Disappeared August 2016 Body discovered 12 August 2016 Start date August 2016 | Occupation Sex Worker, Activist | |
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Born 1993 Şanlıurfa, Turkey | ||
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Hande Kader 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. In August 2016, she was reported missing by her flatmate Davut Dengiler when she failed to return home the following week. Her body was found raped, mutilated, and burnt by the roadside in the Zekeriyaköy up-market on August 12, 2016. Despite being badly mutilated, Kader's body was identified by prosthetics at the city morgue by Dengiler.
Kader was employed in the sex industry as a sex worker, and was last seen getting into a client's car. She was 23 years old at the time of her death. 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).
Following her death, there has been a public outcry and protests against the mistreatment of transgender people in Turkish society.
