Evin Salgut Şahin was born in 1979 in the village Zengok (Yürecik) in Muş Province, Kurdish region in Turkey. She studied the primary school in her village, but the family with two children had to move to the city of Muş after that their home had been burned by the Turkish army in 1993. The life in Kurdistan region was very difficult, because of the state of emergency in 1990s and soon after the family had to move again, this time to the west coast of Turkey, in Aydin. 