Yüksel or Yuksel is a Turkish given name and surname meaning "rise!", imperative of "yükselmek" ("to rise"). Notable people with the name include:
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Yüksel Alkan
Yüksel Alkan (1 May 1931 – 23 November 2017) was a Turkish basketball player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1952 Summer Olympics.
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1931 births
2017 deaths
Turkish men's basketball playe ...
(1931–2017), Turkish basketball player
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Yüksel Ayaydın (born 1989), Turkish kickboxer
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Yüksel Coşkunyürek (born 1965), Turkish politician
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Yüksel Koptagel (born 1931), Turkish composer and pianist
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Yüksel Pazarkaya (born 1940), Turkish writer, translator and broadcaster
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Yüksel Sariyar (born 1979), Austrian footballer
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Yüksel Yavuz (born 1964), Turkish-born German Kurdish film director
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Yüksel Yesilova (born 1972), Turkish football player and coach
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Yuksel Yumerov (born 1968), Bulgarian footballer
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Yüksel Şanlı (born 1973), Turkish Olympic wrestler
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Anıl Yüksel (born 1990), Turkish tennis player
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Atakan Yüksel (born 1985), Turkish wrestler
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Batu Han Yüksel (born 1999), Turkish weightlifter
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Burak Yacan Yüksel (born 1992), Turkish basketballer
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Burcu Yüksel (born 1990), Turkish high jumper
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Celil Yüksel (born 1998), Turkish footballer
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Damir Ibrić Yüksel (born 1984), Bosnian footballer
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Ece Yüksel (born 1997), Turkish actress
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Edip Yüksel (born 1957), Turkish American moderate religious reformer
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Ekrem Gökay Yüksel (born 1981), Turkish politician
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Gülistan Yüksel (born 1962), German politician
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Levent Yüksel (born 1964), Turkish singer-songwriter
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Mehmet Yuksel (born 1970), German footballer and manager
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Metin Yüksel
Metin Yüksel (July 17, 1958 – February 23, 1979) was a Kurdish-Turkish political and social Islamist activist. One of the main leaders of Turkey's Islamic movement during the 1970s, he also was a member of the Raiders Organization.
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(1958–1979), Turkish Islamist
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Mikail Yüksel (born 1982), Swedish politician
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Müjde Yüksel (born 1981), Turkish female basketball player
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Saadet Yüksel (born 1983), Turkish judge
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Serdar Yüksel (born 1973), German politician
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Şule Yüksel Şenler (1938–2019), Turkish journalist
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Yüksel, Dinar, village in Afyonkarahisar Province, Turkey
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Yüksel Tohumculuk, a Turkish plant breeding company based in Antalya
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Turkish-language surnames
Turkish masculine given names
Masculine given names