# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mehmet-haberal
# Generated: 2026-08-15T14:29:25.221Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mehmet-haberal"
name: "Mehmet Haberal"
slug: "mehmet-haberal"
description: "Mehmet Haberal, is the founder of Başkent University in Ankara, Turkey, best known for becoming the first transplant surgeon in Turkey after leading the team that performed Turkey's first living-related kidney transplant in 1975, after he returned from surgical training under the mentorship of American surgeon Thomas Starzl, with whom he also performed some of the longest surviving early liver transplantations."
tagline: "Turkish surgeon (born 1944)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mehmethaberal_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Turkey"
  isoCode: "TR"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1944-10-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.22
  momentum:             1.128080957175246
  historical:           4.747384
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%87%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AA_%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%84"
    title: "ميهميت هابيرال"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehmet_Haberal"
    title: "Mehmet Haberal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9C%CE%B5%CF%87%CE%BC%CE%AD%CF%84_%CE%A7%CE%B1%CE%BC%CF%80%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%AC%CE%BB"
    title: "Μεχμέτ Χαμπεράλ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehmet_Haberal"
    title: "Mehmet Haberal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehmet_Haberal"
    title: "Mehmet Haberal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1917336"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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