Seda Dudurkaeva
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Seda Dudurkaeva | |
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| Born | 24 April 1993 |
| Citizenship | Russia |
| Movement |  Islamic State |
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| Children | Two boys |
| Parent(s) | Milana Dudurkaeva, Asu Dudurkayev |
| Criminal charge | Links to ISIS |
Wanted by | InterpolMinistry of Internal Affairs (Russia) |
Date apprehended | 20 July 2018 |
| Imprisoned at | Turkey |
Seda Dudurkaeva (born 24 April 1993) is a Chechen woman and a Russian citizen. Famous in her native Chechnya for her beauty, Dudurkaeva travelled to Syria and married in succession two Islamic State militants both of whom were killed in the war.[1] She was later arrested in Turkey over her connections to ISIS.
Around August 2013 Dudurkaeva married Hamzat Borchashvili, a rank and file ISIS fighter, who in Syria went by the name Abu Abdullah.[1]
The marriage caused a scandal in Chechnya, where Dudurkaeva's father, Asu Dudurkaev, was a wealthy senior government official.[1] Ramzan Kadyrov, head of the Chechen government, had declared a fight against Wahhabist influence there, and sacked Dudurkaev. Kadyrov demanded that Dudurkaeva return to Chechnya, but she refused.[1]
Borchashvili was killed in 2014, and Dudurkaeva then married prominent Georgian-Chechen Islamic State commander, Abu Omar al-Shishani. She reportedly bore al-Shishani two children.[2]
According to one report there were rumours, but no evidence, that al-Shishani had arranged the death of his subordinate, Borchashvili, in order to wed Dudurkaeva.[3]