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[Oracle]

Channel 4 (Unreported World) is airing a documentary into the rising crisis of Honour Killings in Turkey, Friday 27th March, 7:30pm


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.

http://www.stophonourkillings.com/?name ... e&sid=3469

[paliometoxo]

honour killings trying to join eu....

[paliometoxo]

kurdish cousins get married?:SSS

[insan]

I admire ur efforts for giving a hand for those who struggle to stop honour killings. I'm sure u would like to join them or donate some money... Good luck, dear. Mafuture president of universe, heroine of women rights.

http://www.kwrw.org/donations.html

http://www.petitiononline.com/kurdish/petition.html

Honor killings, driven by the view that a family’s honor is paramount, are an ancient tradition associated with Kurdish regions of Iraq, Iran and Turkey as well as tribal areas in Pakistan and some Arab societies.

http://www.nohonor.org/?p=31




Kurdish Women Victims of ‘Honor Killings’ in First Half of 1387 (2008)

Women rights activists have said that according to this year’s data, the number of “honor killings” have increased.

The other day the Committee Against Honor-Related Violence announced that the number of murders in the first five months of this year stands at six. In this regard Parvin Zabihi, an advocate for women in the Kurdistan section of Iran, told radio Farda: “the figures announced by the committee are possibly less than the actual number because since yesterday [Sunday] we have received news about three more murder cases that will be announced once the details are known”. According to Ms. Zabihi, in one case a woman was thrown out of a moving truck, and in two other cases women burned themselves. Considering these, Ms. Zabihi said: “clearly, the data is higher”.
The latest cases published on ‘honor killings’ list two cases in
Sanandaj, three cases in Marivan and one case in Piranshahr. Amongst these, the murder of Fereshteh Nejati is the most talked about.



Ms. Nejati was an 18-year-old girl, who after two years of living with a man eighteen years her senior, returned to her father house. However, her father accused her of an unfounded adulterous relationship and slit her throat.

Women’s rights advocates in Kurdistan considered Ms. Nejati’s funeral procession a rare occurrence in Kurdistan, since against all dominant local customs, many women decided to participate in the funeral ceremonies. The women’s participation was greeted with support from men as they began calling slogans condemning discrimination based on sex.

According to Article 220 of the Islamic penal code “when a father or paternal grandfather kills a child, Ghesas (a religious term for punishment) cannot be conducted, and the perpetrator is only liable for financial restitution.”

Article 630 of the Islamic penal code states: “when a man observes his wife during an act of consensual sex with another man, he (the husband) can rightfully kill them both; and in case the wife was a non-consenting actor, then the husband can rightfully kill the man. The same is applicable to physical harms”.

According to legal practitioners, both articles in the penal code are ways to license killing, and both articles are cited by defendants in cases of ‘honor killings’ to escape the long arm of justice.

Ms. Zabihi pointed to another example and stated: “I know of a man who knocked his wife unconscious, set her on fire, and put a pillow over her mouth to asphyxiate and silence her. Of course the women died, but before her death she told the nurse what had happened. Considering such a horrible act the man in this case ended up paying just 40,000,000 Rial (4,300 USD) as restitution”. Amnesty International issued a statement last month that said: “the Islamic Republic discriminates and violates the rights of Iranian Kurds, especially Kurdish women”.

IHRV, 28.08.2008

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[insan]

http://www.kamilpasha.com/2008/08/05/st ... -killings/

Honor killings move to cities through migration
A report on honor killings released by the Prime Ministry Human Rights Directorate has shown that honor killings are most frequent in Central Anatolia and the Marmara and Aegean regions, which receive the bulk of Turkey’s westward internal migration.


According to the report, a total of 294 honor killings took place in the Marmara region between 2003 and 2007. This was followed by 219 incidents in Central Anatolia and 217 in the Aegean region.
Most of the perpetrators of these killings are individuals who migrated to from eastern and southeastern Anatolia, where a patriarchal social structure is dominant.

Ercan Tatlıdil, a sociologist from Aegean University, said people take their traditions and culture wherever they move.

Stressing that the values of the migrants’ original region and those of the area they migrate to generally clash, Tatlıdil said this can even lead to murders.

“The tendency toward violence is generally directed toward young people and women. These people are unable to resort to state institutions to resolve their conflicts. When there is a dispute, they prefer to ask for help from their relatives instead of going to the police. They have a tendency to take care of their own business. When they settle in a new region, they prefer places where their fellow townsmen have already settled. Because of this, they cannot adapt to the city’s structure and benefit from the opportunities it presents,” he said.

He stressed that honor killings, which are among the biggest problems in the East and Southeast, are carried to big cities through migration.

Tatlıdil suggested that migrants should be given social and economic assistance to help them adapt to city life. Hüseyin Keleş İstanbul



05 August 2008, Tuesday

[insan]

Some example of honour killings in Sweden:

Abbas Rezai (2005): A 20-year-old Iranian man, gets killed in Hogsby. The motive is supposedly that his girlfriend’s family, who comes from Afghanistan, could not accept their relationship. The trial found the girlfriend’s brother guilty and fined him four years in institutional youth welfare and banishment from Sweden for life. Her parents are free. The lawyer of the mother to the murdered man is convinced that they planned the killing and has the opinion that they also should be sentenced for the murder.

A Kurdish Wife (2003): A 28-year-old Kurdish man stabs his one-year-younger wife with 37 slashes in Strangnas. The man did not accept that his wife wanted to get a divorce. The trial found him guilty and fined him ten years in prison and banishment from Sweden for life.

Fadime Sahindal (2002): A 26-year-old Kurdish girl, was killed in Uppsala in the evening of the 21st January. Her father did not accept that she had a Swedish boyfriend and wanted to have Swedish life style. The trial found her father guilty and he got a life sentence. Two months before she was killed she held a speech in the Swedish Parliament about her life and how she was treated by her family, relatives and Swedish authorities.

Pela Atroshi (1999): She was shot to death in Dhouk in Iraqi Kurdistan. Her sister called the Swedish police and reported the murder. Two uncles got a life sentence for the murder. The father is still wanted by the authorities.

Umea (1996): A 15-year-old Iraqi girl in Umea was killed by her brother and cousin after a party. The motive was that she had a Swedish life style.

Palestinian Girl (1994): A Palestinian man in Vastmanland killed his 18-year-old daughter when she refused to marry the man the father had chosen for her.

Parvin Kaboli, Secretary of Organisation for Women’s Liberation


http://www.islam-watch.org/ExMuslims/Ho ... Europe.htm

[turkkan]

As if the poster gives a shit about these women. The practise in comparison to what it was 80 years ago has almost completely been eradicated nationwide. Although i dont doubt the figures presented in the original article if you looked at the extent of the problem even a few decades ago its obvious this tradition is near its end. What is happening now although confined to the kurds who have just immigrated from the far SE is definately the fault of successive governments in turkey who in exchange for political support from backward uneducated feudal land lords kept a blind eye to what has been happening there.

[Oracle]

It is precisely the type of attitudes exhibited by insan and turkkan which have led to the continuation of such a practice.

Insan attempts to sweep it under the carpet as a Kurdish problem, and so excuses the Turkish government ...

The Turkish government wants only what is "good" from the Kurds ... their land and territories. Subjugating the Kurds and taking away their self-determination, prevents them tackling this themselves!

So insan, it isn't just a Kurdish problem ... it's a Turkish problem whilst the Turks deny the Kurds the freedom to rule themselves!

Are all those killings in Istanbul "Kurdish" .. is that what the Turkish government would have you believe?

Again they pay lip-service to reforms demanded by EU ... they just allowed this to become even more sinister ... because wearing headscarves is a more important issue!

[denizaksulu]

Thank God we are not the same people as those that carry out honour killing. How primordial can one get. It is not a Kurdish issue alone. We know that. Why deny it. Bloody savages.

[Oracle]

Thank God we are not the same people as those that carry out honour killing. How primordial can one get. It is not a Kurdish issue alone. We know that. Why deny it. Bloody savages.

It's a human tragedy ... ... bullying taken to the worst extreme.

BTW the Channel 4 production is at 7:35 pm tonight.