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İSTANBUL - HDP Üsküdar District Organization Member Asiye Aykan, who was killed by Yılmaz Aykan, was going to houses for housecleaning, was taking part in neighborhood meetings, was doing election works, and was earning her living with her own effort.

 

There are only two words left from her life, which is ended by a male violence, to describe her ‘self-sacrificing’ and ‘labor’. And also her fellows’ struggle was left.

 

The funeral of People’s Democratic Party (HDP) Üsküdar District Organization Member Asiye Aykan, who is killed by her spouse Yılmaz Aykan in the İstanbul’s Üsküdar district on November 27, was paid her last respect with the arrangements made in Ümraniye Ihlamurkuyu Mosque. Women, who want to carry Asiye’s coffin were also subjected to male violence.

 

Whether they didn’t allow women to carry of Asiye’s coffin; the process watch of her case and her life, which was full of struggle, is now on women’s shoulders...

 

HDP Üsküdar Provincial Co-Mayor Gülistan Kan, who struggled with Asiye, talked to us about Asiye. Stating that a house laborer Asiye, who goes to houses for housecleaning to meet her family’s needs, Gülistan reacted to her murderer Yılmaz Aykan’s family: “You all didn’t look after her when she was alive, and you stopped us to make something for her even she is dead. We won’t stop chasing Yılmaz, who says ‘I am sorry’.We will do our best to make him tried in a court. Asiye had been systematically subjected to Yılmaz’s violence, but Asiye had been stayed silent against the systematic violence to not make her children’s education be affected. She had worked three different jobs for her children. Her children were successful in school. Her biggest wish was to see her children graduation.”

 

‘She was fighter in politics and also in house’

 

Stating that Asiye was laborer as well as she was fighter, Gülistan said that Asiye was attending to meeting for informing people in the process of election and she was tied to women’s struggle with faithfulness. Gülistan stated that Asiye as a daughter of a family, who had migrated from Bingöl, adopted fighter identity both in house and in politics and added “She was talking about her problems but we couldn’t guess that she would be killed. When she talked about her problems, we couldn’t help enough. I am so sorry.”

 

‘We will both chase Yılmaz and people, who make these news’

 

On the other side, Gülistan stated that in some newspapers, killing Asiye is announced as “love and jealousy’ murder and Gülistan reacted it by saying “Asiye’s children called us in the morning and they said ‘How did they defame my mother?’ ‘We will do what is necessary’. Her children were very upset for this situation. We won’t stop chasing this. We want make these people to be tried in the court.”