# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sakine-cans-z
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:55:48.350Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sakine-cans-z"
name: "Sakine Cansız"
slug: "sakine-cans-z"
description: "Sakine Cansız was one of the co-founders of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). A Kurdish activist and in the 1980s, she was arrested and tortured by Turkish police. A close associate of Abdullah Öcalan and a senior member of the PKK, she was shot dead during the triple murder of Kurdish activists in Paris, France, on 10 January 2013, along with two other female Kurdish activists, Fidan Doğan and Leyla Söylemez."
tagline: "Kurdish activist, co-founder of PKK"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Turkey"
  isoCode: "TR"
birthDate: "1958-02-12"
deathDate: "2013-01-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           57.12
  momentum:             10
  historical:           20.18639333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakine_Cans%C4%B1z"
    title: "Sakine Cansız"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "সাকিঁ জান্সিজ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sak%C3%AEne_Cansiz"
    title: "Sakîne Cansiz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "سەکینە جانسز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sakine Cansızová"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sak%C3%AEne_Cansiz"
    title: "Sakîne Cansiz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakine_Cans%C4%B1z"
    title: "Sakine Cansız"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://diq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakine_Cans%C4%B1z"
    title: "Sakine Cansız"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakine_Cans%C4%B1z"
    title: "Sakine Cansız"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakine_Cans%C4%B1z"
    title: "Sakine Cansız"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakine_Cans%C4%B1z"
    title: "Sakine Cansız"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakine_Cans%C4%B1z"
    title: "Sakine Cansız"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "سکینه جانسیز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakine_Cansiz"
    title: "Sakine Cansiz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakine_Cans%C4%B1z"
    title: "Sakine Cansız"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A1%D7%9B%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%94_%D7%92'%D7%90%D7%A0%D7%A1%D7%99%D7%96"
    title: "סכינה ג'אנסיז"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sak%C3%AEne_Cansiz"
    title: "Sakîne Cansiz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sak%C3%AEne_Cansiz"
    title: "Sakîne Cansiz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakine_Cans%C4%B1z"
    title: "Sakine Cansız"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pam.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakine_Cansiz"
    title: "Sakine Cansiz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakine_Cans%C4%B1z"
    title: "Sakine Cansız"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakine_Cansiz"
    title: "Sakine Cansiz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakine_Cans%C4%B1z"
    title: "Sakine Cansız"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81%D1%8B%D0%B7%2C_%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B5"
    title: "Джансыз, Сакине"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakine_Cans%C4%B1z"
    title: "Sakine Cansız"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2905733"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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