The body of Ivana Hoffman, a German member of the Marxist Leninist Communist Party (MLKP) terrorist organization, was brought to Turkey yesterday after she was killed in Syria while fighting in Kobani.
Hoffman, 19, will be buried in Germany. She left to join the militants in Kobani who were engaged in a conflict with the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS).
Though many foreigners have reportedly joined the militants, composed of locals, members of the terrorist organizations PKK and MLKP as well as other armed groups, Hoffman is likely the first female foreigner to have been killed in the conflict, which broke out last year.
Hoffman's family received her body in Mardin, a Turkish province on the border, before an autopsy in the province of Diyarbakır. How she was killed remains unknown, but sources close to the terrorist organizations in Kobani reported she was with a group of female militants engaged in a battle against ISIS in Syria's Hasakeh province earlier this month. Earlier, a Briton and an Australian national also died while fighting for Kurdish militants in Hasakeh.
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