Sakine Cansız
(1958-2013)
Kurdish activist, co-founder of PKK
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Sakine Cansız (Kurdish: Sakîne Cansiz, 1958 – 9 January 2013) was one of the co-founders of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). A Kurdish activist 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 9 January 2013, along with two other female Kurdish activists, Fidan Doğan and Leyla Söylemez.
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Sakine Cansız 1958 Tunceli Province, Turkey
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9 January 2013 (aged 54) The Kurdistan Information Center in Paris, France.
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