Leyla Şaylemez (1 January 1989, Mersin – 9 January 2013, Paris) was an area manager of the
PKK youth organisation. Her
nom de guerre
A pseudonym (; ) or alias () is a fictitious name that a person or group assumes for a particular purpose, which differs from their original or true name (orthonym). This also differs from a new name that entirely or legally replaces an individua ...
was Ronahî. In Turkey Leyla Şöylemez had an arrest warrant issued against her on charges of "membership of a terrorist organization".
In Turkey, there was an arrest warrant in absentia for Leyla Söylemez on the charge of "membership in a terrorist organization", but Şaylemez was wanted only in Turkey.
Background
She fled to Germany in the 1990s together with her family and lived in
Halle Halle may refer to:
Places Germany
* Halle (Saale), also called Halle an der Saale, a city in Saxony-Anhalt
** Halle (region), a former administrative region in Saxony-Anhalt
** Bezirk Halle, a former administrative division of East Germany
** Hall ...
, where she studied architecture. But she did not graduate, in order to become more involved in politics. She was assassinated in Paris on 9 January 2013, along with
Sakine Cansız
Sakine Cansız (; ku, 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 Ab ...
and
Fidan Doğan
Fidan Doğan (17 January 1982 – 9 January 2013) was a Kurdish activist and member of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, who worked at the Kurdish information centre in Paris and also represented the Brussels-based Kurdish National Congress in F ...
. She was shot in the head with a silenced weapon at the Kurdish Information Centre in Paris. Within a week of the assassination Ömer Güney was detained by the French police. After questioning him they suspected him of being involved in the murder and put him in pretrial detention. By January 21 he was the main suspect as television closed circuit images showed he was at the premises the day of the murder. In December 2016,a month before the trial would have begun, Güney died from a tumor in a hospital in Paris.
See also
*
List of unsolved murders
References
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1989 births
2013 deaths
Assassinated activists
Assassinated Kurdish people
Assassinations in France
Deaths by firearm in France
Dicle University alumni
Female murder victims
Kurdish people
Kurdish activists
Kurdish women activists
People from Mersin
Turkish Kurdish people
Unsolved murders in France