Nene Hatun, a Brave Woman who Avenged her Brother's Death

She was a folk heroine of Turkey. Before her death (after the event) she said about her bravery and the event where she avenged her brothers death that:

I don't know any Turkish, but I think this monument
to her says about the event and that it took place in 1877-8 and that
she eventually died in 1955 (aged late 90s)

I did what was required. Today, if necessary, I would do the same!

Or something like that translated into English.
The story of her bravery is when her brother died after returning from the fighting against the capture of Fort Aziziye by the Russians, she vowed to avenge his death. The before attack that her brother had been involved in was and unsuccessful and the city had now been captured by the Russians. She was determined to carry out her previous vow and left her children, and took her dead brother's gun and a hatchet fought against the Russians, joining the weak attack that was lead by mostly civilian women and elderly men with only minor subsequent equipment. She displayed such bravery that she was known in Turkey and as a symbol of it. She was found after the battle ended unconscious and bloody holding her hatchet.

The picture on the right is a statue of her. I don't know what is on her back, maybe it is a child. If it is, why does she have a child on her back? Isn't she supposed to be in war? Is the moral message of this statue supposed to be that children make great shields? I don't think so.

Sources:
English Wikipedia and Russian Wikipedia