An elegy for Nagihan Akarsel

Nagihan Akarsel, a Kurdish scholar, activist, journalist and
co-founder of the feminist Jineology Research Centre, was shot dead
earlier this week in an armed attack in Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi
Kurdistan. Her death, which recalls previous extrajudicial killings
of Kurdish women’s activists by the Turkish intelligence services,
has sparked protests in Kurdistan and around the world. Here, her
friend and colleague Haskar Kırmızıgül shares some reflections on
her life, work and untimely death. The audio version is read by
Rahila Gupta.