World IN BRIEF : FRANCE : Family Sentenced for Killing Girl

The parents, brother and cousin of a Turkish girl were sentenced in the strangling death of a 15-year-old after they claimed she “dishonored” the family name by becoming too Westernized. The family members were sentenced to terms ranging from 20 years to life in prison in the case that riveted France and underscored the isolation of immigrant families. Abdullah Ilikpinar, 22, was convicted by a court in Colmar of strangling his sister, Nazmiye, in August, 1993, with the help of his cousin. The girl’s parents looked on. The family acknowledged plotting to kill Nazmiye because she had a French boyfriend, had run away from home several times and had asked to be placed in a youth home to escape abuse by her brother.