Çiğdem is a common feminine
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 ...
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Turkish, "Çiğdem" means "
crocus
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colchicum
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meadow saffron
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People
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Çiğdem Akyol (born 1978), German journalist
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Çiğdem Balım Harding Çiğdem Balım is Senior Lecturer Emerita at the Center for the Study of the Middle East at Indiana University. Balım was the Associate Director of the Center. She also acted as the director of graduate studies and as the director of language inst ...
, American senior lecturer at Indiana University
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Çiğdem Belci
Çiğdem Belci (born 17 June 1987) is a Turkish women's soccer, women's football Defender (association football), defender currently playing in the Turkish Women's Football Super League, Women's Super League for Galatasaray S.K. (women's footbal ...
(born 1987), Turkish footballer
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Çiğdem Can Rasna
Çiğdem Can (born July 5, 1976) is a Turkish volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized ru ...
(born 1976), Turkish volleyball player
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Çiğdem Dede
Çiğdem Dede (born 27 February 1980, in Gaziantep, Turkey) is a Turkish powerlifter competing in the −44 kg division. She won the silver medal at the 2012 Paralympics. She is a dwarf athlete of Ankara Guven Spor, where she is coached by ...
(born 1980), Turkish paralympic powerlifter
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Çiğdem Kağıtçıbaşı (1940–2017), Turkish scientist in social psychology
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Çiğdem Özyaman (born 1985), Turkish sport shooter
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Çiğdem Talu
Çiğdem Talu (October 31, 1939 – May 28, 1983) was a Turkish poet and lyricist. The writer Ercüment Ekrem Talu was her grandfather.
Çiğdem wrote her first song "''Ağlıyorum Yine''", which was sung by Nilüfer and released on her sin ...
(1939–1983), Turkish pop music songwriter
Places
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Çiğdem, Balya, a village
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Turkish feminine given names
Feminine given names