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Sevan Nişanyan is a Turkish lexicologist, historian, political commentator and travel writer who was compelled to leave his country in 2017 and has lived in exile in the Greek island of Samos since.

He offers online, entirely free of charge, the following amenities:

1. The Nişanyan Dictionary, the authoritative etymological dictionary of the modern Turkish language, analyzing the sources and earliest attested textual specimens of over 30.000 Turkish words. 

2. Index Anatolicus, an indispensable source for Anatolian studies. It documents over 50.000 Turkish place names and traces their roots in a bewildering array of local cultures.

3. Nişanyan Names, by far the most thorough dictionary of Turkish (as well as Kurdish, Armenian, Greek, Azeri and Christian Arab) personal names with over 85.000 entries, including their distribution by geographical region and year of birth.

4. A weekly podcast and a weekly question-and-answer session on live video, followed by 15.000 subscribers on the average.

5. A regularly updated Blog with an back-archive of over 550 fascinating articles by the author.

Your voluntary contributions will help keep all services free of charge, as they should be.