# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nurcan-baysal
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:15:37.780Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nurcan-baysal"
name: "Nurcan Baysal"
slug: "nurcan-baysal"
description: "Nurcan Baysal is a Turkish Kurd journalist from Turkey, based in Diyarbakır. In 2018 she was named Global Laureate for Human Rights Defenders at Risk by Front Line Defenders, an Irish human rights NGO."
tagline: "Turkish journalist of Kurdish ancestry (born 1975)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/185A9712.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Turkey"
  isoCode: "TR"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1975"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.63
  momentum:             20.07936507936508
  historical:           7.070086666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurcan_Baysal"
    title: "Nurcan Baysal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurcan_Baysal"
    title: "Nurcan Baysal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurcan_Baysal"
    title: "Nurcan Baysal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A8%DB%95%DB%8C%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%84"
    title: "نورجان بەیسال"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurcan_Baysal"
    title: "Nurcan Baysal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurcan_Baysal"
    title: "Nurcan Baysal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hif.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurcan_Baysal"
    title: "Nurcan Baysal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurcan_Baysal"
    title: "Nurcan Baysal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurcan_Baysal"
    title: "Nurcan Baysal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55627130"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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