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Abdullah Öcalan

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Abdullah Öcalan ( OH-jə-lahn; Turkish: [œdʒaɫan]; born 4 April 1949), also known as Apo (short for Abdullah in Turkish; Kurdish for "uncle"), is a political prisoner and founding member 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 2,032,882 page views. His biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 59 in 2019). Abdullah Öcalan is the 13th most popular extremist (up from 15th in 2019), the 112th most popular biography from Türkiye (up from 154th 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.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 70.41

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 62

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.53

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.59

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Abdullah Öcalan ranks 13 out of 283. Before him are Elizabeth Báthory, Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, Herostratus, Gilles de Rais, and Man in the Iron Mask. After him are Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy, Ramón Mercader, Andrei Chikatilo, Ted Kaczynski, and Ayman al-Zawahiri.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Abdullah Öcalan ranks 17. Before him are Lech Kaczyński, Anna Wintour, Sigourney Weaver, Arsène Wenger, Richard Gere, and Maurice Gibb. After him are André Rieu, Ken Follett, Bruce Springsteen, Roger Taylor, Sandra Mason, and Slavoj Žižek.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Abdullah Öcalan ranks 112 out of 1,347. Before him are Anna Komnene (1083), Bartholomew I of Constantinople (1940), Dionysius of Halicarnassus (-60), Zeno (425), Eudoxus of Cnidus (-408), and Gregory of Nyssa (335). After him are Gordian I (159), Chrysippus (-281), Basil II (958), Constantine V (718), Malhun Hatun (1350), and Photios I of Constantinople (900).

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Among EXTREMISTS In Türkiye

Among extremists born in Türkiye, Abdullah Öcalan ranks 2. Before him are Herostratus (-301). After him are Mehmet Ali Ağca (1958), and Abdullah Çatlı (1956).

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