'Honour killings': murder by any other name
'Honour killings' are spreading at an alarming rate, and not just in the Middle East. What makes a man kill a family member?
Elif Shafak
guardian.co.uk, Monday 30 April 2012 16.00 EDT
Gonay Ogmen is the son of a Christian Armenian family in Istanbul. In December 2010, in the back of his car, he gunned down two young people — one of them his sister. His reason for committing a double murder: "honour".
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