"Turkey works to stop 'honor' killings
The government, under pressure from feminists and the European Union, responds at a level unheard of in the Islamic world.
By Tracy Wilkinson, Times Staff Writer
January 9, 2007
DIYARBAKIR, TURKEY — Desperately unhappy, 21-year-old Sahe Fidan left the husband she despised and sought refuge in her parents' home. They refused to take her in. A married woman can leave her husband only in a coffin, they told her.
Fidan returned to the husband, and she left him in a coffin. A few weeks ago, she was found hanged in the bathroom, her infant son strapped to her back with a sheet.
Her corpse was discovered when the baby, unharmed, began to cry. Fidan had committed suicide.
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