# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/is-k-yurtcu
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:01:01.710Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/is-k-yurtcu"
name: "Işık Yurtçu"
slug: "is-k-yurtcu"
description: "Ocak Işık Yurtçu was a Turkish reporter detained for thirty-two months between 1993-1997 by the Turkish government for his reporting on the Kurdish–Turkish conflict, a case The New York Times called \"emblematic\" of the Turkish press's struggle for press freedom in the 1990s."
tagline: "Turkish journalist (1945–2012)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Turkey"
  isoCode: "TR"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1945"
deathDate: "2012-09-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.66
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.337905333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A5%A7%E6%89%8E%C2%B7%E4%BC%8A%E8%98%87%E5%85%8B%C2%B7%E5%B0%A4%E7%88%BE%E5%A1%94"
    title: "奧扎·伊蘇克·尤爾塔"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%83_%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%83_%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%83%D9%88"
    title: "اوكاك ايسيك يورتكو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocak_I%C5%9F%C4%B1k_Yurt%C3%A7u"
    title: "Ocak Işık Yurtçu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocak_I%C5%9F%C4%B1k_Yurt%C3%A7u"
    title: "Ocak Işık Yurtçu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%95%D5%BB%D5%A1%D6%84_%D4%BB%D5%B7%D5%A8%D6%84_%D5%85%D5%B8%D6%82%D6%80%D5%A9%D5%B9%D5%B8%D6%82"
    title: "Օջաք Իշըք Յուրթչու"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AE%D1%80%D1%82%D1%87%D1%83%2C_%D0%9E%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B0%D0%BA_%D0%98%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%BA"
    title: "Юртчу, Оджак Ишик"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%C5%9F%C4%B1k_Yurt%C3%A7u"
    title: "Işık Yurtçu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2013299"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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