Honor killings have a new name in Turkey.

This is just horrifying.
Since the Turkish government began cracking down on honor killings last year, a new trend is currently being investigated by the UN: serial suicides among young girls and women.
These incidents have been occurring mostly in the Kurdish southeast. An example is in Batman, where 10 of the 14 people who have committed suicide have been women and girls under the age of 23. (A few were as young as 12 years old.)
Activists are saying that these girls and women are being forced by their families to commit suicide because male relatives that usually commit honor killings are being given life sentences under a new penal code. In result, these girls are being told that if they don’t kill themselves, their father or brother will have to go to jail.
Others speculate that some are being murdered and then presented as suicide to the authorities. The UN Special Reporter on Violence Against Women, Yakin Erturk, is being sent to the area to find out exactly what is happening.
Amnesty International estimates that between a third and half of women living in Turkey suffer from some form of domestic violence.