Hande Kader | |
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![]() Hande Kader during banned Istanbul Pride, June 2015 | |
Born | 5 January 1993 |
Disappeared | August 2016 |
Cause of death | Murder, rape |
Body discovered | 12 August 2016 |
Occupation(s) | Sex worker, activist for LGBT rights |
Hande Kader (1993 – August 2016) was a politically active Turkish transgender woman. Kader was familiar to millions of Turks as a figurehead for the LGBT community after being photographed at the forefront of the resistance against police forces suppressing the 2015 Gay Pride event in Istanbul. [1] In August 2016, she was reported missing by her flatmate when she failed to return home the following week. [2] Her body was found raped, mutilated, and burnt [3] by the roadside in the Zekeriyaköy up-market on 12 August 2016. [4] Despite being badly mutilated, Kader's body was identified by prosthetics at the city morgue by Dengiler. [2] [3]
Kader was employed in the sex industry as a sex worker, and was last seen getting into a client's car. [5] [6] She was 23 years old at the time of her death. [7] The official cause of death has not yet been released. Reports indicate that after death her corpse was set on fire, possibly to avoid identification of the perpetrator(s). [8]
Following her death, there has been a public outcry and protests against the mistreatment of transgender people in Turkish society. [4] [9] [10] [7]
Boğaziçi University LGBT Studies Student Club (BULGBTİ) announced a fellowship in honor of Hande Kader that will be given to a trans student at the university starting from 2017–2018 academic year. [11] However, the office of the president later announced that the fellowship was not within their knowledge and reimbursed the donations. [12]
Hande Kader | |
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![]() Hande Kader during banned Istanbul Pride, June 2015 | |
Born | 5 January 1993 |
Disappeared | August 2016 |
Cause of death | Murder, rape |
Body discovered | 12 August 2016 |
Occupation(s) | Sex worker, activist for LGBT rights |
Hande Kader (1993 – August 2016) was a politically active Turkish transgender woman. Kader was familiar to millions of Turks as a figurehead for the LGBT community after being photographed at the forefront of the resistance against police forces suppressing the 2015 Gay Pride event in Istanbul. [1] In August 2016, she was reported missing by her flatmate when she failed to return home the following week. [2] Her body was found raped, mutilated, and burnt [3] by the roadside in the Zekeriyaköy up-market on 12 August 2016. [4] Despite being badly mutilated, Kader's body was identified by prosthetics at the city morgue by Dengiler. [2] [3]
Kader was employed in the sex industry as a sex worker, and was last seen getting into a client's car. [5] [6] She was 23 years old at the time of her death. [7] The official cause of death has not yet been released. Reports indicate that after death her corpse was set on fire, possibly to avoid identification of the perpetrator(s). [8]
Following her death, there has been a public outcry and protests against the mistreatment of transgender people in Turkish society. [4] [9] [10] [7]
Boğaziçi University LGBT Studies Student Club (BULGBTİ) announced a fellowship in honor of Hande Kader that will be given to a trans student at the university starting from 2017–2018 academic year. [11] However, the office of the president later announced that the fellowship was not within their knowledge and reimbursed the donations. [12]