Dears,
i really hope my colleagues from work made a stupid joke! maybe you know for sure ...
when becoming a turkish citizen someone NEEDS TO CHANGE HIS NAME? meaning to take turkish name?
not to be confusions: Andreea Inankur ... tamammm, Inankur i got married, took my husbands family name ...
I understood i need to change Andreea into turkish name, which WONT HAPPEN!!!
I prefer not taking the citizenship than changing my name ... its absurd!
Thanks!
ANDREEA Inankur for ever!

Look...do not be awkward...

Wont they let you become Andreea Ayse Inankur? or Ayse Andreea Inankur, which ever those buggers agree?

Check it out...They can not refuse that........

NOT even!!! anyway my grandmother in law is telling me Ayse because Andreea its hard at her age to say and remember and i dont mind coming from her part!
BUT NO ONE IS CHAINGING MY NAME or ADDING SMTH!
What is this? My parents named me Andreea, its the name they love and i love, all my documents are on the name of Andreea, they are coming now and saying to take turkish name!
The name wont make me TURK! Ne mutlu turkum diyene, means what a happiness for the one than can call himself turk, not for the one that takes turkish names and lives in turkey ... with the risk to step on Article 301 i wont change my name and take turkish citizenship! I will pay 600 YTL / year for that ikamet teskeresi for the rest of my life, but I don’t care!
sorry guys but it seems very absurd to me ...

It sounds really absurd and I don't see how they can demand you change your name..but then again it's Turkey, you never know

Azade, what was your original name, Maria?

Andreea, do not be hysterical ...
There are advantages in taking up a second name in Turkish, that you will appreciate later...You do not have to drop your original name...

Good-bye Andreea...It was nice while it lasted...

If you are in Rome, act like Romans........

That is insincere....marriages do not work like that, take my word for it !

There are many Greek, Armenian etc. citizens of Turkia. They have no problem giving their children names that they please.

I dont think you will be forced to change your name against your wishes.. It will be smart, if you do !

I am not annoyed...I want you to be happy !

Jewish citizens in Turkia can also name theirs kids, as they please,

As far as I know, Jewish citizens of Turkia refused to be considered as minority in Turkia (out of their own will) and renounced the minority rights, opting to become normal ordinary Turkish citizens.

Cane suits you fine....

Inankur, I really hope that you understood this wrong and that adopting a Turkish name is not a requirement for a Turkish nationality!

Right now I can say I never want one. Think of it, you make a bad comment about Atatürk and suddenly you will be put in jail for something all your life you have thought to be very undemocratic and rather ridiculous if not hilarious. So, no thanks, not for me!

Anyway, ask Marioninturkey, she does have a Turkish citizenship.

You can not build your whole life on stupid aspirations as preached by Deli-kizin..

Consider carefully...Why should you ever wish to insult Ataturk?

As far as I know (and the law may have changed and my info out of date) but there is a different rule for men and women.

I did not have to change my name when I married my Turkish husband. But a male friend of mine here who married a Turkish lady was forced to take a Turkish name when he took dual citizenship. He was in the office sorting out the citizenship and the women in the office asked him for his Turkish name, he did not think of one so the ladies in the office chose one for him right there and then ! His son also had to have a Turkish name when he was born.

I HATE this law because as someone mentioned here before, these names are given to us by our parents, something our parents sat and thought about when our mothers were carrying us in their wombs. It is a part of us and should never be forced to change.

If I have children, I must give them Turkish names - perhaps I would like to name my son after my father !

However, look around you in the street and you will see; English Time or English Home, or Claires, or Pastry Dreams - all English names for business even though this is also illegal.

Perhaps ENDER will be a nice Turkish name for you....cant think of anything else that rhymes with Andreea.

law rules must be objective and has to save main rights,and i think name is one of the main right for a person and this right have to save whatever,and i think no harm to be citizen with any name unless it doesn't opposite or against to ethical and moral values.And i think some court decissions about that for keep ''name right''..jale or jane,Ahmet or Andre,Cemil or Jack any difference if they both willing to share same fate?

ENDER = RARE, hard to find

Yes...You can call your first son Mustafa Kemal....

Very good !

All you have to do is to compare your grand father-in-law with the peanuts asking for their rights to curse Ataturk. You will immediately understand the difference in quality.

We shall not let you curse or insult Ataturk. At least, while you are in Turkia.

No. kidding !