature relay with the dust cover taken off A relay is an electrically operated switch .... In 2000, Taner married another internationally recognized swimmer, Liesl Kolbisen, and began to work at her family's swim school, La Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seyyal Taner
Seyyal Taner (born September 28, 1952) is a Turkish singer and actress. Early life and career beginnings Taner was born in Şanlıurfa, Turkey and later moved to Istanbul with her family. She graduated from the Amerikan Kız Lisesi. She received vocal training from Şerif Yüzbaşıoğlu in 1965 and started to sing as an amateur with the Kanat Gür Orkestrası. In 1968 Los Bravos played in Istanbul and, having caught her act, offered Taner a role in a Spanish musical. Whilst promoting in Spain, she attracted the attention of Paramount Pictures and was offered a small part in ''Villa Rides''. On returning to Turkey, Taner continued her acting career until she left for Germany and marriage to Peter Harold, Los Bravos's guitarist. The couple had a daughter; after divorcing, Taner returned to Turkey and began directing her career towards music. Career Taner signed a record deal with the 1 Numara Plakçılık, a label belonging to Ali Kocatepe. Her debut 45 rpm record "Tanrı ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rüya Taner
Rüya Taner (born 1971) is a Turkish Cypriot pianist. She was born in Germany and settled in Ankara Ankara ( , ; ), historically known as Ancyra and Angora, is the capital of Turkey. Located in the central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of 5.1 million in its urban center and over 5.7 million in Ankara Province, maki ..., Turkey, in the early 1980s, where she studied at the State Conservatory. Taner is acknowledged as one of the leading Turkish pianists of the contemporary generation. References External linksOfficial Website Turkish Cy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haldun Taner
Haldun Taner (March 16, 1915 – May 7, 1986) was a well-known Turkish playwright and short story writer. Biography He was born on March 16, 1915 in Istanbul. After graduating from the Galatasaray High School in 1935, he studied politics and economy at the University of Heidelberg in Germany, until a serious health problem forced him to return to Turkey, where he graduated from the Faculty of German Literature and Linguistics in 1950. He also studied theatre and philosophy at the University of Vienna between 1955 and 1957 under the direction of Heinz Kindermann (1894–1985), an Austrian theater and literary scholar. As a well-disciplined writer accumulating a rich blend of culture, Taner wrote a great number of stories, generally humorous; essays, newspaper columns, travel writings and theatre plays, in particular, brought him several important awards including the ''New York Herald Tribune'' Story Contest First Prize (1954), the Sait Faik Story Award (1954), the Internationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Güneş Taner
Güneş Taner (born November 14, 1949) is a Turkish politician and former government minister. Early life Güneş Taner was born in Istanbul to Cengiz Tahir Taner and his wife Süheyla on November 14, 1949. He was educated in civil engineering at Yıldız Technical University, and literature at Faculty of Letters in Istanbul University. He received a master's degree in Industrial administration from State University of New York Polytechnic Institute. He has an honorary doctor title awarded by Plekhanov Russian University of Economics. Taner was an executive at Citibank. Politics career He served as politics advisor to the prime minister, and was among the founders of the Motherland Party ( tr, Anavatan Partisi, ANAP). He was elected to the parliament four times in 1987, 1991, 1995 and 1999 general elections representing Istanbul Province. In 1990, Taner was appointed placeholder for the post of Minister of National Defense in the Yıldırım Akbulut cabinet, and was in off ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Görgün Taner
Gorgun Taner (born 1959) is the general director of the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV), a non-profit, non-governmental organisation founded in 1973 that organises four international festivals (film, theatre, classical music and jazz), the Istanbul Biennial, and the Istanbul Design Biennial. He has been working at the foundation since 1983 and served as assistant director and program poordinator for foreign relations (1987–1994) and director of the International Istanbul Jazz Festival (1994–2002) before being appointed as general director in 2002. A Boğaziçi University history graduate, Taner is currently faculty member of the Cultural Management Program of Istanbul Bilgi University. He is a board member of the Istanbul Modern Art Museum and chairman of the European Cultural Foundation. Previously, he served as the president of the European Jazz Festival Association between 1998 and 2002. He was a member of the advisory board of the Istanbul 2010 European Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emre Taner
Emre Taner (born 1942, Lice Diyarbakır) is a Turkish civil servant who was until May 2010 the undersecretary (i.e. chief) of the governmental intelligence agency of Turkey, the National Intelligence Organization ( tr, Milli İstihbarat Teşkilatı, MİT). Career After graduating from the School of Political Science at Ankara University, he entered the intelligence agency in 1967 and served almost in all the sections of the organization. Between 1984 and 1986, Emre Taner was the chief of Istanbul region bureau. In 1987, he became the head of intelligence department, and was appointed Deputy Undersecretary of MİT in 1992. From 1994 on, Emre Taner served in foreign countries until his appointment to Deputy Undersecretary for Operations on April 7, 1999. Emre Taner succeeded Şenkal Atasagun, who retired on June 15, 2005 from his post before his term of office. Taner announced a restructuring of the MİT at the start of 2009. On May 26, 2010, Taner passed the post on to his succ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
