Purified by Blood Honour Killings amongst Turks in the Netherlands

• Hoofdauteur: van Eck, Clementine (auth)
• Formaat: Elektronisch Hoofdstuk
• Taal: Engels
• Gepubliceerd in: Amsterdam University Press 2002
• Onderwerpen: Sociology & anthropology; sociology; anthropologie; sociologie; anthropology
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Honour killings are murders that are carried out to purify tarnished honour, the honour in question being namus. Both men and women possess namus. For women and girls, namus means chastity, while for men it means having chaste female family members. Honour killing is a widely known phenomenon in Tur...