Turkish woman awaits trial after beheading her alleged rapist

[Narniah]

(CNN) -- A woman in Turkey is awaiting trial after beheading a man who she says raped her repeatedly for months and is the father of her unborn child. Her lawyer says the woman killed the man to protect her honor.

 

Nevin Yildirim, a 26-year-old mother of two, lives in a small village in southwestern Turkey. She said the man, Nurettin Gider, began the attacks a few days after her husband left in January for a seasonal job in another town, according to a source close to the case.

 

Yildirim said Gider threatened her with a gun and said he would kill her children, ages 2 and 6, if she made any noise, according to the source. That was the first of repeated rapes over the next eight months, the source said.

 

At one point, Yildirim said, Gider sneaked into her house while she was asleep and took pictures of her, the source said. One of the pictures shows her pregnant body. Gider threatened to publish the pictures if she didn't obey him, the source said.

 

In small villages like hers, honor is held above all else, and women carry the burden of honor for their families. Pictures like those would have been devastating for Yildirim and her family and could have posed a danger.

 

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On August 28, at least five months pregnant by a man who she said continued to rape her, Yildirim said she decided she had had enough. Gider was climbing up the back wall of her house. "I knew he was going to rape me again," she said at her preliminary hearing August 30.

 

She said she grabbed her father-in-law's rifle that was hanging on the wall and she shot him. He tried to draw his gun and she fired again.

 

"I chased him," she said. "He fell on the ground. He started cussing. I shot his sexual organ this time. He became quiet. I knew he was dead. I then cut his head off."

 

Witnesses described Yildirim walking into the village square, carrying the man's head by his hair, blood dripping on the ground.

 

"Don't talk behind my back, don't play with my honor," Yildirim said to the men sitting in the coffee house on the square. "Here is the head of the man who played with my honor."

 

She threw Gider's head to the ground, the witnesses said. Video from Turkish broadcaster DHA, which arrived on the scene before the authorities, showed Gider's head on the ground.

 

Witnesses called authorities and Yildirim was arrested.

 

Gider was 35 and the father of two children, 15 and 9. He was married to an aunt of Yildirim's husband.

 

Yildirim told her legal representative she regrets what happened, the source said.

 

"I thought of reporting him to military police and to the district attorney, but this was going to mark me as a scorned woman," Yildirim said, according to the source. "Since I was going to get a bad reputation I decided to clean my honor and acted on killing him. I thought of suicide a lot but couldn't do it."

 

Yildirim said she was worried people would judge her children because of what happened, the source said.

 

"Now no one can call my children *******s," she said, according to the source. "I cleaned my honor. Everyone will call them the children of the woman who cleaned her honor."

 

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The source said Yildirim went to a health clinic a while ago seeking an abortion, but health workers told her she was 14 weeks pregnant and abortion was not an option.

 

In Turkey, abortion is allowed during the first 10 weeks of pregnancy, after which it is permitted only to save the life or health of the mother or in cases of fetal impairment, Human Rights Watch said.

 

At her hearing, Yildirim said she doesn't want to keep the baby and that she is ready to die, the source said. The public prosecutor's office has ordered a medical examination to decide whether Yildirim may have an abortion and to assess her mental stability, the source said.

 

Yildirim's father, Zekeriya Yildiz, told DHA his daughter did not report the alleged abuse to anyone in the family.

 

"If she would have told us, we would have taken other precautions," he said.

 

Yildirim is in the local jail while she awaits trial.

 

In a report last year, Human Rights Watch decried gaps in Turkish law that it said leave women and girls unprotected from domestic abuse. Some 42% of women older than 15 in Turkey and 47% of rural women have experienced physical or sexual violence at the hands of a husband or partner at some point in their lives, the group said.

 

"She has lived through a terrible trauma. She must be charged with self-defense," said Gursel Oztunali Kayir, a sociologist at Akdeniz University and a member of Antalya Women Support Organization.

 

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/09/05/world/europe/turkey-rape-beheading/

[ElPunto]

After the first rape why didn't she go to the police? Or leave the area? Or do anything else short of waiting around to be raped for 8 months instead of beheading the guy? It doesn't make much sense to me.

[Narniah]

ElPunto;865223 wrote:

After the first rape why didn't she go to the police?

Because of this:

Yildirim said Gider threatened her with a gun and said he would kill her children, ages 2 and 6, if she made any noise, according to the source.

[Bluelicious]

We have a woman who who cut a man's sexual organ off don't recall her name anymore and now we have this woman who not only shot a man in his sexual organ but also beheaded him. In a way the man was asking for it thinking he could get away with it.

[Narniah]

Witnesses described Yildirim walking into the village square, carrying the man's head by his hair, blood dripping on the ground.

 

"Don't talk behind my back, don't play with my honor," Yildirim said to the men sitting in the coffee house on the square. "Here is the head of the man who played with my honor."

SubhanaAllah, this reminds me of this proverb:|

"The softness of a person's nature doesn't mean weakness because nothing is softer than water but its force can break the strongest Rocks."

 

A woman is no different, specially a mother. I think she killed him because she wanted to protect her children. May Allah grant her patience and protect her from harm ameen. She's such an inspiration to many who have no strength or voice.

[ElPunto]

This woman had a choice before deciding to behead this guy - why go through 8 months of rape - she could have moved her kids to safety. It doesn't make sense. But no doubt this guy deserved it if the rapes happened. I just question her judgement.

[Bluelicious]

Narniah;865228 wrote:

SubhanaAllah, this reminds me of this proverb:|

"The softness of a person's nature doesn't mean weakness because nothing is softer than water but its force can break the strongest Rocks."

 

A woman is no different, specially a mother. I think she killed him because she wanted to protect her children. May Allah grant her patience and protect her from harm ameen. She's such an inspiration to many who have no strength or voice.

Well said i'm familiar with that proverb! There are people who view being soft spoken or gentle as a weakness and not as strength. Never underestimate a person for you don't know what they are capable of. As for that man he got what he worked for by that courageous woman she has suffered enough abuse and finally stood up for herself.

 

ElPunto;865229 wrote:

This woman had a choice before deciding to behead this guy - why go through 8 months of rape -

she could have moved her kids to safety

. It doesn't make sense. But no doubt this guy deserved it if the rapes happened. I just question her judgement.

She lived in a small village there is no safety.

[GaraadMon]

Bluelicious;865227 wrote:

We have a woman who who cut a man's sexual organ off don't recall her name anymore and now we have this woman who not only shot a man in his sexual organ but also beheaded him. In a way the man was asking for it thinking he could get away with it.

Are you talking about the L.A case, in which the only crime committed by the man was filing for divorce? If so, I don't see how the two are comparable as one involves an allegedly battered woman and the other a sadistic psychopathic woman.

[Wadani]

ElPunto;865229 wrote:

This woman had a choice before deciding to behead this guy - why go through 8 months of rape - she could have moved her kids to safety. It doesn't make sense. But no doubt this guy deserved it if the rapes happened. I just question her judgement.

You're making too many assumptions. Firstly, how do u know if she has the financial means to move? Secondly, do you think picking up and leaving a village she was propably born in and lived in her whole life would be taken lightly by her family, husband, neighbours and fellow villagers? This would undoubtedly arouse the type of suspicion she was so desperately trying to avoid. Thirdly, moving would'nt even ensure the safety of her children unless the rapist was put behind bars for life (not even an option as her honor would be tarnished) or killed. This lady did exactly what she had to do given the circumstances.

[Bluelicious]

Blackflash;865235 wrote:

Are you talking about the

L.A case

, in which the only crime committed by the man was filing for divorce? If so, I don't see how the two are comparable as one involves an allegedly battered woman and the other a sadistic psychopathic woman.

This isn't the case I meant and no I wasn't comparing the two just mentioning that there was an American woman who did that years ago when her husband cheated on her back then it was a big case that shocked everyone. She pretty much set the tone after that woman all women across the globe started to imitate her and cut their husbands sexual organs off. Men better watch out when they are sleeping at night or better yet never make a woman angry at night.

[GaraadMon]

Bluelicious;865238 wrote:

This isn't the case I meant and no I wasn't comparing the two just mentioning that there was an American woman who did that years ago when her husband cheated on her back then it was a big case that shocked everyone. She pretty much set the tone after that woman all women across the globe started to imitate her and cut their husbands sexual organs off. Men better watch out when they are sleeping at night or better yet never make a woman angry at night.

Oh I see! I guess you're talking about Lorena Bobbitt. There was evidence to suggest spousal rape and violence in that case, so I can definitely see the comparison now.

[Bluelicious]

Blackflash;865239 wrote:

Oh I see! I guess you're talking about Lorena Bobbitt. There was evidence to suggest spousal rape and violence in that case, so I can definitely see the comparison now.

Bingo that was the one I meant that happened in the 90's. She was the first to do such act and in that time it shocked the world, she even appeared on the Oprah show. You really worked well with my vague information.

 

Ps according to Oprah show she is married now unbelievable you would think her chances of ever getting married again would go down the drain :eek:

[Raamsade]

Expect only Somalis to justify brutality such as this. This woman is cold blooded murderer irrespective of extenuating circumstances.

[Wadani]

^ So wat do u suggest she should've done?

[Raamsade]

Wadani, I don't know what she could've done because I'm not privy to all the details. But nothing can justify what this psychopath did. Why decapitate a dead man? Why castrate a dead/dying man? This speaks to some deap-seated cruelty on her part. If it was up to me I would brand her unfit mother and take away her children.

 

I detest rapists don't get me wrong.