Seda Dudurkaeva

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Seda Dudurkaeva
Born (1993-04-24) 24 April 1993 (age 32)
Grozny, Chechnya
Nationality Chechen
Citizenship Russia
MovementIslamic State flag.svg Islamic State
Spouse(s)
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(m. 2013;died 2014)​
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(m. 2014;died 2016)​
Partner Nuradin Rustamov 2018 – 2019
ChildrenTwo boys
Parent(s)Milana Dudurkaeva, Asu Dudurkayev
Criminal chargeLinks to ISIS
Wanted by
 Interpol
Date apprehended
20 July 2018
Imprisoned at Turkey

Seda Dudurkaeva (born 24 April 1993) is a Chechen woman and a Russian citizen. Famous in her native Chechnya for her beauty, Dudurkaeva travelled to Syria and married in succession two Islamic State militants both of whom were killed in the war. [1] She was later arrested in Turkey over her connections to ISIS.

Around August 2013 Dudurkaeva married Hamzat Borchashvili, a rank and file ISIS fighter, who in Syria went by the name Abu Abdullah. [1]

The marriage caused a scandal in Chechnya, where Dudurkaeva's father, Asu Dudurkaev, was a wealthy senior government official. [1] Ramzan Kadyrov, head of the Chechen government, had declared a fight against Wahhabist influence there, and sacked Dudurkaev. Kadyrov demanded that Dudurkaeva return to Chechnya, but she refused. [1]

Borchashvili was killed in 2014, and Dudurkaeva then married prominent Georgian-Chechen Islamic State commander, Abu Omar al-Shishani. She reportedly bore al-Shishani two children. [2]

According to one report there were rumours, but no evidence, that al-Shishani had arranged the death of his subordinate, Borchashvili, in order to wed Dudurkaeva. [3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Burchuladze, Nino (27 January 2014). ""I didn't raise my children to be killed in Syria" (Exclusive)" (in Georgian). Kviris Palitra. Archived from the original on 31 March 2025. Retrieved 31 March 2025.
  2. ↑ "DEAŞ'lı Çeçen gelin 'kırmızı bültenle' aranıyormuş". Reuters. 2018-10-10. Retrieved 2018-04-21.
  3. ↑ Cathcart, Will; Vazha, Tavberidze; Nino, Burchuladze (27 October 2014). "The Secret Life of an ISIS Warlord". The Daily Beast. Archived from the original on 21 February 2025. Retrieved 31 March 2025.

Other sources

  • Keser, Ahmet; Ulusoy, Bilal (13 July 2020). "Bırakınız Gitsinler, Bırakınız Savaşsınlar (Laissez Jihad): Kafkasya'dan DAEŞ'e Katılım Nedenleri". Güvenlik Stratejileri Dergisi (in Turkish). 16 (34): 203–243. doi: 10.17752/guvenlikstrtj.768605 . ISSN   1305-4740 . Retrieved 8 November 2023. 20-year-old Seda Dudurkaeva fell in love with a young man who had an Islamic thought outside of traditional Islam. In April 2013, the man she loved left the country to fight in Syria, and Seda, who was waiting for a suitable moment, went to Syria after him... Seda was captured on camera while at the Syrian border, but no one saw Seda again after that. Seda's family asked the officers for help to reach the man from whom Seda ran away. The officer managed to find the brother of the man from whom Seda ran away. His brother agreed to help and went to Syria. He found both the girl and his beloved. He tried to persuade them to return, but they refused to return (to Russia). 'Seda was telling her family that she married her husband according to Islamic rules and that she could not go anywhere without her husband.' quote taken from section 2.5, pp 231-232. Google Translation of the abstract:
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