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Cemal Gürsel

1895 - 1966

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Cemal Gürsel (Turkish: [dʒeˈmal ɟyɾˈsæl]; 9 June 1894 – 14 September 1966) was a Turkish military officer and politician who was the 4th president of Turkey, serving from 1960 to 1966 after taking power in a coup d'état. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Cemal Gürsel has received more than 459,594 page views. His biography is available in 65 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 59 in 2019). Cemal Gürsel is the 1,646th most popular politician (down from 1,645th in 2019), the 196th most popular biography from Türkiye (up from 225th in 2019) and the 105th most popular Politician.

Cemal Gürsel is most famous for being the president of Turkey from 1973 to 1980.

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  • 66.95

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 65

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.13

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Cemal Gürsel ranks 1,646 out of 19,576. Before him are Aung San, Empress Lü, Ferdinand Marcos, Robert, Count of Clermont, Charles II of Naples, and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. After him are Publius Clodius Pulcher, Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Euric, Francis, Duke of Guise, and Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Cemal Gürsel ranks 30. Before him are Folke Bernadotte, Paul Hindemith, Aleksandr Vasilevsky, Semyon Timoshenko, Anastas Mikoyan, and Gerhard Domagk. After him are Ragnar Frisch, Rudolph Valentino, Oskar Dirlewanger, Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Babe Ruth, and Wilhelm Burgdorf. Among people deceased in 1966, Cemal Gürsel ranks 18. Before him are Jean Arp, Peter Debye, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Giuseppe Farina, Frits Zernike, and Felix Steiner. After him are George de Hevesy, Dietrich von Choltitz, Vincent Auriol, Guillermo Stábile, Montgomery Clift, and Célestin Freinet.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Cemal Gürsel ranks 196 out of 1,347. Before him are Sabiha Gökçen (1913), Michael I Rangabe (770), Fatma Sultan (1500), Gregory Palamas (1296), Zoë Porphyrogenita (978), and Giorgos Seferis (1900). After him are Ahmet Necdet Sezer (1941), Arcesilaus (-315), Romanos II (938), Xenocrates (-396), Cleanthes (-330), and Ali ibn al-Athir (1160).

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Among POLITICIANS In Türkiye

Among politicians born in Türkiye, Cemal Gürsel ranks 105. Before him are Anthemius (420), Theodore I Laskaris (1174), Michael II (770), Constantine VIII (960), Michael I Rangabe (770), and Zoë Porphyrogenita (978). After him are Ahmet Necdet Sezer (1941), Romanos II (938), Nikephoros III Botaneiates (1002), Sultan Cem (1459), Theophanu (960), and Celâl Bayar (1883).

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