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Friday, January 20, 2012

Gay "honor killing" movie shakes Turkey up - chicagotribune.com

Gay "honor killing" movie shakes Turkey up

Ece Toksabay Reuters

6:59 a.m. CST, January 20, 2012

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - On a hot summer's day in 2008, 26-year-old physics student Ahmet Yildiz was shot dead when he popped out from his Istanbul apartment to buy ice cream.

The main suspect in the killing, a fugitive still wanted by Turkish police, is Yildiz's father, who could not accept that his only son was in a homosexual relationship.

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