# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/selahattin-demirtas
# Generated: 2026-09-04T22:06:33.434Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/selahattin-demirtas"
name: "Selahattin Demirtaş"
slug: "selahattin-demirtas"
description: "Selahattin Demirtaş is a Turkish-Kurdish politician, lawyer and author. He was the co-leader of the left-wing pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), serving alongside Figen Yüksekdağ from 2014 to 2018. Selahattin Demirtaş announced that he left politics after the May 2023 elections."
tagline: "Turkish statesperson of Kurdish ancestry (born 1973)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Selahattin_Demirta%C5%9F_2015-12-18_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "TR"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1973-04-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  85
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ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump