International News Safety Institute

22 August 2024  |  CPJ

Hero Bahadin

Incident

Multimedia editor killed in Turkish drone strike in northern Iraq

Cause of death

Other non-natural

Details

Hero Bahadin, a 27-year-old Kurdish Iraqi video editor with Chatr Multimedia Production Company, was killed on August 23, 2024, when a Turkish drone strike hit her unmarked car near Goptapa village in Iraqi Kurdistan’s northeastern Sulaymaniyah province.

Gulistan Tara, a Kurdish journalist from Turkey, one of two colleagues in the car, was also killed. Rebin Bakir, a Kurdish Iraqi video editor and social media officer, received treatment for broken legs and hands at Shar Hospital in Sulaymaniyah, Sterk TV reporter Hawzhin Shwan told CPJ.

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