Posted on 08/08/2004 5:13:19 PM PDT by UnklGene
TURKEY: Raped teen killed to restore honour -
Posted Fri, 30 Apr 2004
Ignoring the pleas of his 14-year-old daughter to spare her life, Mehmet Halitogullari pulled on a wire wrapped around her neck and strangled her supposedly to restore the family's honour after she was kidnapped and raped.
Nuran Halitogullari, buried on Thursday in a ceremony attended by women's rights advocates, is the latest victim of a long history of "honour killing" which the Turkish government is struggling to curb.
Newspapers said Halitogullari was abducted in Istanbul on her way back from a trip to the supermarket and raped over six days.
She was rescued by police and returned to her family.
The murder came to light this week but it was not clear when it took place.
In a confession, Mehmet Hatipogullari told police that he and other relatives allegedly took the girl to an aunt's home where he strangled her, ignoring her pleas and her cries, Sabah news service said.
"I decided to kill her because our honour was dirtied," Sabah quoted the father as saying. "I didn't listen to her pleas, I wrapped the wire around her neck and pulled at it until she died." He said he buried her body beneath a chicken coop, which upset his other children, and later buried her in a forest.
Sabah said Halitogullari also planned to kill his daughter's rapist.
On Wednesday, authorities charged two brothers with murder after they shot their sister in the head in her hospital bed, as she was recovering from an earlier attack by them. The 22-year-old woman mother was shot for having a child out of wedlock.
Last year, a pregnant woman who was reportedly stoned to death by her family after having an affair was buried in a pauper's grave after her family refused to bury her.
That's true, and not just among Islamic countries. Virginity is considered a matter of honor in some countries and committing suicide is considered more honorable than and more preferable to being raped.
Mehmet - the Turkish spelling of Muhammad.
If he was so honor-driven, you'd think he'd kill the perp first, and then if still compelled by his higher sensitivities to kill anyone else, take his own life next, for the shame of having not protected the victim, his daughter.
God in heaven!! What kind of vermin looks into the eyes of his 14 year-old daughter and strangles her to death??
This man must be charged with her murder and sent to prison for the rest of his life. We'll see how he likes the consequences of rescuing his "honor".
The ultimate debasement... killing your own children in the name of God. Woe, woe...
Where's CAIR on this? Waiting...
It wasn't in the name of God, it was in the name of his family honor, whatever that means, seeing as they have no family honor, what they are is cold blooded killers who view women as livestock. sick. sick. sick. selfish egotistical demonic hateful satanically driven. Islam the religion of the devil.
NOTHING so well exemplies the problem with Islam than this idiotic event.
Further proof that Islam is a murderous cult -- for lunatics..
How do you restore "honor" by killing the innocent victim?
It would seem to me, to be more logical to kill the freaking rapist...
Semper Fi
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