Furkan
Furkan is the Turkish spelling of the Arabic Islamic masculine given name Furqan (Arabic: فُرقَان furqān), which means "criterion, proof, evidence, affirmation, testament".
People with the name include:
- Furkan Aldemir (born 1991), Turkish basketball player with Galatasaray
- Furkan Asena Aydın (born 1992), Turkish female taekwondo practitioner (middleweight division)
- Furkan Aydın (born 1991), Turkish footballer
- Furkan Doğan (1991–2010), Turkish-American student killed in the Gaza flotilla raid
- Furkan Korkmaz (born 1997), Turkish basketball player for the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers
- Furkan Özçal (born 1990), in a Turkish footballer
- Furkan Ulaş Memiş (born 1991), Turkish amateur boxer who competed at the 2008 Olympics at flyweight
- Furkan Yalçınkaya (born 1986), Turkish volleyball player
See also
- Al-Furqan (Arabic: سورة الفرقان ) (The Criterion, The Standard), the 25th sura of the Qur'an with 77 ayat
- Furqan Force, volunteer fighting force when Pakistan was formed
- The True Furqan, al-Furqan al-Haqq, a book written in Arabic mirroring the Qur'an but incorporating elements of traditional Christian teachings
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