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Ufuk Çalışkan
Ufuk is a unisex Turkish language, Turkish given name meaning "horizon". It stems from the Arabic ufuq (أفق), having the same meaning, as does the corresponding Hebrew name "אופק". The name may refer to: People *Destiny (2006 film), Ufuk Bayraktar (born 1981), Turkish actor *Ufuk Budak (born 1990), Azerbaijani football player *Ufuk Ceylan (born 1986), Turkish football player *Ufuk S. Erguen (born 1967), German Business Angel *Ufuk Özbek (born 1992), Turkish-German football player *Ufuk Sarıca (born 1972), Turkish basketball coach *Ufuk Talay (born 1976), Australian football player *Ufuk Uras (born 1959), Turkish politician See also *Ufuk University, Turkey Notes {{Reflist Unisex given names Turkish unisex 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] |
