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Sakine Cansız

1958–2013

Nationality
Turkey
Occupation
political activist

Sakine Cansız (Turkish pronunciation: [saːciˈne dʒanˈsɯz]; Kurdish: Sakîne Cansiz, IPA: [sɑːkiːnɛ dʒɑːnsɪz]; 1958 – 10 January 2013) was one of the co-founders of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

Incarceration history

Facilities

  1. Diyarbakır Prison
    Dates unknown

Biography

Sakine Cansız (Turkish pronunciation: [saːciˈne dʒanˈsɯz]; Kurdish: Sakîne Cansiz, IPA: [sɑːkiːnɛ dʒɑːnsɪz]; 1958 – 10 January 2013) was one of the co-founders of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). A Kurdish activist and in the 1980s, she was arrested and tortured by Turkish police. A close associate of Abdullah Öcalan and a senior member of the PKK, she was shot dead during the triple murder of Kurdish activists in Paris, France, on 10 January 2013, along with two other female Kurdish activists, Fidan Doğan and Leyla Söylemez.

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