# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ergun-poyraz
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:06:52.142Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ergun-poyraz"
name: "Ergün Poyraz"
slug: "ergun-poyraz"
description: "Ergün Poyraz is a prolific Turkish author known for his controversial books about the ruling Justice and Development Party, the Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen, and people associated with them. He is best known for his 2007 book The Children of Moses, which accused Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his wife of being secret Jews and of cooperating with Israeli intelligence to undermine Turkish secularism. He was arrested in 2007 and was a defendant in the Ergenekon trials; on 5 August 2013, he was sentenced to 29 years in prison."
tagline: "Turkish writer (born 1963)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Erg%C3%BCn_Poyraz_at_Kocaeli_Book_Exhibition%2C_May_2016.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Turkey"
  isoCode: "TR"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1963-01-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.09
  momentum:             7.829555807083897
  historical:           5.718074666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erg%C3%BCn_Poyraz"
    title: "Ergün Poyraz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D8%B1%D8%BA%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B2"
    title: "إرغون بويراز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%BE%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B2"
    title: "ارجون پويراز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erg%C3%BCn_Poyraz"
    title: "Ergün Poyraz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erg%C3%BCn_Poyraz"
    title: "Ergün Poyraz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erg%C3%BCn_Poyraz"
    title: "Ergün Poyraz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6099143"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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