How to Avoid Honor Killing in Turkey? Honor Suicide
To avoid punishments associated with honor killings, parents in Turkey are pressing their daughters to take their own lives.
"Um, ah, Sweetie? Well, Mommy and I were talking okay, and if you don't kill yourself then I will. That means I'll go to jail for a few months and the family will starve, so you'd be doing us all a big solid and Mommy is even talking to me about not mutilating your body, and know what? I just might scar you up a little but I promise, NO chopping things off, okay? That's my sweet little girl..."
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