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 ...
that means female deer. It is Turkish variant of Maral. In Altai, Turkish, Mongolian, Armenian and Persian "
Maral" means "female deer". It is also used as a surname.
People
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Meral Akşener (born 1956), Turkish politician
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Meral Yıldız Ali
Meral Yıldız Ali (born 23 June 1987 in Romania) is a Romanian-Turkish people, Turkish female table tennis player.
She plays for Fenerbahçe Table Tennis, Fenerbahçe TT since 2007 and also played for Constanta TT in Romania and Eskişeh ...
(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.
Filmography
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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 Kurdish politician from the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), who has served as a Member of Parliament since 23 June 2015.
Early life and education
Born in Mardin, Beştaş graduated from Dicl ...
(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 ...
(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 Mu ...
(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 (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre ...
(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 ...
(born 1979), Swedish actress
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Ziya Meral Ziya Meral is a UK based Turkish-British academic 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 ia Lecturer in Interna ...
, Turkish-British researcher and advisor
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