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Murat KARAYILAN

Politician · Sanctioned entity · Counter-sanctioned entity

Murat KARAYILAN is subject to sanctions. See the individual program listings below. They are also a politically exposed person.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	KARAYILAN, Murat · Murad Karayılan · Murat KARAYILAN · Murat Karayılan · Мурат Карайълан · 7 more...				[sources]
Other name	Murat Karayilan · Карайылан, Мурат				[sources]
Weak alias	Cemal · Karayılan				[sources]
Birth date	1950 · 1954-06-05				[sources]
Place of birth	Birecik · KONAK · Konak · Konak, Turkey				[sources]
Death date	2023-09-16				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Türkiye				[sources]
Country	Kurdistan · Türkiye				[sources]
Citizenship	Türkiye				[sources]
Classification	National government (past)				[sources]
First name	Murat				[sources]
Last name	KARAYILAN · Karayılan				[sources]
Matronymic	Zeynep				[sources]
Passport number	`33731288072`				[sources]
Patronymic	Mehmet				[sources]
Program	Türkiye Ministry Of Interior Terrorist Wanted List - red List				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q611767				[sources]
Position	President of the Koma Civakên Kurdistan (2010-2013)				[sources]
Source link	sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov				[sources]
Last change	2025-07-30	Last processed	2025-11-03	First seen	2023-04-20

Descriptions

Acting military commander of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK)

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-18

Relationships

Sanctions
Country	Authority	Program	Start date	End date
United States	TREAS-OFAC		-	-

Linked to
Object	Role	Start date	End date
PKK/KCK	-	-	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
President of the Koma Civakên Kurdistan	2010-01-01	2013-01-01

Data sources

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons275,212

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

US OFAC Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) List35,178

The primary United States' sanctions list, specially designated nationals (SDN) part.

United States · OFAC

US SAM Procurement Exclusions105,490

A database of suppliers who have been excluded from participating in US federal procurement.

United States · GSA

Türkiye Ministry Of Interior Terrorist Wanted List2,654

List of people considered wanted for terrorism by the Türkiye Ministry of Interior

Türkiye · Türkiye Ministry of Interior

Türkiye Asset Freezing Sanctions List (MASAK)2,285

Individuals, entities, and organizations whose assets are frozen by the Republic of Türkiye based on United Nations Security Council resolutions, requests from foreign countries, domestic decisions, and efforts to counter the financing of proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

Türkiye · MASAK

US Trade Consolidated Screening List (CSL)23,257

The Consolidated Screening List (CSL) is a list of parties for which the United States Government maintains restrictions on certain exports, re-exports, or transfers of items.

United States · ITA

External databases

The record has been enriched with data from the following external databases:

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions550,659

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata334,059

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

Source data IDs: NK-BRHtdiAHTCdvqzsaTqAPWM · tr-fcib-d053711cc02677948f7b995cc70a6a955d865653 · usgsa-s4mr3q2vy · ofac-11600 · tr-wanted-514f9c06391e6cb34b1cab8c808dfad69f876ea7

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