Canan Deniz, a primary school teacher of 15 years, and her husband became unemployed when the educational institution they worked for was closed with a Decree-Law by the regime. The Deniz family, who could not find a job elsewhere, moved to their hometown of Denizli due to economic difficulties. Her husband, Mr Yilmaz Deniz, was a teacher in schools affiliated with the Hizmet Movement, and he was arrested. The arrest of Mr Deniz added the judicial processes to the economic difficulties they were already experiencing.
Mrs Deniz, the mother of 2 children, started to use heavy depression medications. Mrs Deniz visited her imprisoned husband with her children in Denizli Prison on 17 June 2019 and later went to her room after the interview and hanged herself with a scarf. The medical teams who came to the scene declared that Canan Deniz had died.