Forced marriage and murder in Turkey

A guest post by Torcant Torcant

Warning: it’s a horror.

Dilan (18) was married 20 days ago to her husband Selcuk Dogan, in Dogubeyazit at Agri province in Turkey. She was actually her husbands maternal aunts daughter. Dilan and Selcuk were engaged a year ago after an arrangement made by their families. Dilan was in love with someone else, but nevertheless she couldn’t resist her family and accepted the engagement. During the period she was engaged she made clear that she didn’t love and want her arranged husband and later she openly confessed to Selcuk that she was in love with someone else. But who cares? Did she have a vagina? Yes! She was forced to marry. After the marriage, she refused to have sex with her husband. Well, now that’s a problem! The husband told the story to his family. The husband’s family contacted Dilan’s family and said “Your daughter is in love with someone else, take her back!”. Her family said “We can’t take her back. That will bring us shame!”

Husband’s family gathered to discuss the problem and decided that they should kill the bride, and the husband should do it. The husband summoned his wife to the family gathering and stabbed her multiple times in front of his father, mother and brother. Then the men loaded her dead body to their car and buried somewhere, while the mother cleaned up the blood in the house.

The news story says that later “The husband felt remorse and he turned himself in to the police” but I highly doubt it. There must be something else going on.

The guy, the brother and the father are under detention now. The mother is at home, still scrubbing!

The link to the news story in Turkish: http://www.sabah.com.tr/Yasam/2013/06/26/yirmi-gunluk-kocasi-oldurdu-ailesi-izledi

Turkish media do not publish such stories in English!