Our comrade Semra Basyigit was born on July 27, 1978 in Domanic, Kutahya Province. She went to Uludag University, studying in the medical documentation and secretarial faculty. She joined the revolutionary struggle in the middle of 1996. The 1996 Death Fast was one of the most influential events in this period.

For a while she was an active correspondent for the periodical Kurtulus (Liberation). She was imprisoned on February 3, 1998 and was held for a time in prison. After her imprisonment she resumed the struggle. She evaluated her imprisonment as follows: As long as the truth is being defended, some of us will be imprisoned. As it appears, it is now our turn. But it must be clear to everyone that they will silence us neither with imprisonment, nor torture, nor massacres. It is a glaringly obvious fact that there is no difference between being inside or outside prison. So there are people who are resisting, both inside the jails and outside them. People resisting for the sake of victory. If other comrades gave varying assessments of her, they all agreed on her respectful, temperate, strong, mature and modest character. She was one of our young women who grew up with the values of Anatolia and maintained these values. As part of our Front, she built up and strengthened these values along with the values of socialism. Before she herself went on the Death Fast, she said the following about her comrades on the Death Fast:

“You should see their simplicity, naturalness, beauty and fineness. These are our young women. They cause us to experience such great dignity and pride, can our people have a greater source of strength than them?”

And she herself was one of them who made this dignity and pride come alive.

The young women of Anatolia will take their strength from Semra and those like her who resist according to her example.