Ülkü (literally: "ideal") is a
Turkish
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surname
and a
unisex
Unisex is an adjective indicating something is not sex-specific, i.e. is suitable for any type of sex. The term can also mean gender-blindness or gender neutrality.
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given name and may refer to:
;Given name
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Ülkü Adatepe (1932–2012), youngest adopted daughter of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
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Ülkü Azrak
Ali Ülkü Azrak (24 July 1933 – 15 April 2020) was a Turkish lawyer and academic.
Personal life
He had two sons from his marriage to Hannelore Azrak, who was of German origin. He spent the majority of his time between Turkey and Germany. Th ...
(1933–2020), Turkish lawyer
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Ülkü Tamer
Ülkü Tamer, (20 February 1937–1 April 2018) was a Turkish poet, journalist, actor and translator.
Biography
Born in Gaziantep, the artist is the eldest of three sons (Ülkü, Aykut, Tankut) of Hasan Tahsin Bey, one of the first weavers of ...
(1937-2018), Turkish poet
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Ülkü Uludoğan
Ülkü Uludoğan (born 1940, Ankara) is a Turkish artist. She received her first art lessons from her father Naim Uludoğan. She graduated from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in Istanbul, and has also taken art and painting lessons from Nurul ...
(born 1940), Turkish artist
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Mehmet Ülkü
Mehmet Ülkü (1877 – 2 July 1946) was a Turkish businessman and politician, who was one of the early industrialists of the Turkish Republic
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, lin ...
(1877–1946), Turkish businessman and politician
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Semra Ülkü
Prof. Dr. Semra Ãœlkü is a Turkish educator and university administrator who served for eight years (1998–2006) as the rector of the Ä°zmir Institute of Technology. She was the second academic to serve in the institution's top position sinc ...
, Turkish educator
See also
* ''
Ülkü (magazine)
''Ülkü'' (Turkish language, Turkish: ''The Ideal'') was a magazine which existed between 1933 and 1950 and which was one of seventy-five official media outlets of the Halkevleri, People's Houses, cultural institutions started in 1932 as an enli ...
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Turkish-language surnames
Turkish unisex given names
Surnames from nicknames