04 October 2022 | RSF
Feminist journalist of Turkish origin gunned down in Iraqi Kurdistan
Shooting
Nagihan Akarsel, a Kurdish magazine editor and influential feminist advocate, was gunned down outside her home in Iraqi Kurdistan on 4 October.
A journalist and academic of Turkish origin, Akarsel was gunned down on the morning of Tuesday 4 October outside her home in Sulaymaniyah, the city in eastern Iraqi Kurdistan where she had lived for the past three years. After her body was taken to the city’s institute for forensic medicine, the Asayish – the Kurdistan Regional Government’s security forces – issued a statement in the evening reporting that her attacker had been arrested and was being investigated.
Akarsel co-edited Jineologî, a magazine dedicated to the “science of women,” which regards women’s individual liberation as a pre-condition for society’s liberation. She was also well known for her research on women, both abroad and in Kurdistan. After studying journalism at the University of Ankara, she worked for the magazine Hevia Jin.
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