Bekir Explained

Bekir is a Turkish given name for males which comes from Abu Bakr, the first Caliph of Islam.

Given name

• Bekir Fikri (1882–1914), Ottoman officer and revolutionary
• Bekir Sıtkı Bircan (1886–1967), Turkish footballer
• Bekir Bozdağ (born 1965), Turkish lawyer and politician
• Bekir Büyükarkın (1921–1998), Turkish poet, novelist and playwright
• Bekir Çoban-zade (1893–1937), Crimean Tatar poet and professor of Turkic languages
• Bekir Coşkun, Turkish journalist
• Bekir Sıtkı Erdoğan (1926–2014), Turkish poet and songwriter
• Bekir Sami Günsav (1879–1934), officer of the Ottoman Army
• Bekir İrtegün (born 1984), Turkish footballer
• Bekir Karayel (born 1982), Turkish middle and long-distance runner
• Bekir Sami Kunduh, Turkish politician
• Bekir Küçükay, Turkish classical guitarist
• Bekir Ozan Has (born 1985), Turkish footballer
• Bekir Sami Kunduh (1867–1933), Turkish foreign minister
• Bakr Sidqi, Iraqi nationalist and general of Kurdish origin
• Bekir Özlü (born 1988), Georgian-Turkish judoka
• Bekir Rasim (born 1994), Bulgarian footballer of Turkish descent
• Bekir Refet (1899–1977), Turkish football player
• Bekir Sıtkı Sezgin (1936–1996), Turkish musician
• Bekir Yarangüme (born 1977), Turkish basketball player
• Muhamed Bekir Kalajdžić (1892–1963), Bosnian writer, bookseller and publisher

Surname

• Erol Bekir (born 1974), Swedish-Macedonian football manager and former player of Turkish origin