(WNN) Denver, Colorado, U.S., AMERICAS: She was living in Ankara, Turkey and working as a news correspondent in the northern Iraqi region of conflict when she lost her life. Perhaps she would say she was doing what she love to do. But the death of Kurdish woman journalist Deniz Fırat is tragic regardless of her quest to ‘get the story’.
Known by her family and close friends as Leyla Yıldızhan, Firat was working for the Firat News Agency (FNA) as a correspondent covering recent conflict in the region, as well as life in the Makhmour refugee camp, when an armed militia attack by extremist insurgents known as the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) killed her. During the attack she died quickly from a piece of shrapnel that had entered her heart.
It is uncertain whether Firat had a chance to say anything to colleagues who were there with her after she was mortally injured.
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