Since Turkey has cracked down on “honour killings” - where Muslim brothers or fathers kill their errant womenfolk for dishonourable practices like not marrying their rapists - there has been an upsurge in “suicides”.
Think this is a joke? Think again…From the Times Online
ZULFINAN BAYCINAR died from a bullet in her back. Her husband’s family went into mourning for the 27-year-old’s “tragic suicide”. She was very happy, they said, they can’t imagine what got into her.But now Baycinar’s husband is on trial for murder. Prosecutors say she was killed because she dared to oppose against her husband’s wish to take a second wife, refusing to bow to tradition and know her place.
…One brazen case was that of Guldunya Toren, who was killed in an Istanbul hospital two years ago by her brothers for having a baby after being raped. She had refused to marry her rapist, run away, gone to police several times and been shot once already in the streets of Istanbul, before her brothers tracked her to hospital.
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