Semiya Şimşek
Semiya Şimşek (born 1986 in Friedberg, Germany) is a German-Turkish writer, activist and social educational expert. Since 2012 she has lived in Salur, Turkey. She is married to Fatih Demirtas and a mother of two. Publicly known in Germany she became with her appearance and her public speech at the central memorial act of the government of Germany at the 23rd of February 2012 in the Concert Hall in Berlin for the victims of right wing [...] (here quoted by courtesy of the page of the Thueringer Allgemeine), where she coined the phrase "We all together - only that can be the solution." Thereafter she assisted like many other families of the ten victims at the trial in Munich where the assassination of her father and other nine people in Germany were attempted to put to justice between 2013 and 2018 (envisioned end of the trial). Her father was shot dead at his work place in Nuremberg by terrorists when Semiya was 14 years old. The only known motive of the assassins so far was hate against foreigners.
Semiya Şimşek's family was victim twice as after the death of the father police and media coverage accused them having been part of a criminal activity that finally had led to the assassination of Enver Şimşek on September 9, 2000. Semiya Şimşek in vain was waiting for an excuse of the police till today. The public excuse of Chancellor Angela Merkel with the families of the NSU-victims in 2012 remained a minor gesture.
Right-wing [...] has both its origin and its organizational base in right-wing-violence. Renewed, neutral investigation after 2012 led to a much elevated number of "745 cases of attempted and successful [...] affecting 849 victims with indications for a right-wing-motivation" in Germany to 2011 since 1990. 192 victims died thereof.
In 2013 Semiya Şimşek published an autobiography together with Peter Schwarz: "Schmerzliche Heimat", Berlin: Rowohlt 2013. ("Painful origin Germany and the [...] of my father"). A movie which is based on her book in 2016 was broadcast on April 4, 2016, in public german television channel ARD, "Die Opfer - Vergesst mich nicht" ("The victims - don't forget me").
Towards the end of the Munich trial it became obvious that in spite of the documented intention to bring light in what has happened to the victims of the Right-wing-[...]-serie to many governmental employed witnesses, secret service members ("Verfassungsschutz"), police men, justices and prosecutors limiting themselves to what they found appropriate to reveal have functioned in total similar to a newborn justice of Weimar republic that was infamous due to its blindness on the right eye, "that is for imposing much harsher sentences on left-wing than on right-wing political criminals." (compare Richard F. Wetzen, Crime and Criminal Justice in Modern Germany, 2014, Berghahn Books, p. 12.) The censorship by some wikipedia-referees ("Sichter") on the "Semiya-Simsek"-entry in german wikipedia is telling the same story. Claiming "formal" arguments the enhancement of the narrow entry with parts of her speech had been opposed and censored.