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  "ar": "محمد أوكور",
  "en": "Mehmet Okur",
  "ur": "محمد اوکور"
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  "ar": "لاعب كرة سلة تركي سابق ومدرب ⁦(وُلد سنة 1979 في يالوفا)⁩، أول لاعب تركي يفوز ببطولة NBA ⁦(مع ديترويت بيستونز سنة 2004)⁩، وأمضى سبعة مواسم مع يوتا جاز، ثم صار سنة 2016 أول مواطن تركي يعمل مدرباً في NBA.",
  "en": "Turkish former basketball player and coach (born 1979 at Yalova), the first Turkish player to win an NBA championship (with the Detroit Pistons in 2004); he played seven seasons for the Utah Jazz and in 2016 became the first Turkish citizen to coach in the NBA.",
  "ur": "ترک سابق باسکٹ بال کھلاڑی اور کوچ ⁦(پیدائش 1979، یالووا)⁩؛ NBA چیمپئن شپ جیتنے والے پہلے ترک کھلاڑی ⁦(ڈیٹرائٹ پسٹنز، 2004)⁩؛ یوٹا جاز کے ساتھ سات سیزن کھیلے اور 2016 میں NBA میں کوچنگ کرنے والے پہلے ترک شہری بنے۔"
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   "note": "Born on 26 May 1979 at Yalova, Turkey: the English, Turkish and Arabic articles and Wikidata agree on the day and the town. Yalova has no place entity, so the fact is carried here and no born_in edge is written. The Hijri year 1399 is a tabular conversion of the followed date, marked derived.",
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    "value": "Mehmet Murat Okur",
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    "value": "محمد أوكور",
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   "hijri": "1399",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
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   "status": "historical",
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   "note": "Born on 26 May 1979 at Yalova, Turkey: the English, Turkish and Arabic articles and Wikidata agree on the day and the town. Yalova has no place entity, so the fact is carried here and no born_in edge is written. The Hijri year 1399 is a tabular conversion of the followed date, marked derived.",
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    "source/wikidata-mehmet-okur"
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   "coach"
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    "basis": "unknown",
    "note": "Absence configuration. The English, Turkish and Arabic biographies contain no religion content, and targeted press searching in this session found no statement by Okur about his own faith and no reporting of his practice. Wikidata's religion (P140) value is Islam — one structured family, uncorroborated in any text read — which on its own does not settle a value; his Turkish birth and name were expressly not treated as evidence. The settlement therefore stays unknown, unflagged.",
    "sources": [
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