Halim Dener was a 16-year-old Kurdish boy shot dead by a German police officer in Hanover, on 29 June 1994.

Dener was raised in the village of Parçuk near Keklikdere, experiencing the clashes with Turkish authorities who subjected residents to physical abuse, raids, and arbitrary arrest.

At 16, Dener came to Germany as an unaccompanied minor and in early May 1994, he applied for asylum under the name Ayhan Eser.

[5] A mural painted to commemorate Dener in 1994 on a social centre in Bielefeld became subject to a three-year legal battle and was eventually declared in 2020 to be a work of art (and therefore not illegal).

[7][8] In 2021, 300 people marched in memory of Dener and to protest recent police raids on a Kurdish social centre.