Banaz Mahmoud was raped before honour killing

I wrote about her brutal honor killing here. Now it looks like she was also brutally raped before being killed, while her uncle was supervising everything. Her two murderers laughed about her killing.
A Kurdish woman was brutally raped, stamped on and strangled by members of her family and their friends in an “honor killing” [...]

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Elections in Turkey

Today there are elections in Turkey, after some months of a very difficult situation, including the conflict between the Islamists and the secularists.
The role of religion here will be a key issue at the ballot box, and so will Turkey’s relations with the outside world, our correspondent adds.
Nationalist sentiment is running high, fed by [...]

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