Abstract
I hadn’t expected to share a cup of coffee with a murderer when I headed down to the southern Turkish city of Sanliurfa in 2002. Many of Turkey’s honor killings have occurred in this conservative and still largely tribal region inhabited by ethnic Turks, Arabs, and Kurds. According to a parliamentary subcommission formed in 2009 to investigate child marriages, this region also has the highest incidence of teenage marriages in Turkey.
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Pope, N. (2012). Perpetrators. In: Honor Killings in the Twenty-First Century. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137012661_10
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