1949 - Today
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 1,847,608 page views. His biography is available in 59 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 55 in 2019). Abdullah Öcalan is the 15th most popular extremist (up from 19th in 2019), the 154th most popular biography from Turkey (up from 194th 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 15 out of 209. Before him are Lee Harvey Oswald, Man in the Iron Mask, Gilles de Rais, Ted Kaczynski, Andrei Chikatilo, and Ramón Mercader. After him are Zodiac Killer, Ed Gein, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Albert Fish, Ulrike Meinhof, and Charles Ponzi.
1939 - 1963
HPI: 72.83
Rank: 9
1640 - 1703
HPI: 72.71
Rank: 10
1405 - 1440
HPI: 72.60
Rank: 11
1942 - 2023
HPI: 70.46
Rank: 12
1936 - 1994
HPI: 69.53
Rank: 13
1913 - 1978
HPI: 69.35
Rank: 14
1949 - Present
HPI: 69.02
Rank: 15
1940 - Present
HPI: 68.43
Rank: 16
1906 - 1984
HPI: 68.39
Rank: 17
1971 - 2019
HPI: 68.11
Rank: 18
1870 - 1936
HPI: 67.74
Rank: 19
1934 - 1976
HPI: 67.62
Rank: 20
1882 - 1949
HPI: 67.35
Rank: 21
Among people born in 1949, Abdullah Öcalan ranks 18. Before him are Anna Wintour, Roger Taylor, Bernard Arnault, Lech Kaczyński, Maurice Gibb, and Bruce Springsteen. After him are Ken Follett, Sandra Mason, Jeff Bridges, Caitlyn Jenner, André Rieu, and Jessica Lange.
1949 - Present
HPI: 71.47
Rank: 12
1949 - Present
HPI: 71.09
Rank: 13
1949 - Present
HPI: 70.66
Rank: 14
1949 - 2010
HPI: 70.32
Rank: 15
1949 - 2003
HPI: 70.31
Rank: 16
1949 - Present
HPI: 69.55
Rank: 17
1949 - Present
HPI: 69.02
Rank: 18
1949 - Present
HPI: 68.44
Rank: 19
1949 - Present
HPI: 68.31
Rank: 20
1949 - Present
HPI: 68.18
Rank: 21
1949 - Present
HPI: 67.73
Rank: 22
1949 - Present
HPI: 67.73
Rank: 23
1949 - Present
HPI: 67.63
Rank: 24
Among people born in Turkey, Abdullah Öcalan ranks 154 out of 1,301. Before him are Dionysius of Halicarnassus (-60), Saint Nino (296), Michael VII Doukas (1050), Narses (478), Stilicho (359), and Hecuba (null). After him are Saint Timothy (17), Mesrop Mashtots (361), Basil I (811), Gülfem Hatun (1500), Constans II (630), and Isaac II Angelos (1155).
60 BC - 7 BC
HPI: 69.24
Rank: 148
296 - 335
HPI: 69.22
Rank: 149
1050 - 1090
HPI: 69.21
Rank: 150
478 - 574
HPI: 69.17
Rank: 151
359 - 408
HPI: 69.08
Rank: 152
HPI: 69.04
Rank: 153
1949 - Present
HPI: 69.02
Rank: 154
17 - 97
HPI: 69.00
Rank: 155
361 - 440
HPI: 68.98
Rank: 156
811 - 886
HPI: 68.97
Rank: 157
1500 - 1561
HPI: 68.93
Rank: 158
630 - 668
HPI: 68.93
Rank: 159
1155 - 1204
HPI: 68.91
Rank: 160
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: 74.00
Rank: 1
1949 - Present
HPI: 69.02
Rank: 2
1958 - Present
HPI: 64.08
Rank: 3