17 years after their tragic accidental death in South Kurdistan, internationalists Uta Schneiderbanger (Nûdem) and Ekin Ceren Doğruak (Amara) were remembered in Mülheim and in Ankara.

Commemorating Uta Schneiderbanger

Members of the women's meeting place UTAMARA and the Kurdish women's office Ceni as well as members of the Duisburg women's council Asya Yüksel and women from Essen and Dortmund took part in the commemoration of Uta Schneiderbanger at her grave in Mülheim. Speeches pointed out the legacy of the two internationalists for the women's liberation movement and stated that this fight will be continued.

Ekin Ceren Doğruak was commemorated by family and friends at her grave in Karşıyaka Cemetery. The co-chair of the HDP association in Ankara, Vezir Parlak, gave a speech and said that the memory of the young internationalist lives on in the struggle: “We think of our comrade Amara with respect and gratitude. We will never forget those who do not leave the Kurdish people alone in difficult times.”

Uta and Ekin

Uta Schneiderbanger, born in Mülheim an der Ruhr in 1961, called herself Nûdem in the Kurdish liberation movement.

Ekin Ceren Doğruak (Amara) was born in Ankara in 1981 to a Turkish family. Both women died on 31 May 2005 in a fatal car accident near the South Kurdish town of Qeladizê. The two internationalists were on their way back from the III. General Assembly of the People's Congress of Kurdistan (Kongra Gel) to Europe when the driver lost control of the car in the steep mountainous terrain.