# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ozturk-y-lmaz
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:46:20.297Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ozturk-y-lmaz"
name: "Öztürk Yılmaz"
slug: "ozturk-y-lmaz"
description: "Öztürk Yılmaz is a Turkish former diplomat and politician. Having served as the Turkish embassy secretary to Kyrgyzstan and Brazil, he was appointed as the Consul General of Turkey to Mosul in 2013. He was taken hostage in June 2014 and held for 101 days along with 48 other diplomats after Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant militants took over the city, being released under undisclosed circumstances by the Turkish National Intelligence Organisation (MİT) on 20 September 2014. He was elected as a Member of Parliament for the electoral district of Ardahan from the Republican People's Party (CHP) in November 2015 general election. In 2018, Yılmaz became an independent. In 2020, Yılmaz founded the Innovation Party."
tagline: "Turkish diplomat and statesperson (born 1969)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ozturk_Yilmaz.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Turkey"
  isoCode: "TR"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1969-09-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.24
  momentum:             9.423076923076923
  historical:           5.619378666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/ozturkyilmazCHP"
    handle:    "ozturkyilmazCHP"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96zt%C3%BCrk_Y%C4%B1lmaz"
    title: "Öztürk Yılmaz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%88%D8%B2%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%83_%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B2"
    title: "أوزتورك يلماز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%99%D0%BE%D0%B7%D1%82%D1%8E%D1%80%D0%BA_%D0%99%D1%8A%D0%BB%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%B7"
    title: "Йозтюрк Йълмаз"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96zt%C3%BCrk_Y%C4%B1lmaz"
    title: "Öztürk Yılmaz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96zt%C3%BCrk_Y%C4%B1lmaz"
    title: "Öztürk Yılmaz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%99%D1%8B%D0%BB%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%B7%2C_%D0%9E%D0%B7%D1%82%D1%8E%D1%80%D0%BA"
    title: "Йылмаз, Озтюрк"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21528341"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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