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== Surnames == | == Surnames == | ||
*Until the | *Until the introduction of the Surname Law in 1934, most Turks had no surnames. | ||
* | *Before that, male Turks often used their father's name followed by '''-oğlu ("son of")''', or a nickname of the family, before their given name (e.g. Mustafa-oğlu Mehmet, Köselerin Hasan). | ||
*Before this, the traditional practice was for wives and children to take their husband’s/father’s personal name as a last name.<ref>"Turkish name", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_name, 6 March 2021.</ref> | |||
*A family name ending in –OĞLU is Turkish. The –OĞLU ending is sometimes written separately from the preceding part of the family name, but both parts are needed to record the correct family name. For example: | *A family name ending in –OĞLU is Turkish. The –OĞLU ending is sometimes written separately from the preceding part of the family name, but both parts are needed to record the correct family name. For example: | ||
::SARCOĞLU or SARC OĞLU | ::SARCOĞLU or SARC OĞLU | ||
::SULEYMANOĞLU or SULEYMAN OĞLU | ::SULEYMANOĞLU or SULEYMAN OĞLU | ||
*When women marry, they typically replace their own family name with their husband’s. However, some women use a combination of both family names. For example, if Fatma KARABACAK married Mehmet KEÇELI, she could be known as Fatma KARABACAK KEÇELI or just Fatma KEÇELI. | *When women marry, they typically replace their own family name with their husband’s. However, some women use a combination of both family names. For example, if Fatma KARABACAK married Mehmet KEÇELI, she could be known as Fatma KARABACAK KEÇELI or just Fatma KEÇELI. | ||
*Children typically take the father’s family name. | *Children typically take the father’s family name.<ref> | ||
==Given Names== | ==Given Names== | ||