# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/raymond-westerling
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:05:36.357Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/raymond-westerling"
name: "Raymond Westerling"
slug: "raymond-westerling"
description: "Raymond Pierre Paul Westerling was a Dutch military officer of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army. He orchestrated a counter-guerrilla operation in Sulawesi during the Indonesian National Revolution after World War II and participated in a coup attempt against the Government of Indonesia in January 1950, a month after the official transfer of sovereignty. Both actions were denounced as war crimes by the Indonesian authorities. Born in the Ottoman Empire, despite his nickname, The Turk, Westerling was of mixed Dutch and Greek descent."
tagline: "Dutch military commander (1919–1987)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Raymond_Westerling.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1919-08-31"
deathDate: "1987-11-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.96
  momentum:             0.03352636391344103
  historical:           6.103690666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Westerling"
    title: "Raymond Westerling"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Westerling"
    title: "Raymond Westerling"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Westerling"
    title: "Raymond Westerling"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Westerling"
    title: "Raymond Westerling"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Westerling"
    title: "Raymond Westerling"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Westerling"
    title: "Raymond Westerling"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q723945"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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