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Nusret Sancaklı (born 1954) is a Turkish scholar and seismologist.

Biography
Sancaklı was born in Yugoslavia in 1954. He immigrated to Turkey with his family in 1960, graduating from Istanbul University's Department of Geophysical Engineering in 1978 and worked at the Kandilli Observatory. From 1981 to 1984, he studied abroad at the University of Tokyo's Earthquake Research Institute through a scholarship granted by the Japanese government.

During his studies in Japan, he and his wife felt embarrassed whenever they had to explain that they were from Toruko (トルコ) since people would conflate it with Toruko-buro (トルコ風呂), a Japanese term that became an innuendo for a brothel's services after the Prostitution Prevention Law went into effect. After finishing his studies, Sancaklı initiated a campaign to change the name in the summer of 1984, which netted the attention of then-journalist Yuriko Koike and the Minister of Health and Welfare Kōzō Watanabe. The campaigns quickly succeeded with brothel owners agreeing to change the term to soapland (ソープランド).

Upon returning to Turkey, he quit his job at the Kandilli Observatory to focus on tourism between Japan and Turkey. Sancaklı wrote a number of books and guides on the Japanese language, establishing courses in Cappadocia and Istanbul, then he began to teach said courses at Erciyes University in Kayseri from 1994 to 1998.