Monday, February 16, 2015

Turkey Calls for Campaign Against 'Violence Against Women' While Honor Killings Remain Rampant



Turkey Calls for Campaign Against 'Violence Against Women' While Honor Killings Remain Rampant

by Phyllis Chesler
Breitbart
February 16, 2015

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Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has announced an "extensive campaign against violence against women across the country, in the aftermath of the brutal murder of a university student in an attempted rape on a public minibus."
Three men, now in custody, have been accused of stabbing twenty-year-old Ozgecan Aslan to death and then burning her body.
However, violence against women in Turkey is not confined to stranger rape, stranger harassment, or stranger murder. On the contrary, intimate partner and family violence in terms of honor killings are rampant.
According to the Turkish Cultural Foundation, honor killing is similar to "domestic violence," "knows no geographical boundaries…is not the preserve of any particular race," but "emanates from cultural and not religious roots." The report, based on a lecture delivered by Zulfi Livanelli, a member of the Turkish Parliament, notes that "domestic violence" is escalating in Europe—with no acknowledgement that honor killings in Europe– which may, wrongfully, be counted as incidents of domestic violence– are mainlycommitted by Muslims (from Turkey, Afghanistan, Pakistan, etc.), and not by Jews, Hindus, or Christians.
An honor killing is not at all like "domestic violence;" it is a family conspiracy against a female member, usually a teenage daughter, for a range of alleged crimes: refusing to veil, veiling improperly, standing too close to a non-relative male, talking to a boy or a man on a cellphone, refusing an arranged marriage, choosing infidel friends or husbands, etc.
Related Topics:  Gender, Honor Killings

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