Honour Killing
"Töre" is a concept which belongs to Turkish Society. It is a kind of unwritten constitution which includes customs, traditional and moral rules and determines the places of different gender in society. In Turkey, the patriarchal society, on one hand that "unwritten constitution" regulates the society and try to keep it well-behaved, on the other hand they try to achieve organization by oppressing to women. The "chastity" builds up the principal structure of Töre in turkey and generally it is depended on women. The chastity equals woman. They must obey strictly to rules and breaking of traditional laws requires the most severe punishment. The woman must maintain her life under the shadow of rules by neglecting her thoughts and emotions. If there is a fault it must be punished, and usually it is resulted by homicide. The name of that kind of homicide is "honour killing". As far as I'm concerned, the honour killing is one of the critical issue which waits for solution at short notice, since still, in ever year, there are hundreds of women who suffer from honour killings especially in the east of Turkey. Therefore, I decided to do research on the subject of Honour Killing in Turkey and possible solutions about that situation. Even if it seems a little research for eng102 research paper, i hope i will analyse that subject deeply in my future academic and business life to provide abstract solution to society.
Wow - you've made a great start already by defining the concept of töre - well done!
ReplyDeleteYour choice and rationale are excellent. Have a look at the folder on SU Course for some starting points.
Good luck!
Thank you Sonja,
ReplyDeleteyes, I plan to look at the su course and also there are a lot of researches about honour killing in books, magazines,newspapers etc... I think, it is the best subject to write..