Suzan Zengin

Suzan Zengin (1959 – 12 October 2011) was a Turkish journalist, translator and human rights activist. She was detained on accusation of membership in an illegal organization for almost two years.

Early years Suzan Zengin was born as one of the six children of a family from Sivas in 1959. At the age of ten, she went to Germany, where she lived 18 years. During her education there, she was interested in the problems of immigrants.