• 23 year old Rukiye Küçükbirer was killed by her brother returning from military service because it was alleged that she had a relationship with her brother-in-law.

• Waterpolo teacher Müjgan Albayrak, divorced from her husband, was shot by her brother whilst she was dining with her boyfriend.

• Hülya Yakar was killed by her 11 year old son because she went out a lot.

• Cezvet Murat killed two of his sisters, Ayten Murat and Gülten Söylemez, because they came home late and he decided that they were prostitutes.

• Pregnant Ayse Tarhan was stabbed to death by her husband Behman Tarhan because he suspected that she was having an affair. After killing her he separated her flesh from her bones and then buried in the stove.

• 28 year old Salih Esmer killed his sister Semra Esmer for dating with men and he also killed his mother for not educating his sister enough.

• Abdullah Karadeve cut his pregnant wife’s throat with a knife because he only suspected that she was having an affair. The couple had 7 children together.

• Senel Habesoglu was killed by her ex-husband because she divorced him.

• Gönül Aslan was thrown to the river Firat by her parents and her husband because she left her husband whom she was forced to marry to be with her boyfriend. Later on she left her boyfriend as well and went to her parents house. After she was thrown to the river she managed to swim and survive and now the police are hiding her.

• Sevda Gök was stabbed to death by her adolescent cousin, assisted by her brothers in the middle of the market arena after Friday prayers. There were no witnesses to be found even though everbody in the mosque was coming out of the building.

• Sibel yildiz (25 years old), mother of 2, supposedly committed suicide. She was forced to live with her ex-husband even though she divorced him because he abused her. Sevki yildiz - ex-husband- is said to be a suspect in killing her by throwing her out of the window on the 13^th floor of their apartment building. She had bruises all over her body.

• In Denizli, Ümit Sahan (21 years old) tried to commit suicide and was saved. She left her 3 month marriage home and went back to her parent’s house because her husband was heavily beating her. Her parents told her that their family honour will be damaged if she came back, so they sent her back to her husband’s house and she tried to kill herself.

• A 17 year old girl - a student of Kadiköy Kiz Lisesi jumped out of balcony on the 3^rd level of building to kill herself because her parents were forcing her into an unwanted marriage.

• In Demirlibahçe, Ankara, Nuray Nergiz was raped by her father-in-law many times. Allegedly, she told this to her husband. In return, her husband did not do anything. And she went back to her parents’ house in Ürgüp Sahinefendi. Her relatives took her to the police to tell them what was happening. After she returned from the police station she hung herself.

• In Eyüp, Istanbul, Muazzez Yuvarlak (36 years old) jumped from Golden Horn Bridge as she could no longer bear to be beaten, in front of her children, by her husband.  She had been saying that “ my husband will kill me soon.”

• In Kartal Istanbul, Hamide Kibar jumped out of her 5^th floor apartment with her two kids, killing herself and the children. Her relatives are suspecting that her husband suggested or forced her suicide.

• A 17 year old woman, Yurdagül Ayaz, 8 months pregnant with twins was killed by 30 knife wound. She was found in the local cemetery with the knife in her vagina. Before her death, her father Hanife Ayaz (62 years old) chained her in his basement to make her to marry a man she did not love. She was supposedly in love with her cousin and married him but after the marriage he forced her into prostitution and was arrested by the police. Five days later she was found dead. It all happened in Gaziantep.

• Kemal Orcan killed his wife and his own daughter and then committed suicide. His wife was allegedly having an affair with his business partner. He also had a second wife through a religious marriage and 1 year old child from his second marriage. He also killed 3 other men in his office after killing his own daughter.

• Aysel Dikmen (18 years old) was executed in the name of honour by her father Mahmut Dikmen (55 years old). Aysel ran away from home with the man she loved - Ramazan Kiliç - to another village. Since she was under age she was arrested by gendarme. The police knew she would be killed because of traditional values, and they did not return the girl to her family, instead she was placed in an orphanage in Ankara. Afterwards her father kept insisting that he would not harm her and eventually she was returned to her family. The family forced her into a marriage with her cousin Ibrahim Ok. Both of them went to a relative’s house without knowing that her father was there and he killed her. While he was trying to run away, he fired the gun accidentally and killed himself.

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