NEWS: Women Forced To Marry Rapists Or Die, page 2

I am guessing you would need some real info on the subject so;

its unfortunately a fact that these honour killings are practiced in the south-eastern parts of the TR, which she has borders with iran, iraq and syria, and is also carried to other locations with people who integrally migrate.

however this is not a widespread thing as it is thought to be in this thread. the main reason for this is again education, these southeastern parts are mostly formed by clans or native tribes, people there generally belong to one or another, each village or town has its own clan and these clans are somewhat smaller examples of feudal governments in themselves which means, they have this agha ( lord or overlord ) which owns the land and is the head of the clan, head of all the people living in his land. these clans have workers, its own security forces (armed thugs with ak-47s, snipers, anything you can get in blackmarket), and these have their own council formed of the village elders etc. all the vilaggers work in the fields, or other areas (including some shadowy bussinesses) and they get their pay from the aghha, as how agha sees it fit, since the word of the agha in these clans are rule and like if he says die the villager respects it and dies. it is a totally twisted and corrupt circle they formed and these are closed to outside , and law couldnt do anything significant about it, for instance agha or the council decides and needs someone dead,(this can be a member of that clan or another, a more popular figure a writer, a politician, a bussinessman etc.) then this desicion is executed by the pawns of the clan, and when they do it they mostly willingly deliver themselves and testify that they did it by their personal desicion and they get prisoned and the actual criminals wo gave the orders lay in their nests. simply a primitive form of mafia. this is how corrupt it is, the mentality I suppose here is, the agha cared for you your family and supplied you with evreything you need to this date and when he asks you of something in return you should do it without question. plus these clans are frigging rich, you wont believe it the agha is actually owns a ferrari and a heli, mostly because of the weapon smuggling and drug production and traficking.

also these clans are really powerful actually the head of one of these clans was the chosen deputy of his area (naturally) and was in an accident in a luxurious car with, a highrank police official, a former beauty queen, and a militant which later found out to have links with the intel agency and a trunk full of weapons including an illegal sniper-riffle. search for "susurluk incident" for more info. just this event which exposed the mafia-police-politician relations in a car-accident caused many protests for years to come, one of these protests which was quite nice, named "one minue of darkness for everlasting enlightenment", where all the people would turn of their house lights for one minute at 9:00 pm to 9:01 pm everyday, for to authorities to solve and bring clarity to the events yet the investigations somehow got dissolved with empty promises from the authorities.(they simply cant touch "the deep state" even if they wanted to). ok this branched to an off topic subject, back to the subject.

these honour killings are practiced by these clans, which are current in the southeastern regions of the TR, it is not just honour killings there is also the blood feuds where the families would hunt eachother for generations, one would kill a member of the other family and in return the other family would kill a member from this family so on so forth. the sickness here is the way they are raised, they are raised with the ideas these are the normal things and deviations are not acceptable, the key here is education, for instance recently there was a campaign for to convince the parents of the girls mostly in southern regions to send their daughters to school which included a dozens of public figures in tv ads local concerts and aids, because in those regions the girls were not sent to school because they see no point to that, Im sure you get the degree of ignorance in those areas. Im telling again the key is education and the authorities should invest more in those regions, which are mostly forgotten in previous decades in terms of official service. and another shameful thing is the law was categorising honour killings and plain murder in different categories and the honour killings would take slightly less punishment than the other. thanks to EU reforms this was changed.

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

on paper it is true, the religion status field on ID s are filled as Muslim as default, and honestly nobody gives a poo about it. from that 99.8% of "Muslims" if we ask the questions:

"How many of the TR citizens actually evr been in to a mosque once in their life times?"
%25 - %45

"How many of the TR citizens actually visit mosques frequently or in daily basis?"

%5 - %20MAX

you know the term "being a churchgoer" well the people in TR are not much mosquegoers as the islamophobia depicts it.

its again wrong to blame only islam about this, what do those regions, which this honour killings and blood feuds are practiced have in common? islam right? it is not only that, there is the geopgraphical factor and the cultures are not only affected by religions or governments but also geography, this clans are not the inventions of today they come from way past, and existed to this date, possibly the rules may be created for survival and benefit in their creation times, but today it is just twisted and sick. you will see these clans or native tribes in SE border TR, iran, iraq, syria, india pakistan etc. all share a geography and have traditions which come from thousand years past. what will break this chain is education or to counter the raising methods of the children in those regions with modern education rather than dogmas which only benefits the "agha" in functionality. by the way Im not pro-islam, Im anti-religion yet the ignorance, bias and racism I see around forces me to be the sound of common sense in this particular subject. In another context, which do not include racism and islamophobia, I would generally be the one to bash muslims or christians, ironic.