A 16-year-old Turkish girl was buried alive under a chicken coop by relatives because she talked to boys.

The body of Medine Memi was found in a sitting position with her hands tied in a 6ft hole dug in the courtyard of her family's home in Kahta, south-eastern Turkey, 40 days after she had been reported missing. The hole had been cemented over.

The teenager had a large amount of soil in her lungs and stomach - showing she suffered a slow and agonising death.

'The autopsy result is blood-curdling. According to our findings, the girl – who had no bruises on her body and no sign of narcotics or poison in her blood – was alive and fully conscious when she was buried,' said a forensics expert.
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A man, believed to be Medine's father, is led out of a police station by officers in Adiyaman, south-eastern Turkey
Medine Memi

This is the hole, under a chicken coop, in which Medine was buried alive by relatives. It is positioned in the courtyard next to the family home

Suspicion that her death had been especially brutal led to the commissioning of a report by university scientists after the original post-mortem examination.

Medine Meme's father and grandfather have now been arrested and jailed awaiting trial. The girl's mother was arrested, but later released.

It has emerged that the girl had made a complaint to police about her grandfather two months before she went missing, saying that he beat her because she talked to boys.

In addition her father Ayhan is said to have told relatives that he was unhappy that his daughter - one of nine children - had male friends.

Police made the grisly discovery in December following a tip-off from an informant.

After Medine's body was found in December, her mother Immihan said: 'She tried to take refuge at the police station three times, and she was sent home three times.'
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The case has caused outrage in Turkey and reopened the debate over so-called honour killings which are particularly prevalent in the predominantly Kurdish south-east of the country.

Such killings are usually decided by a council of relatives which consist of the elders of the family.

Official figures state there are more than 200 such killings a year, around half of all murders in Turkey.

One commentator wrote on the website of a religious TV station: 'The punishment for whosoever should kill with intent is the hell where he will languish forever. Allah has cursed him and prepared great pain for him

'You named your daughter after the holy city of Medina but your mind is left over from the earlier Age of Ignorance.

Barbarism in the cruelest form

well,

Deep Soul:

Na wa. These muslims sef. I hope there's a special hell awaiting them

This has nothing to do with their Islamic belief. Rather it is just part of their culture, predominantly Asian Culture.

Na wa. These muslims sef. I hope there's a special hell awaiting them

Didn't you read the last part of the post about what the commenter said on TV?
@OP,
Abeg paste link jor. Which kain sourceless post be this?

Tsiya:

This has nothing to do with their Islamic belief. Rather it is just part of their culture, predominantly Asian Culture.

Noted.

Cyberfreak:

Didn't you read the last part of the post about what the commenter said on TV?

I wish I had something appropriate to reply your uncouth response 

i weep everyday for women and girls in this part of world.
i weep for their suppression and maltreatment
God why?

Deep Soul:

Na wa. These muslims sef. I hope there's a special hell awaiting them

Shut your mouth down, you ignorant raaaasclaat!!!
You guys should get some education and stop fanning religious wars here and there. . .

This is ridiculous!!!
Another muslim again?, may her soul rest in peace and may her father see no peace.

@Deep Soul,
which part of my comment is uncouth? Didn't you read it properly?

tell me how did this "honor killing" bring honor to this family? seems like her death brough more shame then her friendship

what a shame