# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/arin-mirkan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:04:34.083Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/arin-mirkan"
name: "Arîn Mîrkan"
slug: "arin-mirkan"
description: "Arin Mirkan was a Western Kurdish female fighter in the Women's Protection Units (YPJ) who died fighting against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) during the Siege of Kobanî on October 5, 2014. She fought on Mishtanour Hill with Rojda Felat, who later became the general commander of the YPJ. On the hill, Mirkan killed herself, along with numerous ISIL fighters, with explosives, to avoid being captured alive by ISIS."
tagline: "Kurdish combatant"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Arin_Mirkan_Hassake.jpg/330px-Arin_Mirkan_Hassake.jpg"
gender: "female"
birthDate: "1992"
deathDate: "2014-10-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.28
  momentum:             0.7057057057057058
  historical:           6.159001333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arin_Mirkan"
    title: "Arin Mirkan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ar%C3%AEn_M%C3%AErkan"
    title: "Arîn Mîrkan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A6%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%86_%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%B1%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "ئارین میرکان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arin_Mirkan"
    title: "Arin Mirkan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arin_Mirkan"
    title: "Arin Mirkan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arin_Mirkan"
    title: "Arin Mirkan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ar%C3%AEn_M%C3%AErkan"
    title: "Arîn Mîrkan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24039895"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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