Honour Killing

'Ayse Onal has done an immense service by revealing what it is like to live in an honour-based society and the terrible cost, not just to the women who are beaten and eventually killed, but to the perpetrators and other relatives' - Joan Smith. Honour killing persists across the Middle East, where regimes refrain from tackling primitive traditions for fear of sparking unrest. Ayse Onal interviewed imprisoned men in Turkey convicted of killing their mothers, sisters and daughters. The result is a revealing and ultimately tragic account of ruined lives - both the victims' and the killers' - in a country where state and religion conspire to hush up the killing of hundreds of women every year. It includes an introduction by Joan Smith.

ISBN	0863566170	DEWEY edition	DC22
ISBN13	9780863566172 (What's this?)	Pages	256
Publisher	Saqi Books	Volumes	1
Imprint	Saqi Books	Weight (grammes)	295
Format	Paperback	Published in	London
Publication date	30 May 2008	Height (mm)	210
Writer of introduction	Smith, Joan	Width (mm)	135
Library of Congress	HV6197	Spine width (mm)	15
DEWEY	364.15230922	Academic level	General

	Introduction by Joan Smith	9
1	Remziye	19
2	Hanim	49
3	Cavit Bey and Mehmet Sait	75
4	Nuran	99
5	Aysel	125
6	Naile	147
7	Nigar	167
8	Fadime and Yerer	181
9	Ulviye	201
10	Papatya	235
	Afterword	253

'...this is, clearly, a book that demands to be read...Onal's bravery is remarkable...her writing shows no fear.' Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian

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