Saturday, March 20, 2010
3. Güldünya
Güldünya was a 23-year-old girl, who was in love with a boy. They loved each other, she got pregnant and also the man was married.
This sounds like a normal story, but the tragic part has happened after that. Gümdünya's family realised that she was pregnant and learned who was the baby from. First they decided the man to take Güldünya as his "second wife", but she did not want it and ran away. He went to İstanbul and started to live with a relative of her. She was happy and she had started to think that she could build a new life with her baby. Then one day his brother came and gave Güldünya a rope, told her to commit suicide. She did not, and went to police. Police talked to Güldünya's brothers and father, and they "promised", that they won't kill her. Police was seeming like protecting her but Güldünya got shot by her brother, but she did not die. Maybe the police could not follow her all the time or they had "no place" in the government's special houses, which are built for these kind of cases. This can be ok, but how can her brother come again and kill her in the hospital room? Isn't it obvious that they will come again and kill her? What was the police doing at that time? Were they trying to prevent people to drink beer on the street(!) or were they searching random people's cars to find something for bribe? What can be more important than a person's life? Does the police do anything else from taking kissing couples to the police station?
I think police is as guilty as Güldünya's brother.
Monday, March 8, 2010
2. Honour Killings
In this semester's research paper, I will write about honour killings. When I look at other options, I see that none of them attracks my attention as much as honour killings does. I had also evaluated this in my TLL 001 course, when I was writing about the necessity of the abortion pills and the pregnant girls being killed, so I have a little background about honour killings. I also plan to talk to people who are actually in these cases (like the mother of an honour killing victim) and write about them, if this is possible.
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