Fadime Şahindal (2 April 1975, in Elbistan – 21 January 2002, in Uppsala) was a Kurdish immigrant who moved to Sweden from Turkey at the age of seven. She was murdered by her father, Rahmi, in January 2002 in an honour killing. Life. Fadime Şahindal was a talented pupil but her parents hid from her the university acceptance letter. She only found out by chance that she had been accepted for a course in social studies at Mid Sweden University. She was opposed to her family's insistence on arranging her marriage to a male cousin who lived in their Kurdish native village in Turkey.
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Fadime Şahindal (2 April 1975, in Elbistan – 21 January 2002, in Uppsala) was a Kurdish immigrant who moved to Sweden from Turkey at the age of seven. She was murdered by her father, Rahmi, in January 2002 in an honour killing. Life. Fadime Şahindal was a talented pupil but her parents hid from her the university acceptance letter. She only found out by chance that she had been accepted for a course in social studies at Mid Sweden University. She was opposed to her family's insistence on arranging her marriage to a male cousin who lived in their Kurdish native village in Turkey.
