# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/murat-karay-lan
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:00:22.948Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/murat-karay-lan"
name: "Murat Karayılan"
slug: "murat-karay-lan"
description: "Murat Karayılan, also nicknamed Cemal, is one of the co-founders of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). He became the PKK's acting leader after its original founder and leader, Abdullah Öcalan, was captured in 1999 by Turkish intelligence agents. In 2014, he left the PKK leader position and was assigned as the new commander-in-chief of the PKK's armed wing, the People's Defence Forces."
tagline: "Acting military commander of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Polat_Can%26Murat_Karayilan_(cropped)_-_Murat_Karayilan.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Turkey"
  isoCode: "TR"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1954-06-05"
deathDate: "2023-09-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           54.25
  momentum:             1.616665258176287
  historical:           16.894856
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7643626/"
    handle:    "nm7643626"
sources:
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    title: "Murat Karayılan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مراد قرايلان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Мурат Карайълан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Murat Karayılan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Murat Karayılan"
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    title: "Murat Karayılan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Murat Karayılan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "מוראט קראילאן"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Murat Karayılan"
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    title: "Murat Karayılan"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Murat Karayılan"
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    title: "Карайылан, Мурат"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murat_Karay%C4%B1lan"
    title: "Murat Karayılan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q611767"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4119857"
    title: "Murat Karayilan"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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