# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/basak-demirtas
# Generated: 2026-09-04T22:58:07.629Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/basak-demirtas"
name: "Başak Demirtaş"
slug: "basak-demirtas"
description: "Başak Demirtaş is a Kurdish teacher from Turkey, author, and the wife of Selahattin Demirtaş, the former leader of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), who she has been campaigning to get released from prison since 2016."
tagline: "Kurdish-Turkish teacher, author, and the wife of Selahattin Demirtaş"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ba%C5%9Fak_Demirta%C5%9F_and_Pervin_Buldan_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Turkey"
  isoCode: "TR"
birthDate: "1977"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.2
  momentum:             1.882008776206728
  historical:           6.687732
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ba%C5%9Fak_Demirta%C5%9F"
    title: "Başak Demirtaş"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%83_%D8%AF%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B4"
    title: "باشاك دميرتاش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ba%C5%9Fak_Demirta%C5%9F"
    title: "Başak Demirtaş"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B4%D8%A7%DA%A9_%D8%AF%DB%95%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B4"
    title: "باشاک دەمیرتاش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://diq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ba%C5%9Fak_Demirta%C5%9F"
    title: "Başak Demirtaş"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9C%CF%80%CE%B1%CF%83%CE%AC%CE%BA_%CE%9D%CF%84%CE%B5%CE%BC%CE%B9%CF%81%CF%84%CE%AC%CF%82"
    title: "Μπασάκ Ντεμιρτάς"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ba%C5%9Fak_Demirta%C5%9F"
    title: "Başak Demirtaş"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ba%C5%9Fak_Demirta%C5%9F"
    title: "Başak Demirtaş"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q62057770"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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