Seda Dudurkaeva

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.

Seda Dudurkaeva
Born	(1993-04-24) 24 April 1993 (age 32) Grozny, Chechnya
Nationality	Chechen
Citizenship	Russia
Movement	Islamic State
Spouse(s)	Hamzat Borchashvili ​ ​ (m. 2013; died 2014)​ , Abu Omar al-Shishani ​ ​ (m. 2014; died 2016)​
Partner	Nuradin Rustamov 2018 – 2019
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

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]