Paraguayans Naming Newborns for Turkish 'Dizi' Characters

türkçe  links to original Turkish article

(Hürriyet Newspaper, 23 September 2020)

it's not just Paraguay! click here for a previous

TNT report on this phenomenon.

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  Affecting Paraguay's import-export balance.

Turkish 'dizi' (soap operas) have been among the most-watched 

programs in Latin American countries over the past few years, to

the extent that Paraguayans have been giving their newborn

children the names of the Turkish characters. (!)

Paraguay's "Registro Del Estado Civil", the nation's population

bureau, announced on Twitter that the names of the characters in

Turkish 'dizi' such as "Fatmagül'ün Suçu Ne", "Binbir Gece", 

"Muhteşem Yüzyıl" and "İffet" are among the most popular names

given to newborns: "Şehrazad", "Kerim", "Devran" and "Mustafa".

     Referendum: Change 'Paraguay' to 'Turkdizistan' 

The population bureau also provided examples of how the Turkish

names mix in with a child's complete name: "Onur Juan Jose", 

"Sherazade Verenice", "Wilson Kemal", "Salvano Mustafa".   Those

responding to the bureau's Twitter announcement were prompted to

comment favorably that "these are all because of the Turkish 'dizi'!"