Dimension of Violence Against Women: Customary And Honor Killings

Abstract

Objective: The aim of this study is to analyze honor and homicide,which is a kind of violence.Method: This is a descriptive retrospective study. The populationconsist of five large-spread newspapers that were published in theyear of 2007 with total of 1825 daily newspaper and can be read viathe Internet. The content analyses of the news nhave been separately carried out by the researchers.news =161 and events nevent =87 Result: The researchers have encountered 87 honor and homicidenews in these newspapers, and these scanned newspapers havecarried news of such events 161 times an event can be found in othernewspapers as well . It has been determined that 33.3% of the honorand homicides occurred in southeastern Anatolia Region, the causesof 19.0% of the violence were “lodging a police complaint against herhusband/wanting to get divorced”, 29.5% of the homicides werecommitted with “firearms”, and the suspects were arrested at a rateof 48.3%. It has been determined in the study that homicides werecommitted at a rate of 67.8% and there was an attempted murder in10.3% of all the cases. Conclusion: It is of crucial importance that visual and print mediashould convey all kinds of events with violent content to thecommunity properly and with right messages. Honor and homicide,which is a serious human rights violation, should be emphasized bymeans of using mass media effectively and scientific activities; thisproblem should be pointed out through other studies, as well