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Record number of honour killings in Turkey
by Scott Gilbreath ~ March 23rd, 2009
This coming Friday, 27 March, British television series Unreported World will present a report about honour crime in Turkey.
Unreported World travels to Turkey to investigate honour killings, which have now reached record levels, with more than 200 girls and women killed in the past year alone. And in a chilling new development, the programme highlights how a new law outlawing honour killings, passed as part of the Government’s attempts to join the EU, may have led to a huge increase in girls being forced to commit suicide instead.
The news team travels to villages in eastern and south-eastern Turkey where honour killing is an accepted part of local culture. One might think that such crimes are rare in cosmopolitan Istanbul. One would be wrong.
Ending up in Istanbul, the team finds that even the most modernised city in Turkey hasn’t escaped the tradition. According to a government report, it now has one of the highest levels of honour killings in the country, with one happening every week. The Government has condemned honour killings and launched a commission with the aim of reducing them. Yet, in the three weeks the Unreported World team is in the country, they see twelve cases reported in the press as the murders continue unabated.
h/t: International Campaign Against Honour Killings
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March 25th, 2009 at 11:36 AM
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