Oya (name)
Encyclopedia
Oya is a common feminine Turkish given name
. In Turkish, "Oya" means "lace", irish lace", and/or "lagestromia indica".
Turkish name
A Turkish name consists of an ad and a soyadı . Turkish names exist in a "full name" format. While there is only one soyadı in the full name, there may be more than one ad...
. In Turkish, "Oya" means "lace", irish lace", and/or "lagestromia indica".
Given name
- Oya Araslı, a Turkish law scholar and politician, and first woman group deputy chairman of Turkey (see Turkish Wikipedia article).
- Oya Aydoğan, a Turkish actor (see Turkish Wikipedia article).
- Oya Başar, a Turkish comedy actor (see Turkish Wikipedia article).
- Oya BaydarOya BaydarOya Baydar is a Turkish sociologist and writer. For a long time she was involved in socialist politics.-Education and early works:...
(born 1940), Turkish sociologist and writer. - Oya EczacıbaşıOya EczacıbaşıOya Eczacıbaşı , née Esener, is a Turkish curator. She is chair of the board of the Istanbul Modern Art Museum.She was born in 1959 in Istanbul as the daughter of the former Turkish Minister of Labour and Social Security Prof. Turhan Esener...
(born 1959), Turkish museum director. - Oya Küçümen, a Turkish singer, actor and voice artist (see Turkish Wikipedia article).
- Oya Tokgöz, a Turkish communication science and political sciencePolitical sciencePolitical Science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government and politics. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state. It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics, and the analysis of political systems and political behavior...
scholar and one of the founders of Communication sciencesCommunication SciencesCommunication sciences refers to the schools of scientific research of human communication. This perspective follows the logical positivist tradition of inquiry; most modern communication science falls into a tradition of post-positivism. Thus, communication scientists believe that there is an...
in Turkey (see Turkish Wikipedia article). - Oya Tuzcuoğlu, a Turkish diplomatDiplomatA diplomat is a person appointed by a state to conduct diplomacy with another state or international organization. The main functions of diplomats revolve around the representation and protection of the interests and nationals of the sending state, as well as the promotion of information and...
(see Turkish Wikipedia article). - Oya Okar, a Turkish actor (see Turkish Wikipedia article).
- Oya Uysal, a Turkish award winning poet (see Turkish Wikipedia article).
Surname
- Arif Oya, one of the governors of AlanyaAlanyaAlanya , formerly Alaiye, is a beach resort city and a component district of Antalya Province in the Mediterranean Region of Turkey, from the city of Antalya. On the southern coast of Turkey, the district has an area of 1,598.51 km2 and 248,286 inhabitants...
. - Berkun Oya, a Turkish actor, theatre director, theatre writer (see Turkish Wikipedia article).