WRITER

Turan Dursun

1934 - 1990

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Turan Dursun (1934 – 4 September 1990) was a Turkish author and atheist who was a critic of Islam. A former Muslim cleric and scholar of Shia Islam, he became an atheist during his study of the history of monotheistic religions. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Turan Dursun has received more than 123,401 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Turan Dursun is the 4,484th most popular writer (down from 4,227th in 2019), the 919th most popular biography from Türkiye (up from 995th in 2019) and the 116th most popular Turkish Writer.

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  • 120k

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  • 49.05

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  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.11

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.26

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Turan Dursun ranks 4,484 out of 7,302Before him are Gerard Manley Hopkins, Sofia Yablonska, Cecil Day-Lewis, Saneatsu Mushanokōji, Sakyo Komatsu, and Itzik Feffer. After him are El-Registan, Reginald Rose, Jørgen-Frantz Jacobsen, Walter Savage Landor, Florian Ceynowa, and Jorge Edwards.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Turan Dursun ranks 315Before him are Gergely Kulcsár, Junior Wells, Leonid Stein, Nikolai Slichenko, Susan George, and Lew Hoad. After him are Roy Kerr, Roger Norrington, Lyudmila Shevtsova, Tomás Eloy Martínez, Alan Bennett, and Kamala Surayya. Among people deceased in 1990, Turan Dursun ranks 191Before him are Roman Vishniac, Giorgio Ghezzi, Paco Godia, Georges de Rham, Laurence J. Peter, and Gerhard Schrader. After him are Mário Pinto de Andrade, Léopold Anoul, Hector Dyer, Nadia Gamal, Ludwig Lachmann, and Dries van der Lof.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Turan Dursun ranks 919 out of 1,347Before him are Zeki Rıza Sporel (1898), Antony II of Constantinople (829), Fazıl Say (1970), Janet Akyüz Mattei (1943), Gaius Julius Quadratus Bassus (70), and Andon Bedros IX Hassoun (1809). After him are Türkân Akyol (1928), Hranush Arshagyan (1887), Mihri Müşfik Hanım (1886), Serenus Sammonicus (200), Solomon (401), and Kenan İmirzalıoğlu (1974).

Among WRITERS In Türkiye

Among writers born in Türkiye, Turan Dursun ranks 116Before him are Theodore Abu Qurrah (750), Uğur Mumcu (1942), Orhan Kemal (1914), Osman Nuri Topbaş (1942), Ahmet Altan (1950), and Yervant Odian (1869). After him are Hranush Arshagyan (1887), Ayşe Kulin (1941), Panyassis (-500), Abdülhak Hâmid Tarhan (1852), Oğuz Atay (1934), and Levon Shant (1869).