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Behçet Yıldırım

Politician

Behçet Yıldırım is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Behçet Yıldırım · Бехчет Йылдырым				[sources]
Alias	Бехчет Йылдырым				[sources]
Birth date	1959-05-10				[sources]
Place of birth	Adıyaman				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Türkiye				[sources]
Country	Türkiye				[sources]
Citizenship	Türkiye				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Behçet				[sources]
Last name	Yıldırım				[sources]
Political association	Peoples' Democratic Party				[sources]
Website	twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q20988564				[sources]
Position	Grand National Assembly (member, 2015-) · Grand National Assembly (member, 2015-2015) · member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey · member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (2015-)				[sources]
Education	Çukurova University				[sources]
Last change	2025-12-31	Last processed	2025-12-31	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Turkish statesperson (born 1959)

— Wikidata non-official source, 2025-12-31

Relationships

Data sources

MySociety's EveryPolitician Dataset of National Legislators57,731

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories384,631

Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions552,331

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata355,584

Wikidata is the structured data project of the Wikipedia community, providing fact-based information edited by humans and machines

External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

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