{"id":3833,"date":"2010-02-09T13:38:26","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T11:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=3833"},"modified":"2010-02-09T13:38:26","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T11:38:26","slug":"honour-killing-in-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/honour-killing-in-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Honour killing in Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3834\" title=\"girl buried alive\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/girl-buried-alive.jpg\" alt=\"girl buried alive\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/girl-buried-alive.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/girl-buried-alive-220x220.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>The discovery of the body of a 16 year old girl buried alive in the South Eastern province of Turkey has started new debates of honour killings in the country.<\/h1>\n<h2>The body of the girl was found in a 2 metre hole dug under a chicken pen after an informant told the police of the gruesome killing which has started broad outcry of honour killing in Turkey.<\/h2>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding: 0px;\">It is said that the girl of only 16 years old was put into the hole by members of her own family after a council meeting found her guilty of merely speaking with boys and have a relationships with some.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding: 0px;\">It has been reported that the father of the teenager was unhappy with his daughter, 1 of 9 children, because she had to many male friends.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding: 0px;\">It was claimed that the father had beaten the child in many occasions though there were no\u00a0bruising when the body was found, the\u00a0post-mortem\u00a0found there was a large amount of soil in her stomach and lungs indicating she was still alive when buried.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding: 0px;\">The girl who was identified as MM, was found in the hole in a sitting position with her hands tied to stop her from escaping. Her family had reported her as missing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding: 0px;\">Her father and grandfather are said to have been arrested and held in custody pending trial. It is unclear whether they have been charged. The girl&#8217;s mother was arrested but was later released.<\/p>\n<h2>It is thought that many honour killings such as this occur in Turkey,\u00a0in particularly the Southern Eastern regions of the country in uneducated\u00a0\u00a0families and\u00a0villagers.<\/h2>\n<h2>The official figures released for 2009 showed that\u00a0200 such killings take place each year, accounting for around half of all murders in Turkey.<\/h2>\n<h2>There is also concern that many\u00a0similar\u00a0incidents do not get reported and the official figure may be much higher.<\/h2>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 10)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Girl Buried Alive Beacuase She spoe with Boys: The discovery of the body of a 16 year old girl buried alive in the South Eastern province of Turkey has started new debates of honour killings in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,118,194,14],"tags":[4899,4903,4898],"class_list":["post-3833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-hot","category-turkey-general","category-world","tag-girl-buried-alive","tag-girl-buried-alive-honour-killing","tag-honour-killing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}