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  "ar": "حمدي علوقيا",
  "en": "Hamdi Ulukaya",
  "ur": "حمدی اولوکایا"
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  "ar": "حمدي أولوكايا ⁦(وُلد سنة ١٩٧٢ في إيليتش بشرق تركيا)⁩ رجل أعمال تركي أمريكي من أصل كردي، مؤسس شركة تشوباني لليوغورت المصفّى ومالكها ورئيسها التنفيذي؛ نشأ في أسرة كردية لتربية الماشية ومنتجات الألبان، ونشط في الحركة الحقوقية الكردية قبل انتقاله إلى الولايات المتحدة سنة ١٩٩٤، وبنى تشوباني من مصنع يوغورت متعثر اشتراه سنة ٢٠٠٥ حتى تجاوزت مبيعاتها مليار دولار، وعُرف بعمله الخيري ودعمه لتوظيف اللاجئين.",
  "en": "Hamdi Ulukaya (born 1972 in Ilic, eastern Turkey) is a Turkish-American businessman of Kurdish ethnicity, founder, owner and CEO of the Chobani strained-yogurt company; raised in a Kurdish dairy-farming family and active in the Kurdish-rights movement before moving to the United States in 1994, he built Chobani from a derelict yogurt plant bought in 2005 into a billion-dollar brand, and is known for his philanthropy and his hiring of refugees.",
  "ur": "حمدی اولوکایا ⁦(پیدائش 1972، ایلیچ، مشرقی ترکی)⁩ کرد نژاد ترک امریکی کاروباری ہیں، چوبانی کمپنی کے بانی و سی ای او؛ کرد مویشی پال خاندان میں پرورش پائی، کرد حقوق کی تحریک سے وابستہ رہے، 1994 میں امریکہ منتقل ہوئے، اور 2005 میں خریدے گئے کارخانے سے چوبانی کو ارب ڈالر برانڈ بنایا؛ وہ سماجی کاموں اور مہاجرین کی ملازمت کے لیے بھی معروف ہیں۔"
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   "edtf": "1972",
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   "note": "Only the year 1972 is safely attested. The English article says he uses 26 October as his birthday but is himself uncertain of his exact birth date, having been born during a family mountain trek, and Wikidata's statement likewise gives 26 October 1972; where the subject himself is uncertain of the exact day, the year alone is recorded. A bare year spans two hijri years, so no hijri year is recorded.",
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   "edtf": "1972",
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   "status": "historical",
   "note": "Only the year 1972 is safely attested. The English article says he uses 26 October as his birthday but is himself uncertain of his exact birth date, having been born during a family mountain trek, and Wikidata's statement likewise gives 26 October 1972; where the subject himself is uncertain of the exact day, the year alone is recorded. A bare year spans two hijri years, so no hijri year is recorded.",
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    "value": "unknown",
    "basis": "unknown",
    "note": "No text read names a faith for Hamdi Ulukaya himself. The English and Arabic articles are silent on his religion and his Wikidata item carries no religion statement. His Kurdish ethnicity and his family's dairy-farming background are ancestry, not attestation, and no text names a school or order for the man himself. The value is therefore unknown.",
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   "source": "English Wikipedia article 'Hamdi Ulukaya' revision 1383410171 of 2 November 2026; Arabic Wikipedia article 'حمدي علوقيا' revision 72447343 of 13 November 2025; Wikidata item Q12071778 revision 2518611975 of 17 July 2026 (all retrieved live in-session on 2 November 2026 via the MediaWiki API; the Wikidata revision re-asserted identical on a second query). The English article and Wikidata agree on 26 October 1972 as his birthday, but the article notes his own uncertainty about his exact birth date, so the year 1972 alone is recorded. No record or draft stub for him existed on main (checked against origin/main on 2 November 2026 by slug, name fragments and QID). The queue's 1972 birth year is correct.",
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "ملخص",
     "markdown": "حمدي أولوكايا ⁦(وُلد سنة 1972)⁩ رجل أعمال ملياردير تركي أمريكي من أصل كردي، مؤسس شركة تشوباني لليوغورت ومالكها ورئيسها التنفيذي، ونال لقب رائد أعمال العام العالمي من إرنست آند يونغ سنة 2013 {cite:wikipedia-hamdi-ulukaya-en} {cite:wikipedia-hamdi-ulukaya-ar}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "حياته",
     "markdown": "وُلد أولوكايا سنة 1972 في أسرة كردية لتربية الماشية ومنتجات الألبان في إيليتش بأرزينجان على نهر الفرات، واحدًا من سبعة أطفال، وهو غير متأكد من تاريخ مولده الدقيق ويحتفل به في 26 تشرين الأول {cite:wikipedia-hamdi-ulukaya-en} {cite:wikipedia-hamdi-ulukaya-ar}. درس العلوم السياسية في جامعة أنقرة وانضم إلى الحركة الحقوقية الكردية، وفي سنة 1994 انتقل إلى الولايات المتحدة محتكمًا إلى اضطهاد الدولة التركية لأقليتها الكردية {cite:wikipedia-hamdi-ulukaya-en}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "أعماله",
     "markdown": "بعد استيراد جبنة أسرته وفتح مصنع صغير سنة 2002، اشترى أولوكايا مصنع يوغورت مغلقًا لكرافت في ساوث إدمستون بنيويورك سنة 2005 وأطلق تشوباني سنة 2007، فتجاوزت مبيعاتها السنوية مليار دولار في خمس سنوات وافتتح أكبر مصنع يوغورت في العالم في توين فولز بأيداهو سنة 2012 {cite:wikipedia-hamdi-ulukaya-en} {cite:wikipedia-hamdi-ulukaya-ar}. تبرع بجزء كبير من ثروته، وأسس شراكة «تنت» للاجئين لحشد الشركات على توظيفهم، وعيّنته الأمم المتحدة سنة 2022 مناصرًا لأهداف التنمية المستدامة {cite:wikipedia-hamdi-ulukaya-en}. لا يسمي أي نص مقروء لهذا السجل دينًا لأولوكايا نفسه، ولذلك سُجل دينه غير معروف {cite:wikipedia-hamdi-ulukaya-en} {cite:wikipedia-hamdi-ulukaya-ar} {cite:wikidata-hamdi-ulukaya}."
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     "heading": "المصادر",
     "markdown": "- {cite:wikipedia-hamdi-ulukaya-en}\n- {cite:wikipedia-hamdi-ulukaya-ar}\n- {cite:wikidata-hamdi-ulukaya}"
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   "updated": "2026-11-06"
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Hamdi Ulukaya (born 1972) is a Turkish-American billionaire businessman of Kurdish ethnicity, the founder, owner and CEO of the Chobani yogurt company, named Ernst & Young World Entrepreneur of the Year in 2013 {cite:wikipedia-hamdi-ulukaya-en} {cite:wikipedia-hamdi-ulukaya-ar}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Life",
     "markdown": "Ulukaya was born in 1972 to a Kurdish dairy-farming family in Ilic, Erzincan, by the Euphrates River, one of seven children, and he is uncertain of his exact birth date, which he marks on 26 October {cite:wikipedia-hamdi-ulukaya-en} {cite:wikipedia-hamdi-ulukaya-ar}. Studying political science at Ankara University he joined the Kurdish-rights movement, and in 1994 he moved to the United States, citing the Turkish state's oppression of its Kurdish minority {cite:wikipedia-hamdi-ulukaya-en}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Work",
     "markdown": "After importing his family's feta cheese and opening a small plant in 2002, Ulukaya bought a closed Kraft yogurt factory in South Edmeston, New York, in 2005 and launched Chobani in 2007, reaching over a billion dollars in annual sales within five years and opening the world's largest yogurt plant in Twin Falls, Idaho, in 2012 {cite:wikipedia-hamdi-ulukaya-en} {cite:wikipedia-hamdi-ulukaya-ar}. He has given away much of his wealth, founded the Tent Partnership for Refugees to mobilise business hiring of refugees, and in 2022 was appointed a UN advocate for the Sustainable Development Goals {cite:wikipedia-hamdi-ulukaya-en}. No text read for this record names a faith for Ulukaya himself, so his faith is recorded as unknown {cite:wikipedia-hamdi-ulukaya-en} {cite:wikipedia-hamdi-ulukaya-ar} {cite:wikidata-hamdi-ulukaya}."
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     "heading": "Sources",
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    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "حمدی اولوکایا (پیدائش 1972) کرد نژاد ترک امریکی ارب پتی کاروباری ہیں، چوبانی کمپنی کے بانی و سی ای او، جنھیں 2013 میں ارنسٹ اینڈ ینگ ورلڈ انٹراپرینیور آف دی ایئر قرار دیا گیا {cite:wikipedia-hamdi-ulukaya-en} {cite:wikipedia-hamdi-ulukaya-ar}۔"
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     "heading": "زندگی و کام",
     "markdown": "اولوکایا 1972 میں ایلیچ کے کرد مویشی پال خاندان میں پیدا ہوئے اور اپنی درست تاریخ پیدائش سے خود بھی لاعلم ہیں {cite:wikipedia-hamdi-ulukaya-en} {cite:wikipedia-hamdi-ulukaya-ar}۔ وہ کرد حقوق کی تحریک سے وابستہ رہے اور 1994 میں امریکہ منتقل ہوئے {cite:wikipedia-hamdi-ulukaya-en}۔ 2005 میں بند پڑا دہی کارخانہ خرید کر 2007 میں چوبانی شروع کی، جو پانچ برس میں ارب ڈالر فروخت تک پہنچی؛ وہ مہاجرین کی ملازمت کے حامی اور بڑے سماجی کارکن ہیں {cite:wikipedia-hamdi-ulukaya-en}۔ اس ریکارڈ کے لیے پڑھے گئے کسی متن میں ان کے اپنے مذہب کا نام نہیں، لہٰذا ان کا مذہب غیر معلوم درج ہے {cite:wikipedia-hamdi-ulukaya-en} {cite:wikipedia-hamdi-ulukaya-ar} {cite:wikidata-hamdi-ulukaya}۔"
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     "heading": "مآخذ",
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