# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ahmet-s-k
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:01:35.149Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ahmet-s-k"
name: "Ahmet Şık"
slug: "ahmet-s-k"
description: "Ahmet Şık is a Turkish investigative journalist, the author of several books, a trade unionist, and member of Parliament in Turkey. His book, The Imam's Army, investigating the controversial Gülen movement of the Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen, led to his detention for a year in 2011–2012 and the book's being seized and banned. He was under indictment in the OdaTV case of the Ergenekon trials; his cause has been taken up by English PEN, an association of writers fighting for freedom of expression. In 2016, the prosecutor in this case requested Şık's acquittal. On 29 December 2016, Şık was taken into custody once again on charges of \"propaganda of terrorist organisations\", with reference to 11 tweets that he had published. The following day, an Istanbul judge ordered Ahmet's arrest. According to lawyers, Şık was denied access to legal advice, held in solitary confinement, and not given drinking water for three days. He ran as an HDP candidate in 2018 Turkish elections and got elected from Istanbul's second electoral district. In 2020, he resigned from HDP, citing political differences and after sitting as an independent for a year, he joined the Workers' Party of Turkey."
tagline: "Turkish journalist and statesperson (born 1970)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ahmet_%C5%9E%C4%B1k.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Turkey"
  isoCode: "TR"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1970-05-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.19
  momentum:             2.063314711359404
  historical:           7.983270666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/sahmetsahmet"
    handle:    "sahmetsahmet"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "أحمد شيك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "احمد شيك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmet_%C5%9E%C4%B1k"
    title: "Ahmet Şık"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmet_%C5%9E%C4%B1k"
    title: "Ahmet Şık"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF_%D8%B4%DB%8C%DA%A9"
    title: "احمد شیک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmet_%C5%9E%C4%B1k"
    title: "Ahmet Şık"
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  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmet_%C5%9E%C4%B1k"
    title: "Ahmet Şık"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmet_%C5%9E%C4%B1k"
    title: "Ahmet Şık"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q402020"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump