Seda Dudurkaeva
Seda Dudurkaeva | |
|---|---|
| Born | 24 April 1993 |
| Nationality | Chechen |
| Citizenship | Russia |
| Movement | Islamic State |
| Spouse(s) | Hamzat Borchashvili
(m. 2013; died 2014) |
| Children | Two boys |
| Parent(s) | Milana Dudurkaeva, Asu Dudurkayev |
| Criminal charge | Links to ISIS |
Wanted by | Interpol |
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. 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.
The marriage caused a scandal in Chechnya, where Dudurkaeva's father, Asu Dudurkaev, was a wealthy senior government official. 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.
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.
According to one report there were rumours, but no evidence, that al-Shishani had arranged the death of his suborfinate, Borchashvili, in order to wed Dudurkaeva.