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Kenan Evren

1917 - 2015

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Ahmet Kenan Evren (Turkish: [ˈce.nan ˈev.ɾɛn]; 17 July 1917 – 9 May 2015) was a Turkish politician and military officer who served as the seventh President of Turkey from 1980 to 1989. He assumed the post by leading the 1980 military coup. On 18 June 2014, a Turkish court sentenced him to life imprisonment and demotion of his military rank, (down to private from army general) for leading the military coup in 1980. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kenan Evren has received more than 608,900 page views. His biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 55 in 2019). Kenan Evren is the 1,830th most popular politician (down from 1,674th in 2019), the 240th most popular biography from Turkey (down from 230th in 2019) and the 136th most popular Turkish Politician.

Kenan Evren was a Turkish military officer who led the 1980 coup d'état that overthrew the government of the Turkish democratic republic.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Kenan Evren ranks 1,830 out of 15,577Before him are Francis, Duke of Anjou, Ludvík Svoboda, Baasha of Israel, Alexios V Doukas, Luís I of Portugal, and Boris Johnson. After him are Andrey Vyshinsky, Edward, King of Portugal, Nikolai Podgorny, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Herman Van Rompuy, and Naram-Sin of Akkad.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Kenan Evren ranks 19Before him are I. M. Pei, Robert Mitchum, Christian de Duve, Sidney Sheldon, Dean Martin, and Joan Clarke. After him are Nur Muhammad Taraki, Otto Günsche, Louis Zamperini, Rochus Misch, Óscar Romero, and Jean-Pierre Melville. Among people deceased in 2015, Kenan Evren ranks 25Before him are Kim Young-sam, Josef Masopust, Leonard Nimoy, Ulrich Beck, Richard von Weizsäcker, and Otto Carius. After him are Maya Plisetskaya, Eduardo Galeano, Val Logsdon Fitch, Douglass North, Tariq Aziz, and Manoel de Oliveira.

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In Turkey

Among people born in Turkey, Kenan Evren ranks 240 out of 1,301Before him are Alaeddin Pasha (1250), Gordian I (159), Michael V Kalaphates (1015), Constantine VI (771), Alexios II Komnenos (1169), and Alexios V Doukas (1140). After him are Justin II (520), Philippikos Bardanes (700), Attalus I (-269), Ali ibn al-Athir (1160), Niketas Choniates (1155), and Isidore of Miletus (442).

Among POLITICIANS In Turkey

Among politicians born in Turkey, Kenan Evren ranks 136Before him are Alaeddin Pasha (1250), Gordian I (159), Michael V Kalaphates (1015), Constantine VI (771), Alexios II Komnenos (1169), and Alexios V Doukas (1140). After him are Justin II (520), Philippikos Bardanes (700), Attalus I (-269), John IV Laskaris (1250), Eumenes II (-221), and Alexander (870).