Women murders Muş-Bitlis sample

Femicides or feminicides are the phenomena influencing the health of society adversely and continues to exist as a common problem of all humanity. In this study, the effects of social structure (e.g., culture, patriarchal family structure, and roles of social gender) over femicides were examined on the basis of honor killings and crimes of passion in the provinces of Muş (five cases) and Bitlis (four cases), Turkey. The information used in this study, belonging to nine femicides cases collected from the indictment records of National Judiciary Informatics System (UYAP) of Muş and Bitlis court houses. Based on the investigations, it is possible to see the effects of social structure over femicides in the light of indictments obtained from court houses. The meaning assigned to the honor and passion by the society is female-oriented. Put it another way, the females as a basic object of the femicides and of this study are perceived as synonym terms of honor and of passion by the society. In this context, the femicides congruent to the meaning of terms of honor and passion were determined in the case studies in this work