# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mehdi-zana
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:09:13.200Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mehdi-zana"
name: "Mehdi Zana"
slug: "mehdi-zana"
description: "Mehdi Zana is an author and former Kurdish politician from Turkey. He is prominent Kurdish political activist a former Mayor of Diyarbakır. Following the coup de état in 1980 he was imprisoned for more than ten years."
tagline: "Turkish social reformer and statesperson (born 1940)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Mehdi_Zana_1995.jpg/330px-Mehdi_Zana_1995.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Turkey"
  isoCode: "TR"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1940"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           56.02
  momentum:             25
  historical:           8.329013333333334
  currentAttention:     100
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehdi_Zana"
    title: "Mehdi Zana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehdi_Zana"
    title: "Mehdi Zana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehdi_Zana"
    title: "Mehdi Zana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehdi_Zana"
    title: "Mehdi Zana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehd%C3%AE_Zana"
    title: "Mehdî Zana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehdi_Zana"
    title: "Mehdi Zana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehdi_Zana"
    title: "Mehdi Zana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1423181"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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