Türkan (name)

Türkan is a Turkish female given name that means princess and title of nobility.^[1]

• Türkan Hanımsultan (1919-1989), Ottoman princess
• Türkân Akyol (1928–2017), Turkish politician and former government minister
• Türkan Erişmiş (born 1984), Turkish middle-distance runner
• Türkan Feyzullah (1983–1984), female murder victim
• Türkan Haliloğlu, Turkish biochemist
• Türkan Örs Baştuğ (1900–1975), Turkish school teacher, politician and one of the first (1915–2007), first ever Turkish professor of jurisprudence female members of the parliament
• Türkan Rado (1915–2007), first ever Turkish female professor of jurisprudence
• Türkan Saylan (1935–2009), Turkish physician
• Türkan Şoray (born 1945), Turkish film actress