In Turkey a 26 year old women named
Nevin Yildirim is currently awaiting her trial date after she shot and beheaded
the man the man who had been raping her for eight months. Yildrim is the mother
of two children her husband had went away for business when her rapist began to
rape her. In Turkey a thing like this can ruin a woman's reputation as well as
honor and the reputation and honor of her children. Yildirim reportedly said that
she killed to clean her honor the honor of her children. Her lawyer says that
Yildirim used self-defense and shouldn’t be charged with murder.
Yildirim has said that she wants to
die for has happened to her. She is currently pregnant with the baby of her
rapist. When she tired get the baby aborted she was told that she 14 weeks pregnant
and could not receive abortion. In Turkey a women can only have an abortion
with in the first ten weeks. While she saved her honor her reputation is still
in shambles for the act of her being raped having even taken place. She
understands that killing him was not right, but that is what she felt she
needed to do to get him to stop. The amount of shame she feels has caused her
to think about suicide but she just couldn’t bring her to do it. Yildirim’s
lawyer says that her client’s mental health is question do the trauma that she
went through in the past eight months.
Yildirim’s
case shows how rape is seen across the world. In some cases the woman is seen
as a victim while in other she risk being kicked out her village or town. They are made to feel as if they have done
something wrong rather than that were victims of a crime.
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