# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ermal-kuqo
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:22:33.186Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ermal-kuqo"
name: "Ermal Kuqo"
slug: "ermal-kuqo"
description: "Ermal Kuqo is a retired Albanian-Turkish professional basketball player who played the majority of his career for Efes Pilsen. He is also a basketball executive for the New York Knicks of the NBA working as Senior Director of Minor League Operations. He was previously with the Los Angeles Clippers of the NBA working as Director of International Pro Player Personnel. He is widely accepted as the greatest Albanian basketball player of all times. Kuqo was a part of the Turkish national team from 2004 until 2010, but in the summer of 2010 got granted the wish to play for his birth country Albania national team."
tagline: "Turkish basketball player (born 1980)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ermal_Kuqo_Euroleague_Awards_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Basketball Players"
  slug: "basketball-players"
profileType:
  name: "Basketball Player"
  slug: "basketball-player"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3665646"
birthDate: "1980-02-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.42
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.898598666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ermal_Kurto%C4%9Flu"
    title: "Ermal Kurtoğlu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%84_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%83%D9%88"
    title: "ارمال كوكو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ermal_Kuqo"
    title: "Ermal Kuqo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ermal_Kuqo"
    title: "Ermal Kuqo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%84_%DA%A9%D9%88%DA%A9%D9%88"
    title: "ارمال کوکو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ermal_Kuqo"
    title: "Ermal Kuqo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ermal_Kuqo"
    title: "Ermal Kuqo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ermal_Kuqo"
    title: "Ermal Kuqo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ermal_Kuqo"
    title: "Ermal Kuqo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2538539"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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