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” [...]
Archive for July 22nd, 2007
Banaz Mahmoud was raped before honour killing
Posted in Islamism, UK, Women's Rights on July 22, 2007 | 24 Comments »
Elections in Turkey
Posted in Iraq, Islamism, Turkey, Women's Rights, elections, war on terrorism on July 22, 2007 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]














