27. Sonya Semal

Biography4 years old Placevillage of Bolê Kortek Ranya Road, Northern Iraq Date21. August 2011 DescriptionAfter the attacks started on 17. August on the 5th day the fight jets of the turkish army targeted a vehicle near the village of Bolê. 7 civilians, 4 of them children were murdered. After the attack the turkish state denied …

09. Baby Solin

Biography7 months old Placevillage of Bolê Kortek Ranya Road, Northern Iraq Date21. August 2011 DescriptionAfter the attacks started on 17. August on the 5th day the fight jets of the turkish army targeted a vehicle near the village of Bolê. 7 civilians, 4 of them children were murdered. After the attack the turkish state denied …

50. Sisters Jamila Musa and Khadija Musa

BiographyJamila, 35, and Khadija, 48, are residents of Ras al-Ain PlaceRas Al Ain, Rojava, Northern Syria Date1/24/2020 DescriptionJamila and Khadija lost their lives as a result of being shot by a member of the armed factions during the military operation on Ras al-Ain.Their brother said about their murder: „I was displaced from the village, I …

18. Sêvê Demir

BiographySêvê Demir was born in 1974 in the village called Sute from the district of Savur in Mardin, Southeastern Turkey. She had to emigrate to Manisa, Turkey, in the 90s due to the intensified repression of the state. Here she worked as an agricultural worker in fields for cotton, pepper, tomatoes and grapes. Later, Sêvê …

84. Selamet Yesilmen

BiographyThe 44-year-old Selamet Yesilmen was a mother of five children and lived in the Nusaybin district of Mardin. PlaceMardin/Nusaybin, Southeastern Turkey Date6. November 2015 DescriptionSelamet Yeşilmen was murdered in front of her house in the Nusaybin district of Mardin, where curfew and clashes took place on November 6, 2015. According to the preliminary autopsy report …

83. Şehriban Altınışık

BiographyŞehriban Altınışık was born in 1992 in Batıra village in Batman/Kurtalan. When she was just 2 years old, her family had to migrate from Kurtalan to Batman due to the pressure and torture imposed by the village guard system.Şehriban studied in Batman until the second year of primary school.  After staying in Batman for 5 years …

72. Sawsan Jamil Suleiman

Biography46 years old, from Tal Sallour village PlaceTal Sallour village, Rojava, Northern Syria Date22/08/2018 DescriptionSawsan Jamil Suleiman lost her life due to shrapnel in the leg and foot as a result of the Turkish shelling on the village

98. Samira Muhammad Ali

Biography21 years old PlaceAfrin, Rojava, Northern Syria Date23/02/2018 DescriptionSamira Muhammad Ali lost her life in the Turkish bombing of the Shia district of Afrin.

01. Sakine Cansiz

BiographyBorn 12. February 1958 in Dersim/Southern Turkey was one of the co-founders of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), having a leading role in the development of the Kurdish Women’s Movement. As a Kurdish women activist in the 1980s, she was arrested and tortured by Turkish police in the Diyarbakir Prison. She is known for her …