"Court reduces 'honor killing' sentences, activists protest
(Turkish Daily News Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)A Turkish court has handed down reduced prison sentences to the brother and two cousins of a victim of a gruesome honor killing, sparking angry protest from campaigners working to end the practice of honor killings.
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Rights campaigners on Saturday said that penalties like those decided by a southeastern court on Friday failed to discourage the slaying of women by relatives in a traditional act to 'cleanse' family honor."
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