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Topic started on 22-11-2005 @ 08:04 PM by Hellmutt
Hundreds of Turkish women are murdered in "honour killings" each year. A UN report was released today and according to the report Turkish women are forced by their families to wed rapists. If they refuse to wed the rapist they will be murdered, or in other words "die for their families honour".



news.scotsman.com
• UN report says Turkish women forced by families to wed rapists
• Hundreds of Turkish women killed in 'honour killings' each year, says report
• Report comes as Turkish government pressed to reform to join EU


"When a girl is raped by a man, since she is no longer a virgin, it is usually believed that the best way to solve the problem is to get them married, especially if the man is not already married" - UN report


RAPE victims in Turkey can be forced by their own families to marry their rapists - or risk being killed in the name of family honour, according to a United Nations report released today. The report, by the United Nations Population Fund, is the first in-depth study in Turkey of the different motivations behind "honour-killings", where women and young girls are murdered by their relatives for allegedly bringing shame on the family. Human rights activists estimate that hundreds of Turkish women are murdered in such killings each year.

Apart from rape, the report defines other situations where a woman from such a community might be murdered.

One major concern highlighted by the report was the lack of shelters for women on the run from their families.


Please visit the link provided for the complete story.


Honour killings is not just a Turkish phenomena, it happens all over the world. Many women simply disappear, and if they are not reported missing by anyone they won´t get status as a "missing person". Some murders are camouflaged as "suicide". Many women are on the run in fear of getting killed by their own families. This practice of honour killings has to stop.

Related News Links:
Scotsman: Forced marriage & honour killings
Spiegel: The Murder of a Turkish Woman in Berlin
BBC News: 'Honour killing' father begins sentence
National Geographic News: Thousands of Women Killed for Family "Honor"

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[edit on 2005/11/22 by Hellmutt]


reply posted on 23-11-2005 @ 03:29 AM by Riwka
Originally posted by ImJaded

U meant the Middle East and the west ?


Not all Turkish people are Muslim, and by alll means I am not picking a fight or anything, I just didn't read that this was about Muslim women only, but Turkish Women.


Well, no.

From Helmutts source



The case has long since become a matter of public debate that extends well beyond the articles of criminal law. Germans want to know what's wrong with a country that has seen

an estimated 50 so-called honor killings in the past decade.

Why, people want to know, is Germany incapable of protecting its female citizens against violent attacks by Muslim husbands, fathers, or brothers?



The crime might be easier to digest if it had been an archaic anomaly, but five other Muslim women have been murdered in Berlin during the past four months by their husbands or partners for besmirching the family's Muslim honor. Two of them were stabbed to death in front of their young children, one was shot, one strangled and a fifth drowned. It seems hard to fathom, but in the middle of democratic Western Europe -- in Germany, a nation where pacifism is almost a universal mantra -- murderous macho patriotism not only exists but also appears to be thriving. It may even be Germany's liberalism -- and its post World War II fear of criticizing minority cultures -- that has encouraged ultra-religious families to settle here.




It seems to be that the view of women as property with no rights of their own is deeply rooted in Islamic culture
(I do NOT say there is anything in the Koran that permits or sanctions honor killings)


Originally posted by ImJaded

Who are we to tell them it is wrong ?



We? Humans. Womans rights are alwys also human rights. Who are we if we don't fight for human rights?

Countries that don't recognize domestic violence as a crime at all need to bring their penal codes up to international standards.



[edit on 23-11-2005 by Riwka]



reply posted on 23-11-2005 @ 08:36 AM by AceOfBase
Originally posted by ImJaded
U meant the Middle East and the west didn't U Grady ?
Not all Turkish people are Muslim, and by alll means I am not picking a fight or anything, I just didn't read that this was about Muslim women only, but Turkish Women. One does not necessarily mean the other.

Just wanted to point that out. Is that how alot of people read this ? Cause if so this is starting to scare me


This is Islamic, not middle Eatern.
It happens in the Islamic countries outside of the Middle East, like Pakistan and the North African countries.

BTW, have you ever looked at the population of Turkey?

Muslim 99.8% (mostly Sunni), other 0.2% (mostly Christians and Jews)
CIA fact book

When they talk about 'Turkish' women, it's a pretty safe bet that they are muslims.

An article above mentioned muslim immigrants in Germany doing 'Honor Killings' and they are not alone. It's also happening in places like Denmark.


Foul play suspected in "ethnic women´s" disappearance

Awareness of honour slayings and other crimes against young immigrant women was raised in September, when an 18-year-old Pakistani girl named Ghazala Abbas was murdered in broad daylight by her older brother a day after she married a young Afghani man, whom her family did not approve of.

Many of the girl's relatives have been arrested for ordering, planning, and assisting in her slaying in order to protect the family's honour.


Killed by their own damn family.
There is a major problem with Islam and there's no point in ignoring it.
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