# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cengiz-aktar
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:51:15.036Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/cengiz-aktar"
name: "Cengiz Aktar"
slug: "cengiz-aktar"
description: "Cengiz Aktar is a Turkish political scientist, essayist and columnist. He has published numerous books on the European Union and its relations with Turkey. He was a director at the UNHCR and worked extensively with the European Commission. He initiated a campaign calling for an apology of the Turkish citizens towards the Armenians for the Armenian genocide."
tagline: "Turkish political scientist (born 1955)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cengiz_Aktar_(portrait).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Turkey"
  isoCode: "TR"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1955-06-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.61
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.480454666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/AktarCengiz"
    handle:    "AktarCengiz"
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cengiz_Aktar"
    title: "Cengiz Aktar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B2_%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1"
    title: "سينجيز اكتار"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cengiz_Aktar"
    title: "Cengiz Aktar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cengiz_Aktar"
    title: "Cengiz Aktar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8B%D5%A5%D5%B6%D5%A3%D5%AB%D5%A6_%D4%B1%D6%84%D5%A9%D5%A1%D6%80"
    title: "Ջենգիզ Աքթար"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%80%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%B8%D0%B7"
    title: "Актар, Дженгиз"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6095972"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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