Volkan is a given name. Notable people with the name include:
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Volkan Altın (born 1986), Turkish professional footballer who currently plays as a defensive midfielder
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Volkan Arslan, (born 1978), Turkish football player in midfield position
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Volkan Babacan (born 1988), Turkish football player
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Volkan Bekçi (born 1987), Turkish footballer
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Volkan Kürşat Bekiroğlu
Volkan Kürşat Bekiroğlu (born December 30, 1977 in Kadirli, Turkey) is a Turkish retired footballer who last played for Adanaspor. He is playing leftback and left midfield. Standing at 175 cm, he wears the number 47 jersey. His brother ...
(born 1977), Turkish footballer
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Volkan Canalioğlu (born 1950), Turkish politician who served as mayor of Trabzon from 2004 to 2009
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Volkan Demirel (born 1981), Turkish footballer and currently is a member of the Fenerbahçe squad
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Volkan Dikmen (born 1991), Turkish footballer
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Volkan Ş. Ediger (born 1953), scientist, writer, bureaucrat
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Volkan Gucer
Volkan Gucer ( tr, Volkan Gücer) is a music composer, producer, performer on the dilli kaval (Turkish wooden flute), and the Irish whistle.
With a professional career that spans more than 14 years, he has written and produced music for 40 TV se ...
, music composer, producer, performer of dilli kaval (Turkish wooden flutes)
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Volkan Güç
Volkan Güç, (16 July 1980 in Adana, Turkey) is a Turkish volleyball player. He is member of the Turkey men's national volleyball team. The tall sportsman plays as opposite setter. He studied at Istanbul University.
He began his volleyball car ...
(born 1980), Turkish volleyballer
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Volkan Kahraman
Volkan Kahraman (10 October 1979 – 8 February 2023) was an Austrian football player and manager.
Club career
Kahraman made his professional debut for Eredivisie side Feyenoord in November 1997 against De Graafschap and then scored 11 goals ...
(born 1979), Austrian football player of Turkish descent
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Volkan Konak
Volkan Konak (born 27 February 1967) is a Turkish folk singer. His song "Cerrahpaşa" was a great success and his album, ''Mora'', released in 2006, was awarded a gold plaque by the Turkish recording producers association, MÜ-YAP.
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, Turkish folk singer
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Volkan Şen
Volkan Şen (born 7 July 1987) is a Turkish professional Association football, footballer who plays as a Midfielder#Winger, winger. He is under contract with Adana Demirspor. He is mostly known for his long shots, his dribbling and speed.
Club c ...
(born 1987), Turkish footballer
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Volkan Ünlü
Volkan Ünlü (born 8 July 1983) is a Turkish former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper
In many team sports which involve scoring goals, the goalkeeper (sometimes termed goaltender, netminder, GK, goalie or keeper) is a desi ...
(born 1983), Turkish football goalkeeper
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Volkan Yaman (born 1982), German born Turkish professional football player
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Hilmi Volkan Demir
Hilmi Volkan Demir is a Turkish scientist, best known for his works on white light generation.
Biography
Hilmi Volkan Demir was born on July 4, 1976 in Kars, Turkey. He received his B.Sc. degree in electrical and electronics engineering from Bil ...
, Turkish scientist, best known for his works on White Light Generation
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Vamık Volkan (born 1932), emeritus professor of psychiatry at the University of Virginia School of Medicine
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Volkan (newspaper)'', an Ottoman daily published in period 1908–1909
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VOLKAN,
Turkish-Cypriot
Turkish Cypriots or Cypriot Turks ( tr, Kıbrıs Türkleri or ''Kıbrıslı Türkler''; el, Τουρκοκύπριοι, Tourkokýprioi) are ethnic Turks originating from Cyprus. Following the Ottoman conquest of the island in 1571, about 30,00 ...
nationalist group
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