Islam

Sumeyye Arslan was in her penultimate year of medical school when Turkey's military led a crackdown on "Islamic reactionaries" in 1998.

Until earlier this year, one 19-year-old student from the Tajik capital, Dushanbe, was known as Shohrukh to his friends and family.

But he recently decided to ditch his "purely Tajik" first name and now answers to "Muhammad," the name of Islam's prophet.