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Old 10-02-2010, 06:13 PM   #1
Hixinfineedom

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Wow you should be a politician! You are great at placing comments out of context. What he said was, "It sounds to me like a cross-section of Turkey from an educational and economic point of view."

Put another way from the same source, same guy "It is not appropriate to associate honor killings with only one section of society. Some people think that it is related to a feudal structure, but this has proven to be false. There are also perpetrators who are well-educated university graduates. Of all those surveyed, 60 percent are either high school or university gradates or at the very least, literate. The victims of honor killing are not always women; males have also been targeted," The funny part? You got it he conducted his research in... the South East. Other research has found that most of the honor killings in the cities comes from Kurds who have migrated there.

Here is quite an interesting article which again features Bagli, it's from stophonourkillings.com http://www.stophonourkillings.com/?q=node/3592 There is some other interesting stuff on that site including stuff about how Turkey's attempts to prevent honor killings by tougher punishment has led instead to families forcing women into suicide.
Exactly. He said its not only the Kurds. And that was my point.

I'm not an expert on honor killings, but it doesn't seem right to pin them on kurds. Isn't it more commonly a Muslim thing? and happen throughout the world, not just Turkey. Turkey is an interesting situation, because it's at a crossroads of being a modern European style state, but it also has significant parts of the population that have medievil mindsets (not just Kurds)

There are dozens of honor killings in the US even, and it's my understanding it's not a Kurdish thing, more like extremist Muslims from Africa and parts of the Middle East. Maybe kurds engage in it too, so maybe it's not extremist Muslim related. Kurds are not Muslim correct? aren't they traditionally persecuted by Turks (and everyone else for that matter)?
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