# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mehmet-altan
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:47:41.043Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mehmet-altan"
name: "Mehmet Altan"
slug: "mehmet-altan"
description: "Mehmet Hasan Altan is a Turkish academic economist, journalist, and author of over 25 books. Describing himself as a \"Marxist-liberal\", he is the originator of the term \"Second Republic\", arguing that Turkey needs to reconstitute its republic as a true democracy. He is a strong supporter of the Accession of Turkey to the European Union."
tagline: "Turkish economist and journalist (born 1953)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mehmet_Altan.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Turkey"
  isoCode: "TR"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1953-01-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.73
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.040572
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehmet_Altan"
    title: "Mehmet Altan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%87%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "ميهميت التان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehmet_Altan"
    title: "Mehmet Altan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehmet_Altan"
    title: "Mehmet Altan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehmet_Altan"
    title: "Mehmet Altan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehmet_Altan"
    title: "Mehmet Altan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehmet_Altan"
    title: "Mehmet Altan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehmet_Altan"
    title: "Mehmet Altan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1828305"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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