I want to write about the terrible occasion happened in Siirt.
8 boys, at the age of 13-14 raped 2 babies and killed one of them. Those boys' friend, 14 year-old girl brings them her cousins when those boys blackmail her and say if she does not bring them little babies, they show her inappropriate photos to her family, and the girl brings her 2-year old cousins to them. Here, the thing is again "honour killings". That girl is afraid of her family and so brings the babies to them. If we had lived in a more educated and conscious society, the result would not be this. That girl would go to police and prevent such an ugly case, instead of being afraid of her parents and bring the babies. But actually, when we see the result, we see that if she had gone to the police, maybe nothing would have changed, because the governor of Siirt has explained that they made a "deal" with those boys and they are with their families, instead of being in the jail.
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Yes, here we see so many problems in modern Turkish amplified in a single case: lack of education, misplaced notions of 'honour' and tradition and the failure of the state. Totally horrifying.
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