Sakine Cansız
Deceased Person
1958 – 2013
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Who was Sakine Cansız?
Sakine Cansız was one of the co-founders of the Kurdistan Workers' Party. 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 in Paris, France, on 9 January 2013, with two other female Kurdish activists, Fidan Doğan and Leyla Söylemez.
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