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Honor suicide is a process whereby a Muslim woman commits suicide to escape the shame of having been raped or having had extra-marital sexual relations, thereby violating the namus of her family. There are also documented cases in which relatives pressured a victim to kill herself to avoid penalties for murdering her in an honor killing; this practice is known as forced suicide.
A recent phenomenon of honor suicides occurred in Turkey and a special envoy for the United Nations named Yakin Erturk was sent to Turkey to investigate a number of suspicious suicides amongst Kurdish girls. The envoy was quoted by The New York Times as saying that some suicides appeared in Kurdish-inhabited regions of Turkey to be "honor killings disguised as a suicide or an accident."[1][2]
See also
References
- ^ Dan Bilefsky. "How to Avoid Honor Killing in Turkey? Honor Suicide". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/16/world/europe/16turkey.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1. Retrieved 2006-07-16.
- ^ Dan Bilefsky. "'Virgin suicides' save Turks' 'honor'". International Herald Tribune. http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/07/12/news/virgins.php. Retrieved 2006-07-12.
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