[1] As a dissenting political voice from the far-left, Boran was repeatedly imprisoned for her work and died in exile after the Turkish military coup of 1980.
Boran was born in Bursa to Kazan Tatar parents whose families had settled in the Ottoman Empire during the 1890s.
[2] She graduated from American College for Girls in Istanbul and studied sociology at the University of Michigan in the United States.
[6] After the military coup of 1980, Boran went into exile in Europe, living as a political refugee in Sofia, Brussels and Düsseldorf.
Her body was brought to Istanbul and her funeral turned into a mass demonstration, the first public show of force of Turkey's left-wing movement after the coup.