# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/goksin-sipahioglu
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:58:26.358Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/goksin-sipahioglu"
name: "Gökşin Sipahioğlu"
slug: "goksin-sipahioglu"
description: "Gökşin Sipahioğlu was a Turkish photographer and journalist who founded the Paris-based photo agency Sipa Press. He spent most of his life in Paris where the French media dubbed him \"le Grand Turc\". He also helped found the Kadiköy Sports Club, now best known for the Efes Pilsen basketball team."
tagline: "Turkish photojournalist (1926–2011)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Turkey"
  isoCode: "TR"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1926-12-28"
deathDate: "2011-10-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.52
  momentum:             3.268056054617319
  historical:           6.820556
  currentAttention:     11.01928374655647
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6k%C5%9Fin_Sipahio%C4%9Flu"
    title: "Gökşin Sipahioğlu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%83%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%BE%D8%A7%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%AC%D9%84%D9%88"
    title: "جوكسين سيپاهيوجلو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6k%C5%9Fin_Sipahio%C4%9Flu"
    title: "Gökşin Sipahioğlu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6k%C5%9Fin_Sipahio%C4%9Flu"
    title: "Gökşin Sipahioğlu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6k%C5%9Fin_Sipahio%C4%9Flu"
    title: "Gökşin Sipahioğlu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6k%C5%9Fin_Sipahio%C4%9Flu"
    title: "Gökşin Sipahioğlu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6k%C5%9Fin_Sipahio%C4%9Flu"
    title: "Gökşin Sipahioğlu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6k%C5%9Fin_Sipahio%C4%9Flu"
    title: "Gökşin Sipahioğlu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q531560"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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