| Two new species of trouts, resident and migratory, sympatric in streams of northern Anatolia (Salmoniformes: Salmonidae) D Turan, M Kottelat, S Engin Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 20 (4), 333-364, 2009 | 126 | 2009 |
| A review of Capoeta tinca, with descriptions of two new species from Turkey (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) D Turan, M Kottelat, FG Ekmekci, HO Imamoglu Revue suisse de Zoologie 113 (2), 421, 2006 | 108 | 2006 |
| İyidere (Trabzon)'nin fiziko-kimyasal açıdan su kalitesinin belirlenmesi B Verep, O Serdar, D Turan, C Şahin Ekoloji 14 (57), 26-35, 2005 | 84 | 2005 |
| Salmo tigridis, a new species of trout from the Tigris River, Turkey(Teleostei: Salmonidae) D Turan, M Kottelat, Y Bektas Zootaxa 2993 (1), 23-33, 2011 | 71 | 2011 |
| The latest status and distribution of fishes in upper Tigris River and two new records for Turkish freshwaters C Kaya, D Turan, E Ünlü Turkish Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 16 (3), 545-562, 2016 | 68 | 2016 |
| Capoeta ekmekciae, a new species of cyprinid fish from northeastern Anatolia (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) D Turan, M Kottelat, SG Kirankaya, S Engin Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 17 (2), 147, 2006 | 62 | 2006 |
| The trouts of the Mediterranean drainages of southern Anatolia, Turkey, with description of three new species (Teleostei: Salmonidae) D Turan, M Kottelat, S Engin Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 23 (3), 219, 2012 | 54 | 2012 |
| Capoeta erhani, a new species of cyprinid fish from Ceyhan River, Turkey (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) D Turan, M Kottelat, FG Ekmekçi Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 19 (3), 263-270, 2008 | 51 | 2008 |
| Two new species of Squalius, S. adanaensis and S. seyhanensis (Teleostei: Cyprinidae), from the Seyhan River in Turkey D Turan, M Kottelat, E Doğan Zootaxa 3637 (3), 308-324, 2013 | 49 | 2013 |
| Squalius kottelati, a new cyprinid species (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from Orontes River, Turkey D Turan, BT Yilmaz, C Kaya Zootaxa 2270 (1), 53–62-53–62, 2009 | 46 | 2009 |
| First record of the red-mouthed goby, Gobius cruentatus (Gobiidae), in the Black Sea S Engin, D Turan, M Kovacic Cybium 31 (1), 87-88, 2007 | 46 | 2007 |
| Salmo kottelati, a new species of trout from Alakır Stream, draining to the Mediterranean in southern Anatolia, Turkey (Teleostei, Salmonidae) D Turan, E Doğan, C Kaya, M Kanyılmaz ZooKeys, 135, 2014 | 45 | 2014 |
| Alburnoides manyasensis (Actinopterygii, Cyprinidae), a new species of cyprinid fish from Manyas Lake basin, Turkey D Turan, FG Ekmekçi, C Kaya, SS Güçlü ZooKeys, 85, 2013 | 44 | 2013 |
| Molecular phylogeny of the genus Capoeta (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) in Anatolia, Turkey Y Bektas, D Turan, I Aksu, Y Ciftci, O Eroglu, G Kalayci, AO Belduz Biochemical Systematics and Ecology 70, 80-94, 2017 | 43 | 2017 |
| Three new species of Alburnoides (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from Euphrates River, Eastern Anatolia, Turkey D Turan, C Kaya, F EKMEKÇİ, E Dogan Zootaxa 3754 (2), 2014 | 41 | 2014 |
| Generic assignment of Leuciscus kurui Bogutskaya from the upper Tigris drainage, and a replacement name for Alburnus kurui Mangit & Yerli (Teleostei … J Freyhof, C Kaya, E Baycelebi, M Geiger, D Turan Zootaxa 4410 (1), 113–135-113–135, 2018 | 40 | 2018 |
| Review of the Oxynoemacheilus tigris group with the description of two new species from the Euphrates drainage (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). J Freyhof, C Kaya, D Turan, M Geiger Zootaxa 4612 (1), zootaxa. 4612.1. 2-zootaxa. 4612.1. 2, 2019 | 39 | 2019 |
| Fish fauna of Çoruh River and two first record for Turkey E Bayçelebi, D Turan, B Japoshvili Turkish Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 783-794, 2015 | 39 | 2015 |
| Two new species of trouts from the Euphrates drainage, Turkey (Teleostei: Salmonidae) D Turan, M Kottelat, S Engin Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 24 (3), 275-287, 2014 | 39 | 2014 |
| Barbus niluferensis, a new species of barbel (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from Nilüfer River, Turkey, with re-description of B. oligolepis D Turan, M Kottelat, FG Ekmekçi Zootaxa 1981 (1), 15–28-15–28, 2009 | 39 | 2009 |
