Adib Shishakli
Adib Shishakli was born (1909) in the Hama Sanjak of Ottoman Syria to a Syrian family of Kurdish people / origin. His family name, Shishakli, is a common Turkish-Kurdish surname derived from Turkish word "çiçek" which means flower and çiçekli (Shishakli) means someone or some place with flowers in Turkish. A lot of Turkish Kurds and Kurds who were directly influenced by the Ottoman Empire had taken up Turkish influenced Surnames and Names.