Six Women, Four Months: the Fatherland Weeps

She lived outside hijab,

like a German, no

headscarf but Western

freedom, leading a life electric --

trade school and boyfriends.

Her proper Turkish brothers

who wanted only her eyes,

took them. Her head,

then chest targets

for a rage of gunfire. She joins

five Turkish sisters: two stabbed,

one shot; one strangled; one drowned.

For the honor.

Hatin Surucu: murdered by her three brothers, February 7, 2005