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17. Addendum: In May 2017, SDF/YPG found Murats passport during the Tabqa offensive (some people were pushing this news back then as they thought he had been killed recently, when he had been actually dead for almost two years then).https://twitter.com/bjoernstritzel/status/866946257260072965 …

*herself, dammit.

16. Mine and Yassin managed to escape with the help of FSA fighters in autumn 2016. A few days later, she crossed into Turkey, where she was later convicted to 6.5 years in prison. She appealed against the sentence and remained free, until she returned to Germany now.

14. Mine K. eventually married an older and wealthy Iraqi with whom they lived for a few weeks. She then planned to leave, got divorced and moved to Raqqa, seeking help from another German woman she knew from Germany.

12. She struggled with the life as a widow, which is much harder due to ISIS' regulations against women. When she visited another woman whom she knew from Germany, they got into a louder argument, causing two ISIS security guys to enter the apartment and slapping her son Yassin.

10. After entering the caliphate, they were brought to Mosul and separated: Murat got basic training and learned the correct Aqidah, while Mine had to stay in a women's shelter for three months, where she felt uncomfortable among the "nationalist and arrogant" Chechens.

9. Murat D. was on a break from Jihad in Turkey when they "married" via Skype. In February 2015, Mine and Yassin travelled to Turkey and stayed there with Murat for six weeks. They then went on a 17-hour bus trip to Antep, stayed one night and crossed the border to Syria at Rai.

7. Several women and girls from the Salafi scene asked her for help and Mine K. gave them Nasiha/advice, though she claims that she never "recruited" anyone for ISIS, though some ISIS women I spoke to would disagree.

5. When I asked her about Bakunin's "God and the State", she laughed and said that nowadays she can "refute it now from an Islamic perspective." She became more religious after her son Yassin was born, whose father she left a year later.

4. During the early 1990s, Mine K. studied political science in Bonn. She was active in leftwing and anarchist circles, took part in demonstrations and travelled to Eskişehir to connect with Turkish leftwing student groups.

3. With her was her son Yassin (12, name changed), whom she took with her into the caliphate. When I asked why she's not wearing a Niqab, she answered that she was afraid of the reactions of the secular people of Eskişehir, whom she condemned as "racist."

2. We met in Eskişehir, where Mine K. lived in her parent's house after fleeing from ISIS. With her blue Khimar, she stood out in the secular stronghold of Eskişehir, where you rarely see women in Hijab, but many liberal and leftwing students.