Honor killing of Hatun Sürücü, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German murder victim
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Place of Birth: Berlin
About Honor killing of Hatun Sürücü
- Hatun "Aynur" Sürücü (also spelled Hatin Sürücü; January 17, 1982, in Berlin – February 7, 2005, in Berlin) was a Turkish-Kurdish woman living in Germany whose family was originally from Erzurum, Turkey.
- She was murdered at the age of 23 in Berlin, by her own youngest brother, in an honor killing and sororicide.
- Sürücü had divorced the cousin she was forced to marry at the age of 16, and was reportedly dating a German man.
- Her murder inflamed a public debate over forced marriage in Muslim families. Sürücü was sent to her ancestral village by her family and forced to marry a cousin there at the age of 16.
- She gave birth to a son, Can, in 1999.
- In October 1999, she fled her parents' home in Berlin, finding refuge in a home for underage mothers.
- She attended school, and had moved into her own apartment in the Tempelhof neighborhood of Berlin.
- At the time of her murder, she was at the end of her training to become an electrician.
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