# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/volker-turk
# Generated: 2026-09-01T20:17:09.503Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/volker-turk"
name: "Volker Türk"
slug: "volker-turk"
description: "Volker Türk is an Austrian lawyer and United Nations official. He has been the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights since October 2022."
tagline: "United Nations human rights chief"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Volker_T%C3%BCrk_in_Helsinki_-_2022_(52573271488)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Austria"
  isoCode: "AT"
category:
  name: "Lawyers"
  slug: "lawyers"
profileType:
  name: "Lawyer"
  slug: "lawyer"
birthDate: "1965-08-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           59.13
  momentum:             10
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  155
  category: 26
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10315474/"
    handle:    "nm10315474"
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    title: "Volker Türk"
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    title: "Volker Türk"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "福爾克爾·蒂爾克"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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