Honor killing

Muslims commit 91 percent of honor killings worldwide. The Palestinian Authority gives pardons or suspended sentences for honor murders

The trial of a Kurdish man who tied one of his three wives to the back of a car and dragged her through the streets of a town in Lower Saxony has drawn attention to an outbreak of Muslim honor violence in Germany.

Four brothers have been arrested in the Turkish capital Ankara for killing their sister "because she was socializing with men." 

Özlem Aykutluğ, 35, was found shot dead in Ankara on Feb. 28 and homicide department police officers focused their investigation on her family in the eastern province of Kars. 

Five people were murdered per day across Turkey in 2016, according to a report from the Police Department and the Gendarmerie Command.

Firearms were used the most in the 1,948 murders committed in the country in 2016, the report said.
Most of the murders were committed due to conflicts over money or honor killings, according to official figures. 

It was the 1980s when a strange girl from the Black Sea appeared in my grandmother's home in Ankara. S., a 15-year-old village girl with a lopsided face, looked as if she could run away any moment; she never talked. She was kidnapped and raped by a village boy, we, the kids, were told... The boy was in love with S.' sister and wanted to kidnap her, but in the dark, he mistook S.

There were at least 1,500 homicide victims in 2015 across Turkey in areas under surveillance by the police and where 86 percent of the country's population lives, police records have shown.

The figures indicated there was an increase of more than 2 percent over the homicide rate in 2014, while the biggest increase was in domestic violence-related femicides.  

Some 1,539 people, including 112 children, were injured by Turkey's security forces at protests in 2014, while 11,262 people were detained, including 241 refugees, a recent report has revealed.

Turkey's official policies and rhetoric not only fail to stop women murders, they indirectly encourage the killings by acquitting the perpetrators, a representative of a women's NGO claims.

Turkey?s official policies and rhetoric not only fail to stop women murders, they indirectly encourage the killings by acquitting the perpetrators, a representative of a women?s NGO claims. ?I would prefer officials stop talking about women,? says Gülsüm Kav, from the ?We Will Stop Women Murders?

The Radio and Television High Board (RTÜK) must be disbanded, if not radically overhauled, and stripped of its political manipulation at the hands of the majority political party, which is the government.