"TURKEY: 'HONOUR' KILLINGS REMAIN A SCOURGE
Istanbul, 25 August (AKI) - Turkish police this week released a report containing some grim facts regarding an age-old Turkish 'tradition'. Over the last five years 1,091 people - 710 of them women - have been murdered in Turkey in what are known as 'honour killings'. 'These murders are rooted in feudalistic and patriarchal structures,' says Canan Arin, who runs the Purple Roof Women's Foundation, a women's refuge. Last year, Turkey introduced a new penal code which states that those found guilty of honour killings must be sentenced to life imprisonment - a belated move say those who question Turkey's ambitions to join the European Union."
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