[1] She worked as a treasury clerk until in 1980 she went into exile, due to the political situation after the military coup.
[2] Before returning to Turkey to stand for election, she worked for many years for women and human rights organizations.
[3] In 2010 she was sentenced to 10 months in prison by the Malatya 3rd Heavy Penal Court on charges of making propaganda for an illegal organisation.
[2] Regarding the atrocities against Kurds during the Dersim Rebellion she demanded the Turkish Government to open the archives.
[10] In prison she took up writing and contributed to Gültan Kisanak's book The Color Purple of Kurdish Politics.