Sara

Sara is the ongoing series of Sakine Cansız’s memoirs, translated into English.

Sakine Cansız was a Kurdish revolutionary, who was a leading member of the PKK, present at its first congress of 1978. She was imprisoned between 1980 and 1991 for her membership of the PKK. A close associate of Abdullah Ocalan, she was murdered in Paris in 2013.

There are currently two volumes available in English:

  1. Sara: My Whole Life was a Struggle (available to buy here)
  2. Sara: Prison Memoir of a Kurdish Revolutionary (available to buy here)