Brother Gets 9 Years for ‘Honor Killing’
A court convicted a young Turkish man of murdering his sister in what prosecutors described as an “honor killing” meant to punish the woman for her Western lifestyle.
Ayhan Surucu, who was 18 at the time of the February 2005 fatal shooting of his sister, Hatun, was sentenced as a juvenile to nine years and three months in prison.
The court acquitted his two older brothers.
Hatun Surucu, a 23-year-old divorced mother, was killed by three shots to her head on a Berlin street. So-called honor killings are typically committed by men against female relatives, usually over suspected premarital sex, to preserve the family’s reputation.
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