Surname Arkan (اركان 
, Arkan 
, أركان 
) , in the world, is a common cognomen. The last name Arkan is characteristic of Iraq, where it is quite a common surname, Turkey, and North Macedonia, where it is quite a rare surname. Not in comparison with a country's population, the name is most common in Iraq, Turkey, and Indonesia. More frequently, Arkan is the forename as well as the last name.
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| اركان | Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Egypt |
| Arkan | India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Iraq, Turkey |
| أركان | Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Egypt |
| Аркан | Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan |
| mehmet sami arkan Turkish politician, TR (b. 1887) |
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| akif arkan Turkish politician (1889-1952), TR (b. 1889) |
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| seyfi arkan Turkish architect (b. 1903) |
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| muzaffer arkan TR (b. 1923) |
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| ahmet arkan politician, TR (b. 1943) |
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| edyanto arkan Indonesian politician (born 1959), ID (b. 1959) |
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| hüsnü arkan (b. 1958) |
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| çağlayan arkan (b. 1962) |
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| evren f arkan researcher |
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| gulcihan arkan researcher (ORCID 0000-0002-6085-5831) |
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| elham arkan researcher |
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| burcu arkan researcher (ORCID 0000-0002-7285-6196) |
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| ilhan arkan |
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