TY  - BOOK
AU  - Eck,Clementine van
TI  - Purified by Blood: Honour Killings Amongst Turks in the Netherlands 
SN  - 9789053564912
PY  - 2002///]
CY  - Amsterdam : 
PB  - Amsterdam University Press, 
KW  - Social problems
KW  - Netherlands
KW  - Turks
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Vendetta (Islamic law)
KW  - Vendetta
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Table of contents --; Preface --; Introduction --; 1. Honour and honour killing --; 2. The victim --; 3. The honour killer --; 4. Marriage and elopement --; 5. More case studies --; 6. Alternatives to honour killing --; 7. Why an honour killing? --; Conclusion --; Appendix I. More case studies from the court records --; Appendix II. Case studies from Bitlis province --; Appendix III. The Turkish Criminal Code (TCK) and honour killing --; Notes --; Literature --; Index; Open Access
N2  - Honor killings-murders carried out to cleanse tarnished family honor or chastity-have long been reported as significant problems in the heart of the Muslim world. It is also a widely known phenomenon in Turkey, where an average of six such killings is reported per month, and with Turkish migration to Western Europe since the 1960s, these murders have been reported in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, Sweden, and Denmark. Clementine van Eck's incisive study examines twenty such murders committed in the Netherlands, focusing particular attention on the social factors that play a role in the decision to commit an honor killing
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048505050
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789048505050
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