# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karacaoglan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:45:39.812Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karacaoglan"
name: "Karacaoğlan"
slug: "karacaoglan"
description: "Karacaoğlan was a 17th-century Anatolian Turkish folk poet and ashik. His exact dates of birth and death are unknown but it is widely accepted that he was born around 1606 and died around 1679. He lived around the city of Osmaniye. His tomb, which was organized as a mausoleum in 1997, is at Karacaoğlan hill in the village of Karacaoğlan, Mut, Mersin. In this regard, he was the first known folk poet and ashik whose statue was built."
tagline: "Turkish poet"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Karacao%C4%9Flan.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Turkey"
  isoCode: "TR"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1606"
deathDate: "1680"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51
  momentum:             3.212903225806452
  historical:           12.18625866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1062793"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qaracao%C4%9Flan"
    title: "Qaracaoğlan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karacao%C4%9Flan"
    title: "Karacaoğlan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karacao%C4%9Flan"
    title: "Karacaoğlan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karacao%C4%9Flan"
    title: "Karacaoğlan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%BA%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "کاراجااوغلان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gag.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karacaoglan_%C5%9Felale_%C5%9Fiir_av%C5%9Famnar%C4%B1"
    title: "Karacaoglan şelale şiir avşamnarı"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://haw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karacao%C4%9Flan"
    title: "Karacaoğlan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karacao%C4%9Flan"
    title: "Karacaoğlan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B0%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Караджаоглан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karacao%C4%9Flan"
    title: "Karacaoğlan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karacao%C4%9Flan"
    title: "Karacaoğlan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karajaog'lan"
    title: "Karajaog'lan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karacao%C4%9Flan"
    title: "Karacaoğlan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/b23c0498-8209-4b49-81a4-57df33f04377"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3667328"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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