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 128,659 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Sakine Cansız is the 521st most popular social activist (down from 447th in 2019), the 991st most popular biography from Türkiye (up from 1,043rd in 2019) and the 5th most popular Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Sakine Cansız ranks 521 out of 840Before her are Yun Hyon-seok, Devdas Gandhi, Grey Owl, Lucy Parsons, Fazu Aliyeva, and Alfreda Markowska. After her are Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, Ruby Bridges, Martin Luther King Sr., Abdalqadir as-Sufi, Doina Cornea, and Ramdas Gandhi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1958, Sakine Cansız ranks 275Before her are Ned Luke, Salah Assad, Luísa Diogo, Chuck Russell, Ahmad Vahidi, and Radu Mihăileanu. After her are Abdi Farah Shirdon, Yuval Steinitz, Patricia Heaton, Adrian Rawlins, Pedro Costa, and Georgi Slavkov. Among people deceased in 2013, Sakine Cansız ranks 345Before her are C. Gordon Fullerton, Gerino Gerini, Raimondo D'Inzeo, Jean Stapleton, Steve Forrest, and Walt Bellamy. After her are Jean Marcel Honoré, Renato Ruggiero, David R. Ellis, Lidiya Vertinskaya, Lidiya Ponomarenko, and Eddi Arent.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Sakine Cansız ranks 991 out of 1,347Before her are Okan Yalabık (1978), Sirarpie Der Nersessian (1896), Aristeidis Moraitinis (1806), Cüneyt Çakır (1976), Thoros III, King of Armenia (1270), and Feridun Buğeker (1933). After her are Toros Toramanian (1864), Duygu Asena (1946), Güler Sabancı (1955), İbrahim Çelikkol (1982), Arda Güler (2005), and Nezihe Muhiddin (1889).

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Türkiye

Among social activists born in Türkiye, Sakine Cansız ranks 5Before her are Hrant Dink (1954), Deniz Gezmiş (1947), İbrahim Kaypakkaya (1949), and Mari Beyleryan (1877). After her are Aslı Erdoğan (1967), Eren Keskin (1959), Cenk Uygur (1970), Hande Kader (1993), Murder of Özgecan Aslan (1995), and Saadet Özkan (1978).