Cevdet

Cevdet is a Turkish form of the Arabic name Jawdat. It is spelt variously in the Balkans as Dževdet, Djevdet or Dzhevdet. It may refer to:

Given name

Cevdet Bey, governor of the Van vilayet of the Ottoman Empire
Cevdet Can, Turkish alpine skier
Cevdet Caner, Austrian businessman
Cevdet Dermenci, Soviet Crimean Tatar battalion commander
Cevdet Erek, Turkish artist and musician
Cevdet Kerim İncedayı, Turkish army officer, politician and author
Cevdet Kılıçlar, Turkish journalist and photographer
Cevdet Mehmet Kosemen, Turkish artist and author
Cevdet Döğer, also known as Abdulla Kurd, Kurdish Islamist militant
Cevdet Sekerbegović, Bosnian footballer
Cevdet Sümer, Turkish equestrian
Cevdet Sunay, Turkish army officer
Cevdet Yılmaz, Turkish politician

People with the Balkan spelling of the name include:

Djevdet Bey, Albanian Ottoman governor
Dzhevdet Chakarov, Bulgarian politician
Dževdet Mustagrudić, Yugoslav footballer and partisan
Dževdet Šainovski, Macedonian footballer and manager

Middle name

Ahmet Cevat Emre, Turkish journalist and linguist
Ahmet Cevdet Oran, Turkish journalist
Melih Cevdet Anday, Turkish writer

Surname

Abdullah Cevdet, Ottoman intellectual and medical doctor
Ahmed Cevdet Pasha, Ottoman statesman

Fictional characters

Cevdet, main character in Turkish television drama Vatanım Sensin