more violence against women

last time i wrote about an issue like this, which coincidentially also happened in turkey, i got a comment asking me to stop picking on turkey. i'm NOT picking on turkey. i am shouting out AGAINST VIOLENCE ON WOMEN in ANY and ALL countries. i certainly AM speaking against a culture which condones such things as honor killings of women. worldwide, this MUST stop now and i'll never remain quiet on the subject.

How to Avoid Honor Killing in Turkey? Honor Suicide

BATMAN, Turkey (July 16) -- For Derya, a waiflike girl of 17, the order to kill herself came from an uncle and was delivered in a text message to her cellphone. “You have blackened our name,” it read. “Kill yourself and clean our shame or we will kill you first.”
Derya said her crime was to fall for a boy she had met at school last spring. She knew the risks: her aunt had been killed by her grandfather for seeing a boy. But after being cloistered and veiled for most of her life, she said, she felt free for the first time and wanted to express her independence.
When news of the love affair spread to her family, she said, her mother warned her that her father would kill her. But she refused to listen. Then came the threatening text messages, sent by her brothers and uncles, sometimes 15 a day. Derya said they were the equivalent of a death sentence............