Fidan Doğan

Fidan Doğan (17 January 1982 – 9 January 2013) was a Kurdish activist and co-founder of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, who worked at the Kurdish information centre in Paris and also represented the Brussels-based Kurdish National Congress in France.

Fidan Doğan
Fidan Doğan in Strasbourg 2012
Born17 January 1982
Elbistan, Kahramanmaraş, Turkey
DiedJanuary 9, 2013(2013-01-09) (aged 30)
Paris, France
Cause of deathExecution-style shooting
OccupationKurdish rights advocate

Born in Elbistan in southern Turkey, Doğan moved to France when she was young. She grew up in Strasbourg, where she completed her university education. She was engaged in the Kurdistan National Congress and was a women's rights activist.[1]

Death

She was assassinated in Paris on 9 January 2013, along with Sakine Cansız and Leyla Şöylemez.[2][3] On the 17 January in Diyarbakir tens of thousands of Kurds remembered the three women in a ceremony.[4] Her funeral was conducted by an Alevi dede.[5] She was buried in her family's village in the province of Kahramanmaraş's Elbistan district.[6]

Aftermath

Tributes after her death revealed that she was well known in political circles, as well as being close to Abdullah Öcalan, one of the founders of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). The President of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, made a point of receiving her family to pay his condolences in person. The rapporteur for Turkey of the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly, Josette Durrieu, also paid tribute in glowing terms.[7][8]

François Hollande's statement that he knew one of the three women assassinated in Paris (which provoked a strong reaction from Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan), raised speculation that Doğan was also in regular contact with the French president.[9][10]

Main article: Triple murder of Kurdish activists in Paris

After her death, there was considerable speculation that the killing of the three women was an attempt to derail the fledgling peace process that had recently begun between the Turkish authorities and Öcalan.[11][12]

See also

References
  1. "Fidan Dogan, l'une des trois militantes kurdes assassinées à Paris a vécu à Strasbourg". France 3. 2013-01-10. Retrieved 2013-01-23.
  2. "Who Murdered Sakine Cansız?". Amnesty International USA. 2013-01-11. Retrieved 2020-01-09.
  3. "Kurdish activists shot dead in Paris". The Guardian. 2013-01-10. Retrieved 2013-01-12.
  4. Reynolds, James (2013-01-17). "Calls for peace at slain PKK activists' funerals". Retrieved 2019-07-27.
  5. Paris killing victim buried with participation of thousands, Doğan News Agency, dated 18 January 2013.
  6. "Paris killing victim buried with participation of thousands". Hurriyet. 2013-01-18. Retrieved 2013-02-17.
  7. "FIDAN DOGAN'S FAMILY INVITED TO EU SESSION IN STRASSBURG". Mesop. 2013-01-15. Archived from the original on 2013-02-17. Retrieved 2013-01-23.
  8. "Assassinat de trois femmes kurdes". The Guardian. 2013-01-17. Archived from the original on 2013-02-17. Retrieved 2013-01-23.
  9. "Erdogan queries Hollande links with dead Kurd". Al Jazeera. 2013-01-12. Retrieved 2013-01-23.
  10. "ERDOĞAN CALLS ON HOLLANDE TO EXPLAIN WHY HE MET WITH A PKK TERRORIST". Sabah. 2013-01-14. Retrieved 2013-01-23.
  11. "Kurdistan's Female Fighters". Roj women. 2013-02-15. Archived from the original on 2013-03-16. Retrieved 2013-02-17.
  12. "3 Kurdish women political activists shot dead in Paris". CNN. 2013-01-11. Retrieved 2013-02-17.
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