# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yasar-erkan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:33:22.847Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yasar-erkan"
name: "Yaşar Erkan"
slug: "yasar-erkan"
description: "Yaşar Erkan was a Turkish sports wrestler, who won the first ever Olympic gold medal for Turkey in the Featherweight class of Men's Greco-Roman Wrestling. Yaşar Erkan is the first Olympic champion in Turkish history."
tagline: "Turkish wrestler (1911–1986)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ya%C5%9Far_Erkan.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Turkey"
  isoCode: "TR"
birthDate: "1911-04-30"
deathDate: "1986-05-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.58
  momentum:             0
  historical:           17.49402666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "亚沙尔·埃尔坎"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Yaşar Erkan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Yaşar Erkan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ya%C5%9Far_Erkan"
    title: "Yaşar Erkan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ya%C5%9Far_Erkan"
    title: "Yaşar Erkan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Yaşar Erkan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "یاشار ارکان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Yaşar Erkan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Yaşar Erkan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ya%C5%9Far_Erkan"
    title: "Yaşar Erkan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ya%C5%9Far_Erkan"
    title: "Yaşar Erkan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Яшар Эркан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "야샤르 에르칸"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Yaşar Erkan"
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  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasar_Erkan"
    title: "Yasar Erkan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ya%C5%9Far_Erkan"
    title: "Yaşar Erkan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ya%C5%9Far_Erkan"
    title: "Yaşar Erkan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BD%2C_%D0%AF%D1%88%D0%B0%D1%80"
    title: "Эркан, Яшар"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Yaşar Erkan"
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    title: "Яшар Еркан"
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    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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