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  "ar": "حمزة يرليكايا",
  "en": "Hamza Yerlikaya",
  "ur": "حمزہ یرلی قایا"
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  "ar": "مصارع روماني تركي، وُلد في إسطنبول سنة 1976. بطل أولمبي مرتين ⁦(1996 و2000)⁩ وبطل عالم ثلاث مرات وبطل أوروبا ثماني مرات، وسُمّي مصارع القرن لدى الاتحاد الدولي. وبعد اعتزاله صار نائبًا في البرلمان ورئيسًا للاتحاد التركي للمصارعة ونائبًا لوزير الشباب والرياضة.",
  "en": "Turkish Greco-Roman wrestler, born in Istanbul in 1976. A two-time Olympic champion (1996, 2000), three-time world champion and eight-time European champion, he was named FILA's Wrestler of the Century. After retiring he became a member of parliament, president of the Turkish Wrestling Federation and a deputy minister of youth and sports.",
  "ur": "ترک گریکو رومن پہلوان، جو 1976 میں استنبول میں پیدا ہوئے۔ دو بار اولمپک چیمپئن ⁦(1996، 2000)⁩، تین بار عالمی چیمپئن اور آٹھ بار یورپی چیمپئن؛ انہیں فیلا نے صدی کا پہلوان قرار دیا۔ ریٹائرمنٹ کے بعد وہ رکن پارلیمان، ترک ریسلنگ فیڈریشن کے صدر اور نائب وزیرِ کھیل بنے۔"
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   "note": "Born 6 June 1976 in Kadıköy, Istanbul, per the English article and Wikidata. The Turkish article's lead gives 3 June 1976 (its officeholder infobox leaves the birth date blank); the record follows the two concordant sources. The Hijri year 1396 (8 Jumada al-awwal 1396) is the tabular conversion of 6 June 1976 and is marked derived.",
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    "value": "Hamza Yerlikaya",
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    "value": "حمزة يرليكايا",
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  "gender": "male",
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   "edtf": "1976-06-06",
   "hijri": "1396",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "Born 6 June 1976 in Kadıköy, Istanbul, per the English article and Wikidata. The Turkish article's lead gives 3 June 1976 (its officeholder infobox leaves the birth date blank); the record follows the two concordant sources. The Hijri year 1396 (8 Jumada al-awwal 1396) is the tabular conversion of 6 June 1976 and is marked derived.",
   "sources": [
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    "source/wikidata-hamza-yerlikaya"
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  "faith": [
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    "value": "unknown",
    "basis": "unknown",
    "note": "Neither the English nor the Turkish article names a religion for him, and Wikidata records no religion statement. His parliamentary party and his federation and ministry posts are offices, not faith attestations, and are not used. Recorded as unknown on absence of attestation.",
    "sources": [
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     "source/wikipedia-hamza-yerlikaya-tr",
     "source/wikidata-hamza-yerlikaya"
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   "source": "English Wikipedia (revision 1366514930), Turkish Wikipedia (revision 38218978) and Wikidata Q1399210 (item revision 2549389445, re-asserted against a second live query), all fetched via the MediaWiki API and checked on 31 Oct 2026; no Arabic Wikipedia article exists; existence checked against the worktree and origin/main (no prior record).",
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  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "حمزة يرليكايا مصارع روماني تركي، وُلد في قاضي كوي بإسطنبول في 6 يونيو 1976 لأسرة أصلها من ولاية سيواس. فاز بالميدالية الذهبية الأولمبية مرتين ⁦(1996 و2000)⁩ وببطولة العالم ثلاث مرات وببطولة أوروبا ثماني مرات، واختاره الاتحاد الدولي للمصارعة «مصارع القرن». وبعد اعتزاله سنة 2007 صار نائبًا في البرلمان التركي ثم رئيسًا لاتحاد المصارعة ثم نائبًا لوزير الشباب والرياضة. {cite:wikipedia-hamza-yerlikaya-en} {cite:wikidata-hamza-yerlikaya}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "النشأة وبداية المصارعة",
     "markdown": "وُلد يرليكايا في إسطنبول لأسرة هاجرت إليها من سيواس، وكان والده مصطفى مصارعًا سابقًا. بدأ المصارعة في الحادية عشرة من عمره، وفي سنة 1993 فاز ببطولة العالم في ستوكهولم وهو في السابعة عشرة، فصار أصغر بطل عالم في تاريخ المصارعة. {cite:wikipedia-hamza-yerlikaya-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المسيرة",
     "markdown": "في أولمبياد أتلانتا 1996 فاز يرليكايا بذهبية وزن 82 كغ وهو في العشرين ويؤدي خدمته العسكرية، فكان الرياضي التركي الوحيد الذي نال ذهبية أولمبية أثناء الخدمة. وحمل علم تركيا في أولمبياد سيدني 2000 وفاز فيه بذهبية ثانية. {cite:wikipedia-hamza-yerlikaya-en} ونال بطولة العالم في أعوام 1993 و1995 و2005، وبطولة أوروبا ثماني مرات بين عامي 1996 و2006، وسمّاه الاتحاد الدولي مصارع القرن. واعتزل سنة 2007 بعد كسور في رقبته لم تتعافَ تمامًا. {cite:wikipedia-hamza-yerlikaya-tr}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "بعد الاعتزال",
     "markdown": "انتُخب يرليكايا نائبًا عن سيواس في البرلمان التركي وبقي فيه من 2007 إلى 2011، ثم ترأس الاتحاد التركي للمصارعة بين عامي 2012 و2015، وصار نائبًا لوزير الشباب والرياضة منذ يوليو 2018، وتذكر المقالة الإنجليزية أيضًا عمله مستشارًا لرئاسة الجمهورية. ويحمل مجمع رياضي في منطقة غازي عثمان باشا بإسطنبول اسمه. {cite:wikipedia-hamza-yerlikaya-tr} {cite:wikipedia-hamza-yerlikaya-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المراجع",
     "markdown": "- كيانات المصادر المعرفة المستشهد بها أعلاه، والمسجلة في `data/source/`."
    }
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   "updated": "2026-11-06"
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  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Hamza Yerlikaya is a Turkish Greco-Roman wrestler, born in Kadıköy, Istanbul on 6 June 1976 to a family from Sivas. He won the Olympic gold medal twice (1996 and 2000), the world championship three times and the European championship eight times, and FILA named him its Wrestler of the Century. After retiring in 2007 he became a member of the Turkish parliament, then president of the Turkish Wrestling Federation and a deputy minister of youth and sports. {cite:wikipedia-hamza-yerlikaya-en} {cite:wikidata-hamza-yerlikaya}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Early life and start in wrestling",
     "markdown": "Yerlikaya was born in Istanbul to a family that had moved there from Sivas; his father Mustafa was a former wrestler. He took up wrestling at eleven, and in 1993 he won the world championship in Stockholm at the age of seventeen — the youngest world wrestling champion ever. {cite:wikipedia-hamza-yerlikaya-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Career",
     "markdown": "At the Atlanta 1996 Olympics Yerlikaya won the 82 kg gold medal at the age of twenty while performing his military service, the only Turkish athlete to win Olympic gold during service. He carried Turkey's flag at Sydney 2000 and won a second gold there. {cite:wikipedia-hamza-yerlikaya-en} He took the world titles of 1993, 1995 and 2005 and eight European titles between 1996 and 2006, and FILA named him Wrestler of the Century. He retired in 2007 after neck fractures that did not heal fully. {cite:wikipedia-hamza-yerlikaya-tr}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "After wrestling",
     "markdown": "Yerlikaya was elected to the Turkish parliament for Sivas and served from 2007 to 2011; he then presided over the Turkish Wrestling Federation from 2012 to 2015 and has been a Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports since July 2018, while the English article also reports him as an adviser to the Presidency. A sports complex in Istanbul's Gaziosmanpaşa district bears his name. {cite:wikipedia-hamza-yerlikaya-tr} {cite:wikipedia-hamza-yerlikaya-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Sources",
     "markdown": "- The source entities cited above, registered under `data/source/`."
    }
   ],
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   "updated": "2026-10-31"
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  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "حمزہ یرلی قایا ترک گریکو رومن پہلوان ہیں، جو 6 جون 1976 کو استنبول کے قاضی کوئے میں پیدا ہوئے؛ ان کا خاندان سیواس سے تھا۔ انہوں نے دو بار اولمپک طلائی تمغہ جیتا (1996 اور 2000)، تین بار عالمی چیمپئن اور آٹھ بار یورپی چیمپئن بنے، اور فیلا نے انہیں صدی کا پہلوان قرار دیا۔ {cite:wikipedia-hamza-yerlikaya-en} {cite:wikidata-hamza-yerlikaya}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "کیریئر اور بعد ازاں",
     "markdown": "یرلی قایا نے گیارہ سال کی عمر میں کشتی شروع کی اور سترہ سال کی عمر میں 1993 میں عالمی چیمپئن بن کر تاریخ کے کم عمر ترین عالمی چیمپئن بنے۔ اٹلانٹا 1996 میں وہ فوجی خدمت کے دوران طلائی تمغہ جیتنے والے واحد ترک ایتھلیٹ بنے۔ 2007 میں ریٹائرمنٹ کے بعد وہ سیواس سے رکن پارلیمان منتخب ہوئے، 2012 سے 2015 تک ترک ریسلنگ فیڈریشن کے صدر رہے، اور 2018 سے نائب وزیرِ کھیل ہیں۔ {cite:wikipedia-hamza-yerlikaya-en} {cite:wikipedia-hamza-yerlikaya-tr}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ماخذ",
     "markdown": "- اوپر حوالہ دیے گئے ماخذ، جو `data/source/` میں درج ہیں۔"
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