Filiz Yerlikaya

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Filiz Yerlikaya (born May 4, 1971 in Adilcevaz , Bitlis Province , † June 7, 2002 ) was a fighter and functionary of the underground organization of the Kurdistan Workers' Party . Her code name was Gulan. She was murdered in 2002 at a party congress in the Kandil Mountains and is venerated as a martyr within the organization.

Life

Filiz Yerlikaya spent her childhood and early school years in Adilcevaz. At the age of eight, she moved to Ankara with her family. After completing school she was admitted to study medicine at Çukurova University in Adana . However, the family did not agree, so she studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts at Gazi University in Ankara .

From 1992 she was active in the youth organization of the PKK and in the same year tried to join the guerrillas of the People's Liberation Army of Kurdistan , but was caught and was imprisoned for seven months.

In 1993 she stayed for about 10 months in the immediate vicinity of Abdullah Öcalan in Damascus. From 1994 she worked in different places, between 1994 and 1997 in the so-called "Province of Garzan" by the organization, in 1997 in the "Province of Amed", and from winter 1998 in Northern Iraq.

The PKK-affiliated newspaper Yeni Özgür Politika ascribes various functions to her. Filiz Yerlikaya was either responsible for the special forces of the PKK or group leader and provincial leadership of the women's guerrilla (YAJK).

death

During the 4th congress of the PJA, the then women's organization of the PKK, she was murdered as a result of intra-party power struggles. The event took place in a tent. When she left the tent because she was unwell, she was strangled. The PKK immediately declared her a martyr and declared that the crime had been committed by conspirators. The imprisoned party leader, Abdullah Öcalan , did not find out about her death until two years later during a conversation with his lawyers. He couldn't remember her, but said the murder was a maneuver designed to disempower the woman. Since then, she has been celebrated in numerous publications by the organization as a pioneer of the “line of self-sacrifice” or as a symbol of the insistence on a free life.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Minutes from July 28, 2004 ( Memento from July 17, 2007 in the web archive archive.today )
  2. ↑ Party organ: Yeni Özgür Politika, June 20, 2008 ( Memento of the original from December 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.yeniozgurpolitika.org
  3. ^ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Party organ: Yeni Özgür Politika, October 25, 2008@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / yeniozgurpolitika.com
  4. ↑ rojaciwan.com ( Memento from February 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Ciwanen Azad No. 23@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.ciwanenazad.org

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personal data
SURNAME Yerlikaya, Filiz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gulan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish martyr of the Kurdistan Workers' Party
DATE OF BIRTH 4th May 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Adilcevaz
DATE OF DEATH June 7, 2002
Place of death Kandil mountains