Posted on 12/17/2009 9:24:32 PM PST by myknowledge
A 15-year-old British girl murdered by her father in so-called honour killing was reportedly pregnant at the time of her death.
Tulay Goren disappeared in January 1999, shortly after her father told his eight-year-old son to kiss his sister goodbye as he would never see her again. Her body was never found.
Mehmet Goren, 49, was yesterday handed a life sentence for killing his daughter because of her relationship with an older man who belonged to a different branch of Islam.
As detectives admitted police had ignored “tell-tale signs” before the murder, an old school friend of Tulay’s told the BBC the teenager had admitted to being pregnant.
“One day she came in and said, ‘I’m pregnant and I’m going to run away,’ but I didn’t know if she was serious or not,” Nadia Mahmood recalled.
“I thought it was just one of those things you say.”
Tulay’s mother Hanim, who had suffered three decades of abuse at her husband’s hands, was among those who gave evidence against Goren, weeping and screaming in the witness box and demanding he reveal where the body was so she could bury it.
One of his other daughters, Nuray Guler, also testified against him, screaming: "Even animals would not do what you have done."
Prosecution lawyer Jonathan Laidlaw told the court that the Goren case was a "terrible reminder of what honour-based crime can involve" and a "wake-up call" to the existence of so-called "honour killings" in Britain.
Police had become involved with the family in the weeks before the murder, when Goren beat up his daughter's boyfriend, Halil Unal, then complained about their relationship to officers and demanded she take a virginity test.
Tulay ran away and told police her father had beaten her and she would rather go into care than return home, but her mother persuaded her to go back.
Goren attacked his daughter's boyfriend for a second time just 13 days after Tulay went missing, this time with a hatchet, and it was while in hospital that Unal reported his girlfriend missing.
But police failed to put two and two together and it was two months before they began to suspect Tulay had been murdered. They submitted a file to prosecutors in 2000 but were told there was not enough evidence for charges.
Goren was finally arrested in 2008, along with his two brothers, after a review.
Both his brothers were cleared of wrongdoing in court Thursday.
An ethnic Kurd from Elbistan in Turkey, Goren had moved to Britain claiming asylum in 1996. He was jailed in 2000 for his hatchet attack on Unal but escaped deportation because his family all lived in Britain.
The 49-year-old admitted hitting his daughter and wife but denied murder, saying he still believed Tulay was alive and "will turn up one day".
15 year old Turay Goren was 'honor-killed' by her father in January 1999, all because she was pregnant with the child of an older guy who was a Shiite.
Mehmet Goren
There is nothing honorable about honor killings. I mean, why would Mehmet Goren kill his pregnant daughter Turay? The virus of Islam takes root.
It took the “system” 8 years(?!) to get around to arresting him. UK had better wake up fast, if it’s not too late.
These people revere the 8th Century. The bones and flesh of people of the 8th Century are dust. Send these murderers back to the 8th Century. Dust unto dust!
Those poor children. May they rest in peace.
Interesting, the murderer did not go after the statutory rapist of his daughter.
I mean, I guess he beat him up, but he didn’t kill him.
Beating a woman and a child doesn't cut it where I come from. This guy needs to get a royal ass kicking to see what it feels like. We don't need muslims in this country. I don't know why England tolerates them.
Hey, they're ordinary folks just like us, except different in some minor cultural manners and mores. Former President Bush told us as much, and 'bama agrees. What's WRONG WITH YOU? {sarcasm OFF!}
England tolerates them for the same reason we tolerant illegal immigration: they are the work force neither Western culture will produce naturally.
I have news for you asshole. I'm fifty six years old. I go out into the heat and cold and earn a living. Most illegals learn to game the system and claim aggrieved status at my expense. Go peddle your BS somewhere else.
Go sleep it off; you kiss your mother with that mouth?
May God bless her soul. She is beautiful.
Because islam doesn't work. They deny Christ.
Is that the best you can do? Logic and reason is not your best suit. But I'm certain you are liberal so it stands to reason.
Yes, I’m from DU. Read my posts. You in no way addressed my point that the falling birth rate in the West is the cause for the immigration from the 3rd world. You probably don’t even understand what the hell I’m talking about. In US cities, these immigrants are the only thing keeping them from becoming ghost towns (hence our wonderful “sanctuary city” policies).
Just think: Those islamists charged with honor killings today will likely get off since Britain will be islamic by the time they otherwise would have been convicted.
I have read what you posted here. Now go pester someone else.
Granted, it’s our fault for ...
1) worshiping money over Jesus
2) voting in corrupt politicians
But this “declining birthrate” makes the problem sound more endemic to whiteness than I care to let you slide with amigo.
If citizens are not having children, it’s probably because of the following truths.
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Have a nice day.
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“José Illegal” also works in construction, has “NO” Social Security Number, and gets paid $15.00 cash “under the table”.
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Joe Legal makes too much money is not eligible for Food Stamps or welfare.
Joe Legal pays for food. $1,000.00 per month or $12,000.00 per year.
Joe Legal now has $ 7,231.00.
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José Illegal still has $31,200.00.
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José Illegal has nights and weekends off to enjoy with his family.
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Joe Legal and José Illegal both enjoy the same Police and Fire Services, but Joe paid for them and José did not pay.
islam is a disease! it must be eliminated!
Nonsense. Half of them are on welfare.
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