Woman beheads man who raped her and displays head in public

A 26 year old woman in Turkey is awaiting trial after beheading a man who raped her and impregnated her. Her lawyer says the woman killed the man to protect her honour.

Nevin Yildirim, a 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. Yildirim said Gider threatened her with a gun and said he would kill her children, ages 2 and 6, if she made any noise, he raped her and took took naked pictures of her with a threat to publish them if se reported him.

 

On August 28, at least five months pregnant, she decided she had had enough and when saw the rapist climbing the wall of her house, she knew he was coming to rape her again. 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 , he fell on the ground and 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,here is the head of the man who played with my honor."