# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/deniz-y-lmaz
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:06:01.781Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/deniz-y-lmaz"
name: "Deniz Yılmaz"
slug: "deniz-y-lmaz"
description: "Deniz Yılmaz is a professional footballer who last played as a striker for Turkish club Gençlerbirliği. Born in West Germany, Yılmaz is of ethnic Turkish origin. Having represented Turkey internationally at various youth levels he initially sought to play for the Turkey senior national team. After not being nominated for the 2016 European Championship squad, he chose to play for Azerbaijan."
tagline: "Turkish association football player (born 1988)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Deniz_Y%C4%B1lmaz'13.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Turkey"
  isoCode: "TR"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1988-02-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.92
  momentum:             5.57142857142857
  historical:           10.96983733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Деніз Їлмаз"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Deniz Yılmaz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Deniz Yılmaz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Deniz Yılmaz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Deniz Yılmaz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deniz_Y%C4%B1lmaz"
    title: "Deniz Yılmaz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B2_%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B2"
    title: "دينيز يلماز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "دينيز يلماز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Deniz Yılmaz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deniz_Y%C4%B1lmaz"
    title: "Deniz Yılmaz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deniz_Y%C4%B1lmaz"
    title: "Deniz Yılmaz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%B2_%DB%8C%DB%8C%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B2"
    title: "دنیز ییلماز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deniz_Y%C4%B1lmaz_(futbolcu)"
    title: "Deniz Yılmaz (futbolcu)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q71390"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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