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Hatun Sürücü

d. 2008

Photograph at the Hatun Sürücü Memorial

Hatun "Aynur" Sürücü (17 January 1982 – 7 February 2005) was a Kurdish woman living in Germany whose family was originally from Erzurum, Turkey. She was murdered at the age of 23 in Berlin, in an honour killing by her youngest brother. 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 Istanbul 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 neighbourhood of Berlin. At the time of her murder, she was at the end of her training to become an electrician.

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