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Abdullah Öcalan

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Abdullah Öcalan ( OH-jə-lahn; Turkish: [œdʒaɫan]; born 4 April 1948 or 1949), also known as Apo (short for Abdullah in Turkish; Kurdish for "uncle"), is a founding member of the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). Öcalan was based in Syria from 1979 to 1998. He helped found the PKK in 1978, and led it into the Kurdish–Turkish conflict in 1984. For most of his leadership, he was based in Syria, which provided sanctuary to the PKK until the late 1990s. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Abdullah Öcalan is the 9th most popular extremist (up from 13th in 2019), the 80th most popular biography from Türkiye (up from 121st in 2019) and the most popular Turkish Extremist.

Abdullah Öcalan is a Kurdish leader, and is most famous for being the founder of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Abdullah Öcalan ranks 9 out of 283. Before him are Gavrilo Princip, Elizabeth Báthory, Osama bin Laden, Charles Manson, Zodiac Killer, and Ted Bundy. After him are Herostratus, Amon Göth, Lee Harvey Oswald, Frederick Trump, Man in the Iron Mask, and Gilles de Rais.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Abdullah Öcalan ranks 17. Before him are Meryl Streep, Anna Wintour, Pedro Almodóvar, Ashraf Ghani, Richard Gere, and Mark Knopfler. After him are Bernard Arnault, Arsène Wenger, Lech Kaczyński, Sigourney Weaver, André Rieu, and Maurice Gibb.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Abdullah Öcalan ranks 80 out of 1,347. Before him are Apollonius of Perga (-262), Orhan Pamuk (1952), Priam (null), Selim III (1761), Mahmud I (1696), and Şehzade Mehmed (1522). After him are Alexios I Komnenos (1048), Stateira II (-346), Valerian (200), Abdülaziz (1830), Hatice Sultan (1496), and Pedanius Dioscorides (40).

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Among EXTREMISTS In Türkiye

Among extremists born in Türkiye, Abdullah Öcalan ranks 1. After him are Herostratus (-301), Mehmet Ali Ağca (1958), and Abdullah Çatlı (1956).

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