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Ali had 20,000 subscribers on YouTube and had been living in Istanbul while documenting life alongside her Syrian fiance, a real estate investor. She had moved to Turkey in 2017 to study but enjoyed her life there and had been living in Istanbul prior to her death.

Maan of the interior ministry said she had been on a visit to Iraq and that the day before her death, local police had to intervene in a heated dispute she had with her father.

After her death, women's rights groups and residents condemned the "honor killing" and decried violence against women in Iraq and called for legislative reforms. They argued for the need to impose harsher punishments on those who violate laws against gender-based violence.