Zeynep Kınacı

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Zeynep Kınacı , alias Zilan , (born August 10, 1972 in Elmalı in the province of Malatya , † June 30, 1996 in Tunceli ) was the code name of a suicide bomber of the underground organization Workers' Party of Kurdistan . It blew itself up in 1996 in the midst of a military “flag ceremony” in the city center of Tunceli (Dersim). Seven people died in the attack and 33 others were injured. For the deed, she is venerated as a martyr by the PKK.

Life

Zeynep Kınacı was born in 1972 in Elmalı village near Malatya. She attended elementary and middle school in Malatya . She graduated from the vocational school for health in Haydarpaşa . She studied psychology at İnönü Üniversitesi in Malatya and worked as a radiology assistant in the state hospital. In 1994 she joined the PKK and worked for the organization in Adana for a year . In 1995 she went to the guerrilla forces of the ARGK in the Tunceli region. On June 30, 1996, she killed at least six Turkish soldiers in a suicide bombing during a military parade in downtown Tunceli . According to the PKK, Zilan left a farewell letter. There it said:

“I want to be the expression of my people's struggle for freedom. Against the policy of imperialism to enslave women, I would like to light the bomb on my body and at the same time show all my anger and be the symbol of the resistance of Kurdish women. My will to live is very strong. My wish is a fulfilled life through great action. "

The suicide attack ( fedai eylem ) was subsequently presented as an “example of a well-planned military attack” during a PKK military training course. Since then she has been an icon of the PKK, which highlights her attack as an example of the "great resistance" and does not consider it a suicide. Since 2004, the PKK has held an annual women's festival in the Ruhr area that bears its name: the International Zilan Women's Festival.

Zeynep Kınacı was married. Her husband was arrested in 1995. The couple had no children.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ministry of the Interior of the State of Saxony-Anhalt: Constitutional Protection Report 2004 ; P. 102, fn. 48.
  2. ↑ a b Ministry of the Interior of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia: Constitutional Protection Report of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia for 2006 ; P. 149, fn. 31. ( PDF; 1.84 MB ( Memento of August 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive ))
  3. ↑ Free Kurdistan Women's Office: Zilan. Three women three actions ; 1997, self-published. Quoted from Anja Flach: Women in the Kurdish guerrillas . Cologne 2007, p. 91f.
  4. ↑ Anja Flach: Women in the Kurdish guerrilla . Cologne 2007, p. 92
  5. ↑ See Öcalan's speech about Zilan on the martyr side of the PKK
personal data
SURNAME Kınacı, Zeynep
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zilan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kurdish suicide bomber of the Kurdistan Workers' Party
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Elmalı
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1996
Place of death Tunceli