Berdel

This article treats Berdel as a rule of marriage - on the German lawyer see Adolf Berdel .

Berdel ( Turkish for “girl swap”) describes a marriage rule in which two families get married cross- wise (double wedding). The custom is explained in the official dictionary of the Institute for the Turkish Language ( Türk Dil Kurumu ) as “simultaneous and reciprocal marriage of a son and daughter of one family to the son and daughter of another family” .

Berdel can be found in the Kurdish areas in the east and south-east of Turkey , where around 5% of marriages in 1926 were the result of this exchange of women . In the Diyarbakır region , the proportion of Berdel marriages in some villages is 16%. In the entire south-east, the proportion is now 4%. The fight against this custom is official government policy of Turkey.

The background to this double wedding is often economic problems. There is no need for a bride price (başlık) . At the same time, the bonds between two families are strengthened. Neither family loses any workforce, and wedding costs are saved at the same time. The tradition is favored by the patriarchal family structure and the feudal ownership and tribal structures . The custom is considered an indication of backwardness and a lack of education and is mentioned in connection with forced marriage .

Berdel is also the Turkish original title of the 1990 film The Second Wife of Atıf Yılmaz .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Thomas Seibert: Clans in southeast Turkey end feud - forced to marry at 14. In: RP Online . Rheinische Post Mediengruppe, Düsseldorf, October 21, 2006, accessed on August 24, 2013 .  
2. ↑ berdel. (No longer available online.) In: Güncel Türkçe Sözlük. Archived from the original on April 4, 2009 ; Retrieved August 24, 2013 (Turkish). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   
3. ^ Nicole Pope: Women in Turkish Society . In: Michael Lake (Ed.): The EU & Turkey: A Glittering Prize or a Millstone? The Federal Trust for Education & Research, London 2005, ISBN 1-903403-75-8 , pp. 118 (English, page 118 in the Google book search).
4. ↑ Ramazan Yavuz: Türkiye'nin utanç tablosu: 14 yaşında doğum. In: Hürriyet. December 6, 2006, accessed August 24, 2013 (Turkish).  
5. ↑ Yurdagül Şimşek: Güneydoğu "da berdel yüzde 4. In: Radikal. February 10, 2009, accessed on August 24, 2013 (Turkish).  
6. ^ Message: Bakan Çubukçu: "Berdel Töresini Kaldırmak İçin Çalışıyoruz". In: ANKA haberler.com. December 29, 2006, accessed August 24, 2013 (Turkish).  
7. ↑ Bir trajedi evliliği: Berdel. (No longer available online.) In: habercumhuriyeti.com. Formerly in the original ; Retrieved August 24, 2013 (Turkish).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.