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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Sakine Cansız

1958 - 2013

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Sakine Cansız (Turkish pronunciation: [saːciˈne dʒanˈsɯz]; Kurdish: Sakîne Cansiz, IPA: [sɑːkiːnɛ dʒɑːnsɪz]; 1958 – 9 January 2013) was one of the co-founders of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). A Kurdish activist in the 1980s, she was arrested and tortured by Turkish police. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sakine Cansız has received more than 121,644 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Sakine Cansız is the 447th most popular social activist (down from 391st in 2019), the 1,045th most popular biography from Turkey (down from 947th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Turkish Social Activist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 120k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.85

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.25

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Sakine Cansız ranks 447 out of 538Before her are Stokely Carmichael, Devdas Gandhi, Mohammad Ali Jauhar, Abdalqadir as-Sufi, Denis Goldberg, and Annie Kenney. After her are Osvaldo Hurtado, Szeto Wah, Medha Patkar, Bruno Manser, Wolfe Tone, and Kim Ok.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1958, Sakine Cansız ranks 241Before her are Bernard Genghini, Bernard Fellay, Luz Casal, Pita, Marcos Paquetá, and Louise Penny. After her are Walburga Habsburg Douglas, Candace Bushnell, Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Zoran Vujović, Shafi Goldwasser, and Nichi Vendola. Among people deceased in 2013, Sakine Cansız ranks 318Before her are C. Gordon Fullerton, Imants Ziedonis, Giovanni Cheli, Medardo Joseph Mazombwe, Jean Marcel Honoré, and Max Jakobson. After her are Peter Gilmore, Amar Bose, Martí de Riquer i Morera, Jean Stapleton, María de Villota, and Stan Musial.

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In Turkey

Among people born in Turkey, Sakine Cansız ranks 1,045 out of 1,301Before her are Evagrius of Constantinople (350), Bahriye Üçok (1919), Can Yaman (1989), Türkan Saylan (1935), Constantine Paparrigopoulos (1815), and Toros Toramanian (1864). After her are Selahattin Demirtaş (1973), Afife Jale (1902), Osman Nuri Topbaş (1942), Birol Ünel (1961), John Kourkouas (null), and Türkân Akyol (1928).

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Turkey

Among social activists born in Turkey, Sakine Cansız ranks 4Before her are Hrant Dink (1954), Deniz Gezmiş (1947), and İbrahim Kaypakkaya (1949). After her are Aslı Erdoğan (1967), Eren Keskin (1959), Mari Beyleryan (1877), Cenk Uygur (1970), Murder of Özgecan Aslan (1995), Saadet Özkan (1978), and Hande Kader (1993).