# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sevag-sahin-bal-kc
# Generated: 2026-08-15T15:18:15.123Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sevag-sahin-bal-kc"
name: "Sevag Şahin Balıkçı"
slug: "sevag-sahin-bal-kc"
description: "Sevag Şahin Balıkçı was a Turkish soldier of Armenian descent who was shot to death during compulsory military service. The incident occurred on April 24, 2011, the remembrance day of the Armenian genocide. The perpetrator Kıvanç Ağaoğlu was sentenced to four and a half years in prison for involuntary manslaughter. However, there have been several eye-witness accounts and testimonies that claim that the shooting was not accidental as the official reports suggest, but intentional. Other reports claim that the shooting was a hate crime towards Balıkçı's Armenian identity."
tagline: "Turkish military officer of Armenian ancestry (1986–2011)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7b/Sevag_Balikci.jpg/330px-Sevag_Balikci.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Turkey"
  isoCode: "TR"
birthDate: "1986-04-01"
deathDate: "2011-04-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.06
  momentum:             2.289914250714578
  historical:           5.281390666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Sevag_Bal%C4%B1k%C3%A7%C4%B1"
    title: "Murder of Sevag Balıkçı"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%AC_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%AC%D9%89"
    title: "سيفاج باليكجى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sevaq_Bal%C4%B1q%C3%A7%C4%B1n%C4%B1n_q%C9%99tli"
    title: "Sevaq Balıqçının qətli"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sevag_%C5%9Eahin_Bal%C4%B1k%C3%A7%C4%B1'n%C4%B1n_%C3%B6ld%C3%BCr%C3%BClmesi"
    title: "Sevag Şahin Balıkçı'nın öldürülmesi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%82%D8%AA%D9%84_%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%A7%DA%A9_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%DB%8C%DA%A9%DA%86%DB%8C"
    title: "قتل سواک بالیکچی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8D%D6%87%D5%A1%D5%AF_%D4%B2%D5%A1%D5%AC%D5%A8%D6%84%D5%B9%D5%A8%D5%AB_%D5%BD%D5%BA%D5%A1%D5%B6%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%A9%D5%B5%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%B6"
    title: "Սևակ Բալըքչըի սպանություն"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2043986"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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