Farewell, Mr Testicle: Turkey helps citizens ditch embarrassing names
More than 105,000 people apply to change misspelled and humorous names
“I’m getting rid of my name,” said Karaca Satılmış, an actor from Istanbul. “It has held me back professionally.”
Satılmış means “sold”, and, to Turkish speakers, it is very amusing. The 35-year-old doesn’t understand why his grandfather chose it.
In , many people only took on surnames in
