the Turkish writer, Irfan Orga,3 writing about how Turks had begun to invent family names during the time of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, and about how he himself had chosen as his surname Urga, the name of a fishing village in Uzbekistan near the Aral Sea, turning the initial u into an o to make it sound more Turkish. So Ordu would have to be Urdu in Uzbek. The Golden Horde! ‘Horde’ was the English word that corresponded to ‘Urdu’.
