The latest victim of extrajudicial execution by Turkish security forces, 28 year-old Kader Ortakaya, who was shot in the head by Turkish soldiers as she crossed the border to support the Kobanê resistance on 6 November, has been laid to rest in Istanbul. Ortakaya was a member of the Social Freedom Party Initiative (TÖPG) and was an M.A. student at Marmara University.

Following religious duty at Yed'i Beyza Zeliha Hatun Mosque in Bağcılar district, the young woman was laid to rest at Habipler Yayha Cemetery.

Speaking after one minute's silence at Ortakaya's grave, a comrade of hers, Meral, promised to keep Ortakaya's struggle going.

Kurdish artist Ferhat Tunç who was also at the border and witnessed the incidents when Ortakaya was killed, told that; "She left us with a smile on her face. She was happy because she wanted to be in Kobanê."

Tunç said Ortakaya has entrusted her struggle to her comrades, and "to everyone else calling themselves human".

Social Freedom Party Initiative Representative Oğuzhan Kayserilioğlu recalled that Ortakaya had gone to Kobanê to display solidarity of the working class with the Kurdish freedom movement. He told that; “The power of change revealed in Kobanê has taken her out of the libraries and led her up into the storm in Kobanê. Her heart would always beat with the Kurds. Kader will be living in the memory of all women comrades. With her act, she has showed what the right things is. We respect her attitude and promise her to be worthy of her struggle.”

ESP (Socialist Party of the Oppressed) Party Assembly member Ali Haydar Akdeniz underlined that; "They shall not think that she has died, as she will be living in the heart of these peoples, just like Serkan Tosun and Nejat Suphi Ağırnaslı."

Representatives from the EHP, SDP, SYKP, SODAP and Kaldıraç also made statements promising to protect the struggle heritage left behind by Ortakaya. The commemoration ended with the reading of the Austrian Workers March.

A tent has been put up in front of the HDP Bağcılar district organization office where Ortakaya's family and friends will be receiving visits of condolence.