Entire Family Gets Life for Honor Killing

(Diyarbakir, Turkey) Sixteen-year-old Naile Erdas became pregnant because of a rape and her family colluded to murder her to preserve the family honor. As a consequence, five members of the same family have been sentenced to life in prison.

In its verdict Friday, a court in the eastern city of Van sentenced the murder victim's brother to life in jail for the 2006 murder said to have been committed to cleanse the family honor, the Van Women's Association said.

The girl's father, mother and two uncles were also given life sentences for instigating the murder, while a third uncle was jailed for 16 years and eight months for failing to report the murder in one of the heaviest sentences handed down in Turkey for such a killing.

"We can say this verdict is a first in terms of the harshness of the sentences and the fact that the entire family was convicted," Mazlum Bağlı, a researcher into honor killings at Dicle University in Diyarbakır....

Sadly, one week after giving birth, the prosecutor sent Naile Erdas home after the father promised she wouldn't be harmed but, within mere hours, her brother fatally shot her.

In summary, the daughter is dead and the family is in prison for life. Some honor, eh?

Companion post at The Jawa Report.