Citation

Kogacioglu D. Differences 2004; 15(2): 118.

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(Copyright © 2004, Duke University Press)

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Abstract

An honor crime is commonly defined as the murder of a woman by members of her family who do not approve of her sexual behavior. 1 While there are no official statistics on the crime in Turkey, an incomplete collection of the cases that received coverage in the national media shows that in the three-year period between 1994 and 1996 a total of fifty-three women fell victim to honor killings.