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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 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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  • 69.02

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 59

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.92

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.35

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Abdullah Öcalan ranks 15 out of 209Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Abdullah Öcalan ranks 18Before 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.

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In Turkey

Among people born in Turkey, Abdullah Öcalan ranks 154 out of 1,301Before 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).

Among EXTREMISTS In Turkey

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