Osman Baydemir

Osman Baydemir

male, 38 years old
Osman Baydemir is a Turkish politician, lawyer and human rights activist of Kurdish origin. He is the current mayor of his home town of Diyarbakır a...
Mehmed Uzun

Mehmed Uzun

male, 56 years old
Mehmed Uzun, is a contemporary Kurdish writer and novelist. He was born in Siverek, Urfa in Turkey in 1953. Although Kurdish was outlawed in Turkey...
Emre Taner

Emre Taner

male, 67 years old
Emre Taner (1942) is a Turkish civil servant and currently the chief of the governmental intelligence agency of Turkey Milli İstihbarat T...

İbrahim Kaypakkaya

male, deceased (1972)
İbrahim Kaypakkaya was a leader of the Turkish communist movement. He led the split away from the neighboring Soviet Union's ideology and took up M...

Mıgırdiç Margosyan

male, 71 years old
Mıgırdiç Margosyan is an Turkish author of Armenian descent. Margosyan was born on December 23rd, 1938 in the Hançepek district of Diyarbakır, Turke...

Cihan Haspolatlı

male, 29 years old
Cihan Haspolatlı, born on January 4, 1980 in Diyarbakır, Turkey is a Turkish football player in midfield and right back positions. He is cu...
Mehdi Zana

Mehdi Zana

male, 69 years old
Mehdi Zana is a former Turkish politician of Kurdish origin. Zana started to work as a tailor in Silvan after he graduated from elementary school....
Massoud Barzani

Massoud Barzani

male, 63 years old
Massoud Barzani (born August 16, 1946) is the President of the Autonomous Kurdish Government in Iraq and leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party....
Ali Baran

Ali Baran

male, 53 years old
Ali Baran, is a Turkish singer of Kurdish origin. He sings in both dialects of Kurmanji and Kurmanjki(Zaza). He began singing in Kurdish for the...
Lokman Polat

Lokman Polat

male
Lokman Polat, is a Kurdish writer. He was born in "Licê" around Diyarbakır in south-eastern Turkey. Before 1980, he was involved in publishing po...