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Having lost his life in Germany, Şerafettin Kaya has been laid to rest in Turkey’s Muş. Defending young Kurdish people after the military memorandum in 1971, he was subjected to inhuman treatment alongside them in Diyarbakır Prison after the 1980 coup.

Üner was always political and a leftist. But in the past 20 years, he truly embraced and sharpened this political and activist side to him. Until it was banned, he participated without fail in the weekly Saturday Mothers demonstrations at Galatasaray Square.

The daughter of a Muslim-Arab father from Damascus and an Orthodox-Greek mother from İzmir in a marriage which caused them both to be excluded from their communities, Etel Adnan has lost her life at the age of 96.

Hospitalized after a heart attack, actor Rasim Öztekin has lost his life at the age of 62. In 2016, Öztekin was handed over a symbolic award for traditional theater, titled Hasan Efendi Turban, named after a pioneering comedian.