Şirin Cemgil

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Sirin Yazıcıoğlu Cemgil
Born11 May 1945
Buldan, Denizli
Died17 April 2009
Duisburg, Germany
Burial place Karacaahmet Cemetery, Istanbul
Alma mater Ankara University
OccupationLawyer
Known for1968 Turkish student movement
Children1

Sirin Yazıcıoğlu Cemgil (11 May 1945; Buldan, Denizli, Turkey – 17 April 2009; Duisburg, Germany) was a Turkish lawyer; she was a significant activist in the 1968 student movement.

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Actively involved in the 1968 student movement, she participated in the Turkish Workers' Party and the Federation of Clubs of Opinion.

Whilst she was a law student at Ankara University, she married Sinan Cemgil, the symbolic persona of the 1968 movement and student of Middle East Technical University Architecture department, on February 8, 1969. On January 28, 1970, she gave birth to their son, who was named Taylan in honor of Taylan Özgur. After graduating she worked as a lawyer for a while. She took on the cases of progressive-democrats who were being prosecuted on political cases. She was imprisoned after the 1971 Turkish military memorandum. Her husband Sinan Cemgil, was shot during gendarme raid in the Nurhak Mountains in Kahramanmaraş, where he headed with Deniz Gezmiş and his friends to prepare for the guerilla battle.

Following her husband's death, Cemgil married Mehmet Özler which lasted for a few years. She got arrested after the 1980 Turkish coup d'état and spent two years in prison. When she was released in 1981, she left the country via political exile. She lived in Duisburg, Germany for 27 years. She died of poisoning due to intestinal knotting on April 17, 2009. She was buried in Istanbul's Karacaahmet Cemetery. [1]

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References

  1. Soner Yalçın (17 August 2014). "Bir Amazon Kadını:Şirin Cemgil". Sözcü . Retrieved 4 March 2017.