Honour Killing: Stories of Men Who Killed

by Ayse Onal

Overview

Honour killing persists across the Middle East, where regimes refrain from tackling primitive traditions for fear of sparking unrest. Ayse Onal interviewed imprisoned men in Turkey convicted of killing their mothers, sisters and daughters. The result is a revealing and ultimately tragic account of ruined lives - both the victims' and the killers' - in a country where state and religion conspire to hush up the killing of hundreds of women every year.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780863568077
Publisher:	Saqi Books
Publication date:	03/05/2012
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

"Ayse Onal has won many awards for her work as a journalist, including the Courage in Journalism Award, and has reported on Turkish politics, organised crime and conflicts in the Middle East. She has been blacklisted by the government, threatened by Islamic fundamentalists, placed on death lists, arrested and shot. She was blacklisted again in 2007 after implicating the government in the assassination of journalist Hrant Dink and three Christian Turkish publishers. She lives in Istanbul."

Table of Contents

Contents Introduction by Joan Smith 9 1. Remziye 19 2. Hanim 47 3. Cavit Bey and Mehmet Sait Bozkurt 73 4. Nuran 97 5. Aysel 123 6. Naile 145 7. Nigar 165 8. Fadime and Yeter 179 9. Ulviye 199 10. Papatya 231 Afterword 247