Purified by Blood : : Honour Killings Amongst Turks in the Netherlands / / Clementine van Eck.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package Backfile 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Eck, Clementine van,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2002]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of contents --; Preface --; Introduction --; 1. Honour and honour killing --; 2. The victim --; 3. The honour killer --; 4. Marriage and elopement --; 5. More case studies --; 6. Alternatives to honour killing --; 7. Why an honour killing? --; Conclusion --; Appendix I. More case studies from the court records --; Appendix II. Case studies from Bitlis province --; Appendix III. The Turkish Criminal Code (TCK) and honour killing --; Notes --; Literature --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9789048505050; 9783110700671; 9783111023786; 9783110662788
• DOI: 10.1515/9789048505050
• Access: Open Access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Clementine van Eck.

Honor killings-murders carried out to cleanse tarnished family honor or chastity-have long been reported as significant problems in the heart of the Muslim world. It is also a widely known phenomenon in Turkey, where an average of six such killings is reported per month, and with Turkish migration to Western Europe since the 1960s, these murders have been reported in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, Sweden, and Denmark. Clementine van Eck's incisive study examines twenty such murders committed in the Netherlands, focusing particular attention on the social factors that play a role in the decision to commit an honor killing.