# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ismail-besikci
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:38:37.822Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ismail-besikci"
name: "İsmail Beşikçi"
slug: "ismail-besikci"
description: "İsmail Beşikçi is a Turkish sociologist, philosopher, revolutionist, and writer. He is a PEN Honorary Member. He has served 17 years in prison on propaganda charges stemming from his writings about the Kurdish population in Middle East."
tagline: "Turkish sociologist (born 1939)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%C4%B0smail_Be%C5%9Fik%C3%A7i%2C_2022_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Turkey"
  isoCode: "TR"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1939-01-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.67
  momentum:             4.851733119615308
  historical:           11.254756
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "اسماعيل بشيكجى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "İsmail Beşikçi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ئیسماعیل بێشکچی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "İsmail Beşikçi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "İsmail Beşikçi"
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    title: "İsmail Besikci"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "İsmail Beşikçi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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