Posted on 02/04/2010 7:10:51 AM PST by marthemaria
ANKARA - A 16-year-old girl was buried alive by relatives in southeast Turkey in a gruesome honour killing just because she reportedly befriended boys, the Anatolia news agency reported Thursday.
Acting on a tip-off, police discovered Medine Memi's body in a sitting position with her hands tied, in a two-metre-deep hole in a chicken pen outside her house in Kahta town, Adiyaman province, 40 days after she went missing, the agency said.
A subsequent post mortem revealed that she had a significant amount of soil in her lungs and stomach, meaning that she was buried alive, foresic experts told the agency.
"The autopsy result is blood-curdling. According to our findings, the girl -- who had no bruises on her body and no sign of narcotics or poison in her blood -- was alive and fully conscious when she was buried," one anonymous expert said.
Medine's father and grandfather have been formally arrested and jailed pending trial over her killing, the agency said.
The father is reported to have said in his testimony that the family was unhappy she had male friends.
In honour killings, most prevalent in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast, a so-called family council names a member to murder a female relative considered to have sullied the family honour, usually by engaging in an extra-marital affair.
But the practice has gone so far as to kill rape victims or women who simply talked to strange men.
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Doesn’t this go against all of the most nobel characteristics of human nature and instinct? It’s like all the good characteristics are effectively nutralized by the evil.
Pure evil.
Unimaginable. These people are like those mutants in the movie I AM LEGEND...literally.
and then practice your golf swing.
And these are the ‘moderates’.......
Apparently in Turkey, and in this case, it's the Kurds who do this.
Even ANIMALS protect their young (both male and female).
MALE animals will fight and kill to protect the females.
These creatures who kill their own female family members are so far devolved, I almost could believe in negative evolution (devolution) just to try to wrap my head around it.
Prayers for this little girl, and all the other little girls around the world suffering in this life.
Sweet Jesus, come soon, it looks like we need you now more than ever.
Not exactly...but it sounds good.
Male lions actively hunt down cubs, and kill them.
Same with polar bears.
There are other examples.....
The Islamic version of "grounded for life."
Beyond barbaric.
Sure, some do.
Penguins don’t.
Dolphins don’t.
Whales don’t.
Monkeys, chimps, elephants, rhinos, and thousands of others don’t.
Even ANIMALS protect their young (both male and female).
And actually to correct you again....many male chimps indeed kill other baby chimps.
FWIW-
That’s because they are.
It really is that simple.
Bury the perps alive.
Thanks or posting.
Female genital mutilation is also widespread among Kurds.
The only way to change them is to elevate their living standards and get them educated, and we’re working on it but it’s difficult work and it takes a long time.
You can help by pressing the US government to expell this dude: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fethullah_G%C3%BClen
Here’s a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbkBvMR6dsw
Oh, but the US uses this guy to manipulate the Turkish government... This guy who calls the vatican a snake hole. This guy who favors sharia law in Turkey, and to whose sect the Turkish president and prime minister belong to. All thanks to ?? You. The guy has lived in the USA since 1998 and was tried in absentia in Turkey for plotting to overthrow the system. Do we have extradition treaties between the US and Turkey? Does the US aid and abet this criminal wahabbist? Wake up folks! Wake up. You’re supposed to be in charge here.
Really? Then please explain the most virulent, hate filled, mysoginistic bunch of mohammedans, the Saudis.
They're educated and have very high living standards.
I say the best way to change them is to kill them and stamp islam from the face of the Earth forever.
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Gutless freaks. The west will never even come close to an understanding of their ways.
Do you support Sharia Law?
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