Onur Sandal was buried alive for the sake of "honor"

Every year, hundreds of people are killed in Turkey for reasons of "honor". Onur Sandal, 16, refused to marry the girl with whom he had had sex. Just buried alive.



The young man's conquest Turkish Onur Sandal, 16, did not go as planned. The girl's father did not find the joke that Onur having sex with her daughter and wanted to force him to marry, says the Spanish newspaper ABC. The young man refused and ended up buried alive for the sake of "honor".

Onur Sandal, electrician, led in the street when a car pulled up beside him. Car, left five people. Grabbed him and led him away. When the family made complaints of disappearance, police were checking the images of street security cameras. And were able to identify those responsible, a man of 46 years - mentioned in the media by the Turkish initials AT - The father of the young girl who had courted Onur, a brother of the girl aged 18, and also three friends of the boy.

The target Onur proved tortuous: taken to the woods, tortured, stabbed and then buried alive. According to the Turkish newspaper Hürriyet Daily News, this was the confession of the father and son. A.T. revealed that the kidnapping was intended to press Onur Sandal to marry the daughter, with whom he had already had sex. It was a matter of "honor," he said.

But Onur refused. As a consequence, was stabbed 65 times, beaten and buried alive in the middle of a forest. "I'm dying. My mother was giving me his blessing, did it suffer a lot, "said Onur, while the shoveling dirt fell on him, according to the girl's father's account.

With the indications of the killers, the police managed to find the corpse of Onur Sandal. The autopsy confirmed the report. According to the Spanish newspaper ABC, the killers were arrested and three other individuals who helped kidnap victims were left at liberty on bail, and AT and his son argued that they had nothing to do with the crime.

Every year, hundreds of people are killed in Turkey for reasons of "honor". The main victims of these crimes are women whose parents or relatives consider that these had their "purity" tainted due to reasons of sexual nature, tells ABC.