Yıldırım is a
Turkish word meaning "
lightning
Lightning is a naturally occurring electrostatic discharge during which two electrically charged regions, both in the atmosphere or with one on the ground, temporarily neutralize themselves, causing the instantaneous release of an average ...
" and may refer to:
People
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Ali Yıldırım Koç (born 1967), Turkish businessman and member of the Koç family
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Yıldırım Akbulut (1935–2021), Turkish politician
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Yıldırım Aktuna (1930–2007), Turkish psychiatrist and politician
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Yıldırım Demirören (born 1964), Turkish businessman and president of Turkish Football Federation
Surname
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Adnan Yıldırım (1957–1994), Turkish person involved in the Susurluk scandal
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Ahmet Yıldırım
Ahmet Yıldırım (born 25 February 1974 in Amasya) is a Turkish former professional footballer and coach who is currently the manager of Sarıyer.
Club career
Yıldırım has played for Fenerbahçe S.K., Samsunspor, Ankaragücü, İstanb ...
(born 1974), Turkish footballer
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Avni Yıldırım (born 1991), Turkish boxer
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Aygün Yıldırım (born 1995), German footballer
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Aziz Yıldırım
Aziz Yıldırım (born 2 November 1952) was the 36th chairman of the Turkish, He has Kurdish Origin
multi-sport club Fenerbahçe SK. He lost the election held on 3 June 2018 to Ali Koç which made him the 37th president of the Turkish club. ...
(born 1952), Turkish businessman and former chairman of Fenerbahçe S.K.
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Binali Yıldırım
Binali Yıldırım (; born 20 December 1955) is a Turkish politician who served as the 27th and last Prime Minister of Turkey from 2016 to 2018 and Speaker of the Grand National Assembly from 2018 to 2019. He was Leader of the Justice and Deve ...
(born 1955), Turkish politician and prime minister from May 2016
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Bülent Yıldırım (referee) (born 1972), Turkish football referee
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Cemal Yıldırım
Cemal Yıldırım (1925–2009) was a Turkish philosopher, author, educator, and researcher. He wrote 15 books (4 in English and 11 in Turkish) and numerous academic papers.
He wrote extensively on the philosophy of science and the history of ...
(born 1925), Turkish philosopher of science
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Cem Yıldırım
Cem Yalçın Yıldırım (born 8 July 1961) is a Turkish mathematician who specializes in number theory. He obtained his B.Sc from Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey and his PhD from the University of Toronto in 1990. His adviso ...
(born 1961), Turkish mathematician
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Elif Yıldırım (born 1990), Turkish female middle-distance runner
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Fatma Sezen Yıldırım (born 1954), Turkish singer, songwriter and producer
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Fatoş Yıldırım (born 1994), Turkish women's footballer
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Fehmi Bülent Yıldırım (born 1966), Turkish NGO leader
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Gülser Yıldırım (born 1963) Turkish-Kurdish politician
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Haluk Yıldırım (born 1972), Turkish basketball player
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Hüseyin Yıldırım
Hüseyin Yıldırım (born March 10, 1928) is a Turkish-American auto mechanic who was sentenced to life imprisonment in the United States for his courier role in the espionage activities of U.S. serviceman James Hall III during the Cold War era. ...
(born 1928), convicted Turkish spy of the Cold War era
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Irmak Yıldırım
Irmak Yıldırım (born 2005) is a Turkish motocross raceser. She is her country's first female athlete in this sport. She is a ntive of Balıkesir, Turkey.
Encouraged by her father, she started motorcycle riding in 2012. She has been particip ...
(born 2005), Turkish female motocross racer
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Mahmut Yıldırım Mahmut Yıldırım (born 1951, Yenidal, Solhan, Bingöl Province), better known as Yeşil ( Turkish for "Green"), is a Turkish rogue agent of Zaza origins. He is wanted for the murders of eight people in Turkey. Among the murders he is accused of ...
(born 1953), Turkish Olympian contract killer
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Mithat Yıldırım
Mithat Yıldırım (born January 12, 1966) is a retired Olympian cross-country skier from Turkey.
Mithat Yıldırım competed for Turkey at the 1992 Winter Olympics and 1994 Winter Olympics in cross country 10 km (classical) and 10 km event ...
(born 1966), Turkish cross-country skier
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Murat Yıldırım (actor) (born 1979), Turkish actor
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Murat Yıldırım (footballer) (born 1987), Dutch footballer of Turkish descent
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Özkan Yıldırım (born 1993), German footballer
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Ramazan Yıldırım
Ramazan Yıldırım (born 7 September 1975) is a German-born Turkish former footballer and manager.
Career
As a player, Yıldırım spent three seasons in the 2. Bundesliga with Rot-Weiss Essen and Kickers Offenbach, as well as one season in t ...
(born 1975), Turkish footballer and manager
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Rıza Yıldırım (born 1987), Turkish wrestler
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Rukiye Yıldırım (born 1991), Turkish female taekwondo practitioner
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Selma Yildirim (born 1969), Austrian politician
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Sercan Yıldırım
Sercan Yıldırım (, born 5 April 1990) is a Turkish former football player who played as a forward.
Club career Bursaspor
Yıldırım started his career at Bursaspor. He broke into the first team in the 2007–2008 season, making his leagu ...
(born 1990), Turkish footballer
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Uğur Yıldırım (born 1982), Dutch footballer of Turkish descent
Nickname
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Bayezid I
Bayezid I ( ota, بايزيد اول, tr, I. Bayezid), also known as Bayezid the Thunderbolt ( ota, link=no, یلدیرم بايزيد, tr, Yıldırım Bayezid, link=no; – 8 March 1403) was the Ottoman Sultan from 1389 to 1402. He adopted ...
(1354–1403), "Yıldırım Bayezid", Ottoman sultan
Places
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Yıldırım, Bursa, a metropolitan district in the center of Bursa, Turkey
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Yıldırım, Yenişehir
*The Turkish name of the town of
Milia, Famagusta, Northern Cyprus
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Yıldırım railway station
Yıldırım railway station ( tr, Yıldırım istasyonu) is a railway station in Ankara, Turkey, currently being rebuilt. The station was a stop on the Ankara suburban from 1972 to 2016 when it was closed and demolished shortly after, in order to r ...
, a commuter rail station in Ankara, Turkey
Other uses
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J-600T Yıldırım, a conventional battlefield ballistic missile system of Turkey
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Yıldırım Bosna S.K., a football club in Istanbul, Turkey
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Yıldırım Army Group, army group of the Ottoman Empire during World War I
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Turkish-language surnames
Turkish masculine given names