# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leyla-imret
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:18:51.835Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leyla-imret"
name: "Leyla İmret"
slug: "leyla-imret"
description: "Leyla İmret is a Turkish politician of Kurdish origin. She grew up in Germany but returned to her home country in 2013 and was elected mayor of Cizre on 31 March 2014. She was dismissed from her position by the government on 11 September 2015 after the siege of Cizre during the Kurdish-Turkish conflict. She eventually fled to Germany where she has continued to speak out against human rights abuses in the region. She is the subject of a 2017 documentary film, Dil Leyla and winner of the ILHR's 2018 Carl von Ossietzky Medal."
tagline: "Turkish statesperson (born 1987)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Leyla_%C4%B0mret_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Turkey"
  isoCode: "TR"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1987"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.09
  momentum:             15.6318082788671
  historical:           10.08423466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9110562/"
    handle:    "nm9110562"
sources:
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    title: "Leyla İmret"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BB%D0%B0_%D0%86%D0%BC%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%82"
    title: "Лейла Імрет"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Лейля Имрет"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "লায়লা ইমরেত"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leyla_%C4%B0mret"
    title: "Leyla İmret"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leyla_%C3%8Emret"
    title: "Leyla Îmret"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leyla_%C4%B0mret"
    title: "Leyla İmret"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%9A%E1%83%94%E1%83%98%E1%83%9A%E1%83%90_%E1%83%98%E1%83%9B%E1%83%A0%E1%83%94%E1%83%A2%E1%83%98"
    title: "ლეილა იმრეტი"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leyla_%C3%8Emret"
    title: "Leyla Îmret"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leyla_%C4%B0mret"
    title: "Leyla İmret"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leyla_%C4%B0mret"
    title: "Leyla İmret"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D0%BC%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%82%2C_%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BB%D0%B0"
    title: "Имрет, Лейла"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16295484"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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