Posted on 08/02/2005 11:14:34 PM PDT by nickcarraway
BERLIN -- A Turkish author in Germany, herself a victim of the act, wants a ban on forced marriages and honor killings of Turkish women in the country.
Germany is considering such a move as honor killings escalate in Turkish communities, especially in Berlin, where six women have been slain in the past year.
Serap Cileli, whose husband deprived her of food, spoke out against the "crazy tolerance of society" in Germany, where 45 women have been stabbed, shot or drowned in so-called honor killings since 1996, Britain's Guardian newspaper reported.
Cileli, who moved to Germany when she was 8, says that journalists and politicians have turned a blind-eye to the issue.
The author of the best-selling book We Are Your Daughters, Not Your Honor and mother-of-two said: "Every woman who flees from home lives under the threat of an honor killing. I am not a unique case. The majority of Turks in Germany are molded in a patriarchal and traditional way. Even a silly rumor is enough to tarnish a man's reputation."
the 8th century...meets the 21st century.
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