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Hevrin Khalaf was born in 1983 in the city of Al-Malikiyah (Dayirk) in northeastern Syria and belonged to Hasaka Governorate. She completed her primary, preparatory and secondary education in Al-Malikiyah city, then she moved to Aleppo to study agricultural engineering, where she graduated in 2009.

After the beginning of the war in Syria in 2011, Khalaf intensified her political activities and worked for several NGOs before becoming the head of the Economic Council in the city of Qamishli.

In 2014, following the announcement of the establishment of the Kurdish autonomous administration of Rojava, she became deputy to the Energy Commission and then head of the Economic Commission for Kurdish-controlled areas in Syria.

In March 2018, Khalaf was elected secretary-general of the Future Syria Party, which is close to the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).

According to Kurdish media, Hevrin believed in Syria's unity and that the solution in the country is political and would not be achieved through fighting. US activists have expressed outrage over Khalaf's death. A US State Department spokesman told Reuters on Sunday that Washington is looking into reports of the deaths.

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advocate on behalf of women and other minorities, such as christians, During an Oct. 5 press conference in the Syrian city of Qamishlo just days before her death, Khalaf criticized Turkey, saying its attempts “to occupy this land in order to defend the Turkish people don’t adjust to reality,” since the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) had already liberated northeast Syria from terrorist groups.

“We - all the political forces - reject these threats, especially because they impede our campaign to create a solution for the Syrian crisis,” she said, adding that because of this, “the international community should support the people living on Syrian land to keep the security and not allow the Turkish forces to occupy Syrian land.”

A Turkish newspaper, Yeni Safak, trumpeted her killing as a "successful operation" against a politician affiliated with the "terrorist" People's Democratic Union, the Kurdish political party that runs northeast Syria. The newspaper said she had been "neutralized" in the operation, and described her death as a big setback for the group.

Turkey denies getting that far into syria, but video footage shows syrian national army soldiers doing the killing

wanted to end the crisis in Syria through dialogue, UN Human Rights office said on Tuesday that it is investigating the killings, and that Turkey could be held responsible for war crimes by fighters under its direction.