1949 - Today
Abdullah Öcalan ( OH-jə-lahn; Turkish: [œdʒaɫan]; born 4 April 1949), also known as Apo (short for both Abdullah and "uncle" in Kurdish), is a Kurdish nationalist and one of the founding members of the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).Öcalan was based in Syria from 1979 to 1998. He helped found the PKK in 1978, and led it into the Kurdish–Turkish conflict in 1984. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abdullah Öcalan has received more than 1,073,213 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Abdullah Öcalan is the 19th most popular extremist (down from 16th in 2019), the 194th most popular biography from Turkey (down from 168th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Turkish Extremist.
Abdullah Öcalan is a Kurdish leader, and is most famous for being the founder of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK.
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Among extremists, Abdullah Öcalan ranks 19 out of 205. Before him are Ed Gein, Ramón Mercader, Ulrike Meinhof, Ted Kaczynski, Zodiac Killer, and Albert Fish. After him are Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Charles Ponzi, Cleon, Machine Gun Kelly, Jim Jones, and Amon Göth.
1906 - 1984
HPI: 76.57
Rank: 13
1913 - 1978
HPI: 76.55
Rank: 14
1934 - 1976
HPI: 76.06
Rank: 15
1942 - Present
HPI: 75.88
Rank: 16
1940 - Present
HPI: 75.80
Rank: 17
1870 - 1936
HPI: 75.57
Rank: 18
1949 - Present
HPI: 75.18
Rank: 19
1971 - 2019
HPI: 74.74
Rank: 20
1882 - 1949
HPI: 74.68
Rank: 21
450 BC - 422 BC
HPI: 74.57
Rank: 22
1895 - 1954
HPI: 74.51
Rank: 23
1931 - 1978
HPI: 74.36
Rank: 24
1908 - 1946
HPI: 74.12
Rank: 25
Among people born in 1949, Abdullah Öcalan ranks 20. Before him are Caitlyn Jenner, Roger Taylor, Arsène Wenger, Jeff Bridges, Bernard Arnault, and Lech Kaczyński. After him are Ken Follett, Jessica Lange, Slavoj Žižek, Maurice Gibb, Patrick Süskind, and Carlos the Jackal.
1949 - Present
HPI: 76.17
Rank: 14
1949 - Present
HPI: 76.01
Rank: 15
1949 - Present
HPI: 75.92
Rank: 16
1949 - Present
HPI: 75.32
Rank: 17
1949 - Present
HPI: 75.27
Rank: 18
1949 - 2010
HPI: 75.24
Rank: 19
1949 - Present
HPI: 75.18
Rank: 20
1949 - Present
HPI: 75.02
Rank: 21
1949 - Present
HPI: 74.90
Rank: 22
1949 - Present
HPI: 74.79
Rank: 23
1949 - 2003
HPI: 74.17
Rank: 24
1949 - Present
HPI: 73.86
Rank: 25
1949 - Present
HPI: 73.38
Rank: 26
Among people born in Turkey, Abdullah Öcalan ranks 194 out of 1,128. Before him are Michael I Cerularius (1005), Pope John V (635), Stateira II (-346), Alexios III Angelos (1153), Briseis (null), and Theodore I Laskaris (1174). After him are Pope Constantine (664), Hippodamus of Miletus (-498), Pope John VI (655), John VII Palaiologos (1370), Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca (1853), and Parascheva of the Balkans (1000).
1005 - 1059
HPI: 75.35
Rank: 188
635 - 686
HPI: 75.30
Rank: 189
346 BC - 323 BC
HPI: 75.28
Rank: 190
1153 - 1211
HPI: 75.28
Rank: 191
HPI: 75.23
Rank: 192
1174 - 1221
HPI: 75.23
Rank: 193
1949 - Present
HPI: 75.18
Rank: 194
664 - 715
HPI: 75.13
Rank: 195
498 BC - 408 BC
HPI: 75.11
Rank: 196
655 - 705
HPI: 75.06
Rank: 197
1370 - 1408
HPI: 75.05
Rank: 198
1853 - 1931
HPI: 74.99
Rank: 199
1000 - 1100
HPI: 74.92
Rank: 200
Among extremists born in Turkey, Abdullah Öcalan ranks 2. Before him are Herostratus (-301). After him are Mehmet Ali Ağca (1958).
301 BC - 356 BC
HPI: 80.43
Rank: 1
1949 - Present
HPI: 75.18
Rank: 2
1958 - Present
HPI: 73.18
Rank: 3