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To: FJB who wrote (2715)	10/31/2006 7:25:11 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 20106

Teenage girl murdered by brother in 'honor killing' AFP October 23, 2006 metimes.com ANKARA -- A 15-year-old girl who gave birth to a child that she said resulted from a rape became the latest victim of so-called "honor killings" in Turkey, newspapers said Monday. The young girl, from a mainly Kurdish town near Turkey's eastern border with Iran, was murdered by an elder brother Saturday, press reports said. The victim, named only as Naile, had apparently not been aware that she was pregnant until she started feeling unwell and was admitted to a hospital, where she gave birth to a boy, the reports added. She later told her mother that the pregnancy had resulted from a rape. When other members of the family heard the news, the elder brother shot her dead at point-blank range in a street of the town, and then fled. The Vatan newspaper quoted the local public prosecutor as saying that the family were believed to have convened a meeting at which they designated the brother to kill the girl, in order to remove what they saw as a stain on their honor. In recent years the Turkish government has stepped up its efforts to crack down on such crimes, which now carry a life prison sentence. Most "honor killings" in Turkey occur in the mainly Kurdish southeast of the country. Saturday's incident was in the town of Baskale.