She began studying at the Faculty of Education of Dicle University in 1978 but was arrested in 1980 and was imprisoned in the Diyarbakir Prison for two years.
Comezou os seus estudos na facultade de Educación da Universidade de Dice en 1978, pero foi detida en 1980 e encarceada na prisión de Diyarbakir por dous anos.