Meral is a common
Turkish given 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 na ...
and Altai name. It is a variant of Maral. In Altai, Turkish and Mongolian "Maral" means "female deer". Meral has the same meaning as "Maral". It is also used as a surname.
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Meral Akşener
Meral Akşener (née Gürer, ; born 18 July 1956) is a Turkish politician, teacher, historian and academic. She served as Minister of the Interior and was a vice-speaker of the Grand National Assembly. She also founded and is leader of the Good Pa ...
(born 1956), Turkish politician
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Meral Yıldız Ali
Meral Yıldız Ali (born June 23, 1987 in Romania) is a Romanian- Turkish female table tennis player.
She plays for Fenerbahçe TT since 2007 and also played for Constanta TT in Romania and Eskişehir Anadolu University in Turkey.
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(born 1987), Romanian-Turkish table tennis player
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Meral Çetinkaya
Meral Onuktav Çetinkaya (born 5 March 1945) is a Turkish film actress. She has appeared in more than twenty films since 1962.
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1945 births
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(born 1945), Turkish actress
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Meral Danış Beştaş
Meral Danış Beştaş (born 5 April 1967) is a Turkish politician from the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), who has served as a Member of Parliament since 7 June 2015.
Early life and education
Born in Mardin, Beştaş graduated from Dicle ...
(born 1967), Turkish politician
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Meral Ece
Meral Hussein Ece, Baroness Hussein-Ece, (born 10 October 1955) is a British Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords. She is the first woman of Turkish Cypriot origin to be a member of either house of Parliament after she was appointed a ...
(born 1953), British politician
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Meral Menderes
Meral Menderes (1933 – 27 December 2011) was a Turkish opera singer as soprano.
Early life
Meral Menderes was born in Kuşadası of Aydın Province , western Turkey in 1933. She took her first singing lessons from Münir Ceyhan at Istanbul M ...
(1933–2011), Turkish opera singer as soprano
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Meral Okay
Meral Okay (, née Katı; September 20, 1959 – April 9, 2012) was a Turkish actress, film producer and screenwriter.
Early life
Okay was born on September 20, 1959 in Ankara to military judge Ata Katı and Türkan as the second child. During h ...
(1959–2012), Turkish actress, film producer and screenwriter
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Meral Özsoyoglu
Zehra Meral Özsoyoglu is a Turkish-American computer scientist specializing in databases, including research on query languages, database model, and indexes, and applications of databases in science, bioinformatics, and medical informatics. She is ...
, Turkish-American computer scientist
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Meral Perin
Meral Perin (born 1965) is a Turkish-German actress
An actor or actress is a person who portrays a Character (arts), character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media s ...
(born 1965), Turkish-German actress
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Meral Tasbas
Meral Izabelle Tasbas (born 4 April 1979) is a Swedish television personality, singer, actress and television host. Tasbas is known for appearing as a contestant on all five seasons of the reality show '' The Bar'' between 2000 and 2004 on TV3 a ...
(born 1979), Swedish actress
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Ziya Meral Ziya Meral is a UK based Turkish-British researcher and advisor. He specialises on global trends shaping defence and security, politics and foreign policies of Turkey and the Middle East, religion and violent conflict issues. He is a senior resident ...
, Turkish-British researcher and advisor
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