# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/selim-curukkaya
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:34:12.416Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/selim-curukkaya"
name: "Selim Çürükkaya"
slug: "selim-curukkaya"
description: "Mehmet Selim Çürükkaya, is a founding member and later dissident of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and a Kurdish writer and International PEN member. Çürükkaya lives in Germany and has published eight books, one translated into German and English."
tagline: "Turkish writer of Kurdish ancestry (born 1954)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Turkey"
  isoCode: "TR"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1954-01-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.74
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.631716
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selim_%C3%87%C3%BCr%C3%BCkkaya"
    title: "Selim Çürükkaya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://diq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selim_%C3%87urukkaya"
    title: "Selim Çurukkaya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selim_%C3%87%C3%BCr%C3%BCkkaya"
    title: "Selim Çürükkaya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selim_%C3%87%C3%BCr%C3%BCkkaya"
    title: "Selim Çürükkaya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selim_%C3%87%C3%BCr%C3%BCkkaya"
    title: "Selim Çürükkaya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q982903"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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