# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gultan-k-sanak
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:15:40.798Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gultan-k-sanak"
name: "Gültan Kışanak"
slug: "gultan-k-sanak"
description: "Gültan Kışanak is a Kurdish journalist, author and politician from Turkey. Kışanak was born in Elazığ in 1961. Her family is originally from Tunceli. She is a former member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey and Head of Municipality of Diyarbakır. She has been imprisoned since October 2016."
tagline: "Turkish journalist and statesperson (born 1961)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/G%C3%BClten_K%C4%B1%C5%9Fanak_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Turkey"
  isoCode: "TR"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1961-06-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.85
  momentum:             8.835978835978835
  historical:           13.03586133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "غولتان كيشاناك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جولتان كيساناك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Gültan Kışanak"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Gültan Kışanak"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Gültan Kışanak"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCltan_K%C4%B1%C5%9Fanak"
    title: "Gültan Kışanak"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "گولتن کیشاناک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Gültan Kışanak"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCltan_K%C4%B1%C5%9Fanak"
    title: "Gültan Kışanak"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Gültan Kışanak"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Gültan Kışanak"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%8B%D1%88%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BA%2C_%D0%93%D1%8E%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Кышанак, Гюльтан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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