Yusuf Isa Halim (also transliterated in Romanian as Iusuf Isa Halim; ) (1894âÂÂ1982) was a Dobrujan-born Tatar poet, schoolteacher and linguist known for authoring the first Romanian-Turkish dictionary.
Yusuf Isa was born in 1894 in BÃÂlbÃÂl, today officially known as Ciocârlia, a Nogai village situated in the Tatar countryside west of Mangalia, in Dobruja. He graduated in 1915 from the Medrese of MedÃÂidiye/Medgidia and he served as a schoolteacher in Malà Âuwa/Abrud, Kavarna, Pazarjik, Bogaz-Kóy (CernavodÃÂ). In 1930 he published in Pazarjik, now Dobrich in Bulgaria, the first Romanian-Turkish dictionary.