— Today’s Zaman reports:
— “The family did not report her as missing to any authorities, telling other villagers that they had ‘left the incident to God.'”
— “The prosecution charges in its indictment that the murder was an honor killing and that pressures related to the woman’s interactions with men in the conservative village had led her male relatives to kill her.”
— “The prosecution examined the woman’s cell phone records and found that her last call was to her boyfriend, H.K.”
— “He told the prosecution that the day Kilic supposedly got ‘lost,’ she had called him. ‘Her voice seemed very tense. She said she was at home — it was as if she was afraid someone would see her talking on the phone. She was in a hurry, she suggested we elope and said ‘otherwise they’ll kill me.'”
— March 24, 2009 – Turkey: Poll — Over a Quarter Support Extremist “Honor Killings”