Ismet

Ismet (Turkish: İsmet) is a Turkish form of the Arabic name Ismet. Along with Turkish, the name is also seen in Albanian, Bosnian, and Macedonian. The name means "honesty" or "purity" and in classical "infallibility", "immaculate", "impeccability" and "faultlessness".

Given name

• Ali İsmet Öztürk (born 1964), Turkish aerobatics pilot
• Ismet Akpinar (born 1995), German basketball player
• İsmet Atlı (1931–2014), Turkish Olympic medalist sports wrestler
• İsmet İnönü (1884–1973), second President of Turkey
• Ismet Jashari (died 1998), Albanian member of the Kosovo Liberation Army
• İsmet Kür (1916–2013), Turkish female educator, journalist, columnist and writer of mainly children's literature
• İsmet Miroğlu (1944–1997), Turkish academic
• İsmet Özel (born 1944), Turkish poet and scholar
• Ismet Horo (born 1959), Bosnian comedian
• Ismet Štilić (born 1960), former Bosnian footballer
• Ismet Alajbegović Šerbo (1925–1987), Bosnian accordionist

See also

• Ismat