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Turkish backing for honour crimes

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A survey by a university in Turkey has shown almost 40% support for the practice of "honour killing". The results come days after a court in Istanbul gave a life sentence for the murder of a girl by her brothers for giving birth to a child out of wedlock.

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Posted by Haitham Sabbah on Friday, October 21, 2005, at 9:12 pm. Filed under Bleeding Edge, Failures, Human Rights, Islam, Religion. Tagged , , , , , , . Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. Comments are closed, but you can trackback from your blog.