Yalçın or Yalcin is a
given name
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and a
surname
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of Turkic origin. Notable people with the name include:
Given name
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Yalchin Rzazadeh (born 1969), a Soviet-period Azerbaijani pop singer
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Yalçın Akdoğan (born 1969), Turkish politician
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Yalçın Ayhan (born 1982), Turkish football player
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Yalçın Granit (1932–2020), Turkish basketball player, coach and sports journalist
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Yalçın Küçük
Yalçın Küçük (born 1938) is a Turkish socialist writer, economist, historian and media pundit, recognized for his historical studies on the late-Ottoman and Republican periods in the history of Turkey and Soviet economic development from a ...
(born 1938), Turkish socialist writer, philosopher, economist and historian
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Yalçın Topçu (born 1957), Turkish politician
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Yiğit Yalçın Çıtak (born 2001), Turkish Olympian sailor
Surname
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Lev Yalcin (born 1985), Turkish football player
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Nihal Yalçın
Nihal Yalçın (born 29 March 1981) is a Turkish actress.
Career
In 2005 she appeared in the movie '' Hacivat Karagöz Neden Öldürüldü?'' as Zeyno Bacı and in 2009 in '' Ay Lav Yu'' as Rukiye. She briefly joined ''Avrupa Yakası'' as Me ...
(born 1981), Turkish actress
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Pınar Yalçın
Pınar Yalçın (born 7 November 1988) is a Turks in Sweden, Turkish-Swedish women's soccer, women's football Forward (association football), forward who played in the Swedish Women's Football Division 2 between 2013 and 2017. She also played fo ...
(born 1988), Turkish-Swedish football player
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Robin Yalçın
Robin Yalçın (born 25 January 1994) is a German professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Turkish club Eyüpspor.
Club career
On 25 September 2012, Yalçın made his debut for VfB Stuttgart II in the 3. Liga against Ha ...
(born 1994), German football player of Turkish descent
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Saygin Yalcin
Saygin Yalcin ( ''Turkish'': Saygın Yalçın;[Sergen Yalçın
Ali Rıza Sergen Yalçın (; born 5 November 1972), known as Sergen Yalçın, Turkish professional football manager and former player. Yalçın is the first individual in Turkish football to win the Süper Lig both as ...]
(born 1972), Turkish football player and coach
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Serkan Yalçın
Serkan Yalçın (born 2 November 1982) is a Turkish former professional footballer
A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, Amer ...
(born 1982), Turkish football player
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Soner Yalçın
Soner Yalçın (born January 1, 1966) is a Turkish journalist and writer. The co-founder of the news website odatv, he was arrested in February 2011 along with other odatv journalists and charged with links to the Ergenekon organization. He was ...
(born 1966), Turkish journalist and writer
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Süleyman Yalçın
Süleyman Yalçın (1926–2016) was a Turkish physician, academic, conservative political figure and journalist who headed a conservative nationalist think-tank called the Aydınlar Ocağı () in the 1970s and 1980s. He was a faculty member at I ...
(1926–2016), Turkish physician and conservative thinker
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Taner Yalçın
Taner Yalçın (, born 18 February 1990) is a German former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He manages SC 1960 Hanau.
Club career 1. FC Köln
In 2003, Yalçın moved from SC Fortuna Köln to 1. FC Köln. There, he won the 20 ...
(born 1990), Turkish-German football player
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Yalçıntaş Yalçıntaş is a Turkish name which is a compound word: Yalçın+taş. In Turkish ''yalçın'' means "steep, smooth, slippery, shiny, polished," and ''taş'' means "stone.
Notable people with the surname include:
*İlyas Yalçıntaş
İlyas Ya ...
, list of people with a similar surname
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