Yaşar (name)

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Yaşar is a masculine Turkish given name, which also appears as a surname that means immortal.^[1] In non-Turkish publications, the name would many times appear as Yasar (with no cedilla on the s).

People with the name include:

Yaşar

Yaşar Aliyev (born 1955), Azerbaijani diplomat
Yaşar Altıntaş (born 1957), Turkish footballer
Yaşar Alpaslan (1914–1995), Turkish footballer
Yaşar Bilgin (born 1950), German politician and physician
Yaşar Turgut Bilgin (born 1957), Turkish author
Yaşar Büyükanıt (1940–2019), Turkish general, Chief of the Turkish General Staff of the Turkish Armed Forces
Yaşar Halit Çevik (born 1955), Turkish ambassador
Yaşar Doğu (1913–1961), Turkish sports wrestler
Yaşar Erkan (1911–1986), Turkish sports wrestler
Yaşar Giritli (born 1969), Turkish boxer
Yaşar Güler (born 1954), Turkish general
Yasar İsmailoğlu (born 1945), Turkish-Cypriot poet, writer and journalist
Yaşar Karadağ (born 1976), Turkish politician and educator
Yaşar Kaya (1938–2016), Kurdish politician
Yaşar Kemal (1923–2015), Turkish writer and journalist of Kurdish origin
Yaşar Kurt (born 1968), Turkish musician of Armenian origin
Yaşar Mumcuoğlu (born 1942), Turkish footballer
Yaşar Nezihe (1882–1971), Ottoman Turkish poet
Yaşar Okuyan (1950–2023), Turkish politician
Yaşar Nuri Öztürk (1951–2016), Turkish politician
Yaşar Ören (born 1942), Turkish cross-country skier
Yaşar Topçu (born 1941), Turkish politician and government minister
Yaşar Yakış (1938–2024), Turkish politician and government minister
Yaşar Yılmaz (born 1930), Turkish sports wrestler

Yasar

Yasar Onel, Turkish-born Swiss and American physicist
Yasar Shah, Indian politician

Middle name

Murat Yaşar Günaçgün (born 1970), Turkish pop singer
Turhan Yaşar Erdoğan (1938–2019), Turkish academic
Ümit Yaşar Oğuzcan (1926–1984), Turkish poet
Umit Yasar Toprak (died 2014), Turkish militant and sniper

Surname

See also

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