Women in Turkey Forced to Commit Suicide

The muslim male is a wicked creature. In Turkey, muslim women are being forced by male members of their families to commit suicide so that these beasts can avoid going to prison for committing an "honor" killing.

This is the true face of islam in all its hideous, evil horror. And this is taking place in a country we are told is a “moderate” westernized muslim society. Like hell it is. Let us once and for all discard the absurd politically correct notion that there is any such thing as a moderate islam or that islam can remotely be compatible with western freedom and democracy. It cannot possibly be and I would hope that Europe does not allow Turkey membership in the EU. And certainly muslim immigration should cease.

Muslim women told: For family's sake, commit suicide
Honor killers avoid prison by forcing victims to take own lives
Posted: March 29, 2009
1:00 am Eastern



Turkey's crackdown on the practice of honor killing has resulted in unintended consequences – instead of being murdered by a close male relative for bringing dishonor to their families, Muslim women are being pressured to commit suicide.

And the numbers of "honor suicides" are soaring, reported the UK's Independent.

Despite a 2005 change in the nation's penal code requiring a mandatory life sentence for honor killers, the number of women killed by male relatives is at a record level – more than 200 a year, half of all murders committed in Turkey. But it is that change in the law that has given rise to the growing phenomenon of women taking their own lives. Prior to 2005, killers were able to receive reduced sentences by claiming provocation.

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Elif, 18, from Batman in southeast Turkey, was told by her father she must kill herself so he would not be sent to prison for murdering her after she refused an offer of an arranged marriage with an older man.

"I loved my father so much, I was ready to commit suicide for him even though I hadn't done anything wrong," she said. "But I just couldn't go through with it. I love life too much."

The young woman was forced to flee and go into hiding. Her uncles and other relatives have been hunting her for the past eight months, even conducting an armed raid of a women's shelter where she had been.

"I managed to escape," said Elif. "When I was at school, a few girls I knew were killed by their families in the name of honor – one of them for simply receiving a text message from a boy."

In her hometown of Batman – nicknamed "Suicide City" – 75 percent of all suicides are committed now by women.

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