[3] As a chemist, she calls the Chernobyl catastrophe of 1986 and the chemical attack in Halabja in 1988 two major events turning points in her life.
[2] After her release, she became the Editor in-Chief of Özgür Gündem, a newspaper which showed the Kurdish side of the Kurdish-Turkish conflict.
[1] But her tenure was short-lived as she was detained with 107 other people during a search of the newspapers headquarters in Istanbul on the 10 December 1993.
[1] A case was opened at the European Court of Human Rights in 1998 mentioning her together with other former staff members of Özgür Gündem.
[11] The visual artist Banu Cennetoğlu presented an art work about her diary at the Documenta 14 in Athens.