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07/23/04: Factual Aspect FD.3: Crimes of Honor:

Turkey Doing Little to Protect Women's Lives
ISTANBUL, Turkey (WOMENSENEWS)--Guldunya Toren wasn't even safe lying in a hospital bed.
An unmarried 24-year-old from Turkey's impoverished and conservative southeast region, Toren was sent to live with an uncle and her brothers in Istanbul when her family discovered she was pregnant in 2003. In Istanbul, though, Toren's brothers presented her with a stark choice: Kill yourself to save the family's honor or we will kill you ourselves.

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