Hatun Sürücü

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Hatun Aynur Sürücü (born January 17, 1982 in Berlin ; † February 7, 2005 there ) was a German Kurdish woman who fell victim to a so-called honor killing . She was killed by one of her brothers with three head shots at a bus stop in Berlin-Tempelhof .

Her death caused horror nationwide and sparked a debate about forced marriages and the values ​​of Muslim families living in Germany.

Life

Her father Kerem Sürücü (1940-2007) was a gardener's assistant and came from the village of Uzunark in Pasinler , Erzurum . Her mother Hanım Sürücü comes from the neighboring village of Marifet. They moved to Berlin in the early 1970s. Eight of their nine children were born in Germany, Hatun Sürücü grew up with five brothers and three sisters in Kreuzberg. She was the fifth child of the Sürücüs and their first daughter. After she had rebelled more and more against her family during puberty, her father de-registered her after the 8th grade of the Robert-Koch-Gymnasium in Kreuzberg . At the age of 16 she was forcibly married to her cousin Ismail in Istanbul , from whom she became pregnant in 1999. After an argument with him and his devout family, she returned to Berlin alone, where she gave birth to her son Can (Turkish: "soul", "life"). She gave herself the nickname Aynur , which means "moon beam" or "someone who shines as brightly as the moon".

In October 1999, Sürücü moved out of her parents' apartment in Kreuzberg at Kottbusser Tor , took off her headscarf and found refuge in a dormitory for underage mothers. There she made up her secondary school diploma . At the same time she was looking for psychotherapeutic support. She later moved into her own apartment in Berlin-Tempelhof and began an apprenticeship as an electrician . She successfully completed her apprenticeship and in 2005 was only a few days before the completion of her journeyman's examination. Immediately afterwards she wanted to move to southern Germany and later do her high school diploma. Since she still wanted to be accepted by her family, she kept in touch with parents and siblings.

Hatun Sürücü was described as " immensely friendly", "self-confident", "very independent", as well as a loving mother and devout Muslim woman. She was very much valued in her settlement and at work. She urged her supervisor in the youth welfare office that, in the event of her death, her son Can should not be raised by the Sürücü family, but by foster parents. "She had so much strength," said one social worker.

assassination

Sequence of events

According to her brother Ayhan Sürücü, he visited her at her home on the evening of February 7, 2005. An argument broke out, but she accompanied him outside and on the way to the bus stop on Tempelhofer Oberlandstrasse . There he asked her: “Do you repent of your sins?” And then killed her with three head shots. On February 14, 2005, police arrested three of her brothers as suspects. The investigators suspected a so-called “honor killing” as the motive for the crime after they learned that Sürücü had left her husband and her family and decided to lead an independent life. Sürücü had previously reported death threats against her to the police several times, but received no protection.

Reactions

In public, the murder case was immediately linked to six other homicides in Berlin since October 2004, where the suspected motive was an “honor killing” of a woman.

The case attracted further attention through the discussion in an eighth grade of the Thomas-More-Oberschule in Berlin-Neukölln , in which three students approved the murder ("It's her own fault. The whore ran around like a German") School principal Volker Steffens wrote an open letter which was read out in most classes ("These students destroy the peace of school life if they approve of the murder. We do not tolerate agitation against freedom."). This triggered a nationwide reaction in the media and a renewed discussion about a compulsory subject of values ​​studies at Berlin schools. Federal President Horst Köhler thanked Steffens in a letter from July 2005 for his commitment and noted: "A wrong understanding of tolerance, striving for harmony or a lack of courage must not lead to the fundamental rules of coexistence in our society being overridden". The students received a warning .

On February 22, 2005, a vigil took place at the crime scene , attended by around 100 people with and without a migrant background. The Berlin Lesbian and Gay Association had called for her. Another vigil initiated by politicians and artists took place on February 24th. Politicians and women's rights activists demanded a clear statement from Turkish and Islamic associations in Germany on the subject of “honor killing”. On March 5th, more than a thousand people, called by Terre des Femmes and almost all Berlin women's associations inside and outside the parties, demonstrated against the “honor killing” at Neukölln town hall . On March 8, 2005, International Women's Day , protests were held in many German cities against the murder of Sürücü and against the crime of so-called honor killings. The Kurdish politician Giyasettin Sayan accused the organizers of not having invited Kurdish representatives. Sayan said: "We are all from Turkey , but we are not all Turks." - even if a differentiation would relieve the real Turks .

The motto “Never forget Hatun!” Campaign against honor killings became the leitmotif of a conference of Muslim women's rights activists organized by Terre des Femmes, Women's Liberation — Iran , No Shari'a — International Campaign Against Shari'a Court in Cologne on International Women's Day 2006 Canada and the International Committee against Stoning was supported. On the 2nd anniversary of his death in 2007, the Berlin parliamentary group of the Greens organized a vigil at the crime scene. No representative of the Turkish associations was present at this commemoration, which was subsequently regretted on their part.

Memorial stone

Memorial stone on the corner of Oberlandstrasse and Oberlandgarten with wreaths and flowers on the 10th anniversary of death in February 2015

Despite a decision by the District Assembly in mid-2006, no plaque was attached to her apartment in 2007. Flowers and other souvenirs at the scene of the crime were regularly removed by strangers that same night. On the third anniversary, the lack of a memorial plaque was criticized at a vigil. The property management had agreed in principle to a memorial plaque, but only wanted to tolerate it about 100 meters away from the crime scene.

Following an initiative by the then District Mayor Ekkehard Band (SPD), a rock with a plaque was placed in front of the house on the corner of Oberlandstrasse / Oberlandgarten ( Lage ) in June 2008 . It reads the following text in German and Turkish: “Here Hatun Sürücü (born 1982) was murdered on February 7, 2005, because she did not submit to coercion and oppression from her family, but led a self-determined life. In memory of them and the other victims of violence against women in this city. ”After a long debate, the Tempelhof-Schöneberg District Assembly unanimously approved the text. However, the plaque initially indicated a wrong year of birth (1983 instead of 1982), the date was corrected in 2013.

Soon after the murder, all tenants moved out of the apartment building, which was later renovated.

family

In the summer of 2006, the then 16-year-old sister Songül Sürücü was deregistered from the Eberhard Klein School because she was moving to Turkey voluntarily. According to educators, the indication of voluntariness seems unbelievable because during the court process she “asked a teacher how she could break out of home”. Hatun Sürücü's son Can now lives with a foster family. Hatun Sürücü's sister Arzu Sürücü announced that she would apply for custody of Can. If the family court rejects the application, the biological father, who lives in Istanbul, should receive custody. Politicians from all parliamentary groups in the Berlin House of Representatives , such as Özcan Mutlu (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Giyasettin Sayan ( Linkspartei.PDS ), Berlin's youth senator Klaus Böger ( SPD ) or Friedbert Pflüger ( CDU ), criticized the Sürücü family's intention to grant custody request. The chances of this were judged by lawyers to be very slim. On December 20, 2006, the Tempelhof-Kreuzberg District Court rejected the murdered s sister's application for custody of her surviving son. Sister Arzu Sürücü appealed against this court decision, which was rejected on July 24, 2007 by the Berlin Regional Court .

Hatun Sürücü's tombstone at the Gatow Landscape Cemetery

Four years after the funeral, in March 2009, it became known that the cost of the Hatun Sürücüs tombstone had not been paid by the family. The grave is on the Islamic part of the Gatow landscape cemetery , Block 14, grave site 95 (near Gatow in the south of the Spandau district and north of Potsdam). Hatun Sürücü's grave is not maintained (as of 2015).

Giyasettin Sayan , member of the party in the Berlin Parliament and refugee policy spokesman Die Linke , had in August 2011 again point out that the brothers Ayhan, Mutlu and her father an ideological indoctrination in the Ashab-ı-Kehf Mosque in Berlin-Gesundbrunnen had received . Some members of this small congregation had shown solidarity with the preacher Metin Kaplan , who had been expelled from Germany , and their members are generally considered to be “extreme ideologues”. Ayhan Sürücü also took part in events organized by the now banned Islamist organization Hizb ut-Tahrir . Ayhan Sürücü only made his first friendship with a German while in custody. He sees himself as a “completely normal Muslim who lives his religion and wants to get along with his fellow men”. In the detention center, he was elected inmate spokesman.

Legal proceedings

First trial

In July 2005, the Berlin public prosecutor's office brought charges against the three brothers of those killed for collective murder, accusing them of low motives and insidious conduct.

According to the investigation, the motive was an offended family honor. The brothers were ashamed of the sister who lived on her own and did not wear a headscarf . They also feared that she would not raise their son according to the traditions. The oldest defendant Mutlu (* 1980) is said to have obtained the weapon and the middle brother Alpaslan (* 1981) provided “moral support” near the crime scene.

On September 14, 2005, the youngest brother Ayhan (* 1986) confessed to the murder. On March 9, 2006, he tried to escape while on a prisoner transport. This was the first attempt to escape from a prisoner transport in Berlin since 1987. On April 5, 2007, Ayhan Sürücü was convicted again and received a three-month extension for a brawl in the juvenile detention center, prison mutiny and drug possession.

Trial observers such as lawyer Ulrike Zecher and sociologist Necla Kelek see the youngest brother's confession as a tactic to relieve the family as the responsible authority. The social scientist Ahmet Toprak also assumes that the whole family was involved in the case. Her colleague Werner Schiffauer , on the other hand, denies the motive of “honor killing”, which he considers too undifferentiated.

On February 11, 2005, Ayhan received a gold wristwatch from his father. According to the investigators, devout Muslim families see a watch as a gift from the father for the son as rewarding and enhancing. Every time when the main witness and her mother with bodyguards and bulletproof vests entered the courtroom, the defendant Ayhan Sürücü rolled up his sleeve and showed demonstratively his gold watch. The daily newspaper Die Welt wrote in 2006 that Ayhan Sürücü had "long since become an idol with many young Turks and Kurds" and that he had a " martyr position" with other inmates in the Kieferngrund juvenile detention center. He was "revered as a hero by many Muslim inmates."

The defense tried to shake the credibility of the main witness Melek (* 1987) with more than ten hours of questioning and expert opinions in order to corroborate the thesis of sole perpetrator. The main witness and her mother are under a witness protection program . Just because of the testimony of Melek, who at the time of the crime was the friend of the confessing Ayhan Sürücü, the public prosecutor was able to bring charges. Judge Michael Degreif certified her in his judgment that she was "in principle a credible witness". However, the chairman justified the acquittal of the two older brothers solely by stating that the witness’s statements were insufficient to prove that the co-defendants were responsible. On the other hand, trial observers criticized a lack of thoroughness in the conduct of the trial by him and especially by his predecessor Heinz-Peter Plefka, who went into early retirement in December 2005. Only towards the end of the process was there increasing criticism of the negligent conduct of the process. It was criticized, for example, that references to the use of sexual violence against Hatun Sürücü were not followed up and that the presiding judge did not adequately regulate threats made by the defendants during the trial. Neclá Kelek made the most serious accusation: "... the court, if it had dealt more closely with the act and the motives, could well have come to further conclusions with the means of the code of criminal procedure than just reconstructing the actual course of events."

According to the Berlin state parliament member Evrim Baba (spokesperson for women's affairs for the Left Party.PDS in the Berlin House of Representatives), Melek will have to expect something to happen to her for the rest of her life.

judgment

On April 13, 2006, the Berlin district court sentenced the youngest defendant Ayhan Sürücü to a youth sentence of nine years and three months and acquitted the two co-accused older brothers, Alpaslan and Mutlu Sürücü, for lack of evidence. The public prosecutor appealed to the Berlin Regional Court on an appeal against the judgment, which was negotiated by the 5th Criminal Senate of the Federal Court of Justice in Leipzig on August 28, 2007.

The judgment met with divided reactions in the media and the specialist public. Politicians like Cem Özdemir and the orientalist Hans-Peter Raddatz criticized the judge's verdict as too lenient. Berlin's Interior Senator Körting , on the other hand, welcomed the judgment as an expression of a functioning constitutional state. Nevertheless, he advised the Sürücü family to leave Germany. In contrast, the General Secretary of the Turkish Community in Berlin, Celal Atac, said: "As outsiders, we cannot see what is going on in the family."

The Berlin CDU parliamentary group called for a change in criminal law for juvenile offenders, since being of legal age also requires full criminal liability. The SPD parliamentary group, on the other hand, called for forced marriages to be included in the criminal code as particularly serious cases of coercion . Sibylle Schreiber von Terre des Femmes said that the verdict was a wrong signal for perpetrators and called for an end to the tolerance of Germans towards the " parallel societies ". The Turkish daily newspapers Milliyet and Hürriyet distanced themselves from the verdict by quoting critical statements from Turkish citizens and through their own critical comments in which the verdict was assessed as too mild.

Migration politicians such as Ekin Deligöz , deputy chairwoman of the family committee in the Bundestag (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen) and Sidar Demirdögen, then chairwoman of the Federal Association of Women Migrants , warned against a blanket campaign against foreigners. The political debate about how to better support the integration of migrants intensified . Contrary to the demands of leading politicians for a tightening of criminal law and for more expulsion, Deligöz relied on “kindergartens, as early as possible and as long as possible, language courses in which the children also learn social behavior. And Islamic religious instruction that is not left uncontrolled to the Islamic associations. ”Federal Minister of the Interior Schäuble announced an increase in the annual budget of 140 million euros for language courses if these were not enough.

On July 4, 2014, Ayhan Sürücü was deported to Turkey by plane immediately after he had ended his detention . According to the Berlin immigration authorities, he did not show any “plausible remorse” during his imprisonment, although he was able to complete psychotherapy and a three-year apprenticeship as a carpenter during this time. Ayhan Sürücü, on the other hand, “had a deal with Germany”, as he was not granted any relief from prison. Since then he has lived in his brother Mutlu's house in Istanbul- Ümraniye , where he runs a Köfte snack bar that his brother Mutlu set up for him. A former inmate said: “In Germany he can't do anything with the name.” In early 2015 he said on his Facebook page “Hateful comments against women and Germany” and mocked the victims of the Charlie Hebdo editorial team ; soon afterwards this page was no longer available.

Revision

On August 28, 2007, the judgment of the Berlin Regional Court, insofar as the two older brothers had been acquitted, was overturned by the 5th Criminal Senate of the Federal Court of Justice in Leipzig. The BGH objected to the assessment of the evidence as legally flawed. When evaluating the evidence of exposure, the regional court had partially assumed incorrect requirements for the formation of convictions. The regional court essentially based its appraisal on the information provided by the former friend Ayhan Sürücü as a so-called hearsay witness and did not take sufficient account of the fact that Ayhan Sürücü himself confirmed her information, even if he no longer wanted to apply them in terms of content. The discussion of the central question of whether Ayhan Sürücü actually told the untruth to his girlfriend at the time, whom he trusted completely, remained incomplete. Not all circumstances that could stand in the way of this have been discussed by the regional court. In addition, there were gaps in the assessment of the evidence, since, for example, a text message from Ayhan Sürücü to his brother Alpaslan was not taken into account a few minutes after the crime.

In the oral justification for the judgment, the chairman criticized a “thoroughgoing weakness” of the judgment despite the “efforts to be thorough” in a “delicate” and “particularly complicated” evidence.

The case was referred back to another criminal chamber of the Berlin Regional Court for renewed trial and decision. Seyran Ateş commented positively on the decision and hoped that more information about the cultural background of the crime would become known in the new negotiation. Politicians from all parliamentary parties as well as representatives of German-Turkish organizations welcomed the reversal of the first-instance verdict with rare unanimity.

The two suspect brothers, who were initially acquitted, were in Turkey at the time. Only Mutlu Sürücü had German citizenship. In order to be able to open a new procedure, an international arrest warrant was requested and issued via Interpol. In the Alpaslan Sürücü case, his Turkish citizenship meant that he could only hand the proceedings over to Turkey. Since the Turkish authorities refused to extradite Alpaslan and Mutlu Sürücü, the Berlin public prosecutor closed the case in 2008.

Sürücü's sister-in-law, the wife of Alpaslan Sürücü, was accused by the public prosecutor's office of making false statements in the murder trial. She gave her husband a false alibi. Because of his stay in Turkey and since no trial has been opened against him so far, the allegation could not be heard. She is now divorced from him and does not want to move in with him.

First trial in Turkey

In July 2013, eight years after Sürücü's murder, the Turkish authorities officially opened an investigation into the two suspects, Alpaslan and Mutlu Sürücü, who lived in Turkey. At the end of July 2015, it became known that two of Sürücü's brothers were charged with murder in Turkey. On March 10, 2015, the Istanbul Prosecutor General brought charges before the 10th Chamber of the Istanbul Jury Court. The Berlin judiciary had provided the Turkish authorities with all the documents relating to the case. In January 2016, both brothers were tried in Istanbul. They were accused of hiring the youngest brother to kill Sürücü and of having obtained the murder weapon. Mutlu Sürücü insulted the media during the start of the trial and spoke of a conspiracy: “You wretched dogs! Through your troublemaking, our acquittals have been overturned. "

Sürücü biographer Jo Goll and German lawyer Seyran Ateş were among the trial observers . She criticized the conduct of the trial by the judges as biased after the first day of the trial, as they were too lenient towards the accused. According to Goll, according to a statistical survey from 2014, an average of six women are killed by their families or their husbands every week in Turkey. Again, the further course of the process depends on the appearance of the main witness Melek A., who was already highly traumatized by the first trial. At that time she was wearing “a bulletproof vest, because she was massively attacked and threatened by the entire Sürücü family.” While the court was still trying to summon the main witness, the defense filed a motion in mid-February 2017, the previously imposed ban on leaving the country against the two brothers to be canceled again.

After the main witness failed to appear in court, both defendants were acquitted in May 2017 in Istanbul for lack of evidence. The Istanbul trial was criticized as "a poor copy of the Berlin trial". Seyran Ateş also accused the Istanbul court of having passed a "political judgment". According to German standards, the constitutional taking of evidence was very poor. The Berlin Senator for Women at the time, Dilek Kolat (SPD), said she was “very disappointed” with the verdict, as she considers the two brothers “to be the real culprits”. Public prosecutor Eyüp Kara lodged a complaint against the judgment in July 2017 and called for a new trial in Turkey.

Second trial in Turkey

On February 22, 2018, it became known that an appeal court in Istanbul had decided to reopen the trial against the Sürücü brothers based on a complaint from the Turkish Ministry of Family Affairs. The family ministry was not informed of the start of the Istanbul process. According to Turkish law, however, a representative should have attended. The first trial date has not yet been announced.

Effects

The murder of Hatun Sürücü sparked a broad political and social debate about the social circumstances that led to her murder. The Turkish Association of Berlin-Brandenburg presented on the occasion of the murder and which then flared up public discussion a ten-point plan on 4 March 2005 to combat intolerance towards women before. In it the association demands u. a. a “strict prosecution of forced marriage ” and a “public and active commitment by all Turkish and Islamic organizations to the right of women to self-determination ”.

One year after the murder of Sürücü, all German and Turkish representatives of organizations that were more closely concerned with her death and his social backgrounds emphasized that a slow rethinking on the German and Turkish-Kurdish sides had meanwhile started. This is only a beginning, but after forty years of Turkish-Kurdish migration to Germany it is still a hopeful prospect.

With reference to her murder, there has been compulsory ethics classes in Berlin from 7th to 10th grade since 2006 . A church initiative (“ Pro Reli ”) wanted to abolish this regulation in 2009 in favor of an elective subject religion / ethics from 1st grade onwards. The referendum was unsuccessful.

The then integration commissioner of the Berlin Senate, Günter Piening, said in February 2007 that since the murder of Hatun Sürücü, young Turkish and Kurdish women have increasingly sought state advice. The growing interest in advice contrasts with the increasing savings at the expense of these women's projects. Representatives of the Turkish Federation of Berlin-Brandenburg (TBB) go to schools, discuss with students and discuss topics such as honor, gender roles and tradition in forums .

The Turkish-Islamic Union of the Institute for Religion (DITIB) said that their imams spoke more sensitively about women's rights in the sermons of Friday prayers . Specialist conferences on violence and domestic violence were held and there are now 13 Muslim women preachers.

Another consequence of Hatun Sürücü's murder was the founding of the (now dissolved) women's aid organization “Hatun und Can e. V. “for women of all nationalities threatened by violence. Affected women should be helped quickly, unbureaucratically and financially in crises, such as when moving from Berlin. The women's rights activist and lawyer Seyran Ateş initially commented positively on this initiative: “I bow to these young women. What they do is fantastic. […] This moral courage and help is exactly what is needed and what I would have wished for from Turkish associations. ”In April 2007, the Turkish Association of Berlin-Brandenburg (TBB) decided to set up the emergency aid association“ Hatun und Can e. V. "to support personnel, financially and organizationally. In March 2010, the founder of the association was arrested and charged by the Berlin public prosecutor's office with fraudulent conduct. In September 2011, he was sentenced in the first instance for donation fraud to a prison term of four years and ten months. The Berlin Regional Court saw it as proven that he had stolen donations of around 700,000 euros with false claims and used them for his own purposes. The association only served as a construct to collect donations. The police were able to secure 360,000 euros and a 60,000 euros car, but the whereabouts of the remaining money has not been clarified. There would be a gap in coverage between the donation income and the expenses determined and the defendant made a good living from the donations. The court was convinced that few women actually received financial or other assistance.

The murder of Sürücü was also the reason for the Her Freedom campaign - my honor to the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and migrant organizations from November 2006, in which young Turks and Kurds stand up for the freedom of their sisters.

In 2010, the question of renaming a Berlin street in memory of Hatun Sürücü was a controversial issue. Associations such as Terre des Femmes and the then Berlin integration officer Günter Piening supported this demand. On May 2, 2013, the Tempelhof-Schöneberg Culture Committee voted by a majority in favor of an application by the CDU to name a bridge from the crime scene Oberlandstrasse to Tempelhofer Feld after Hatun Sürücü. She should be recognized for her "courage and responsibility". The bridge should be built "from around 2016". But because of the successful referendum against the development of the Tempelhofer Feld on May 25, 2014, the construction project was discontinued.

For the film drama Die Fremde from 2010, which is about an “honor killing” of a young mother, the director Feo Aladag was guided by several criminal cases, including the case of the Sürücü family.

On the initiative of Giovanna Krüger and Murat Dogan , the Berlin football club Türkiyemspor Berlin organized the “Hatun Sürücü Days” from January 26 to February 7, 2013 with a football tournament for all Kreuzberg women's teams and a panel discussion on women's roles. In 2015, the women and girls department of Türkiyemspor Berlin organized the football tournament in memory of Hatun Sürücü for the third time. In an event, self-developed role-playing games on the subject of “family, honor and prejudice” were presented.

The Neukölln anti-violence project Heroes   , launched in 2007, took part in the annual memorial vigil on February 7th at the crime scene next to the then Interior Senator Frank Henkel , who then visited the Heroes in their project site. In 2015 they took part again with a wreath-laying ceremony and took part in an event in Schöneberg Town Hall. There they presented role plays "with which they encourage young people in Berlin schools to think about outdated role models."

The Berlin parliamentary group Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen has been awarding an honorary prize, the Hatun Sürücü Prize , every year since 2013 , to projects and initiatives that “support the independence of girls and young women in a special way”.

At the 2015 commemoration event on the 10th anniversary of Sürücü's murder, Dilek Kolat , the then Berlin Senator for Labor, Women and Integration, spoke among others , calling for stricter laws against forced marriages. She also called on the Islamic associations to stop tolerating preachers hostile to women.

In February 2018, the Berlin Transport Senate selected its name for a new motorway bridge to Sonnenallee near the Hotel Estrel from several district proposals . According to Jörg Steinert ( LGBT ), the other proposals were dead ends in industrial areas. The Berlin Green MP Susanna Kahlefeld rejected this election as "insanely dreary, sad, callous". In contrast, the then Neukölln district mayor Franziska Giffey (SPD) supported the choice of location. At the end of February 2019, the bridge and three other Neukölln bridges were opened to traffic without a ceremonial name.

On the occasion of the annual wreath-laying ceremony in February 2019, the district mayor Angelika Schöttler (SPD) and the head of the district council assembly of Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Stefan Böltes (SPD), drew attention to the fact that the district had written to teachers “on the problem of forced marriage during the summer vacation ”wants to draw attention. According to investigations by the Berlin Working Group against Forced Marriage , a total of 570 cases of attempted or successful forced marriage in Berlin became known in 2017.

The life of Hatun Sürücü was filmed in 2018 in the docu-drama " Nur eine Frau " by the director Sherry Hormann . The book by Jo Goll and Matthias Deiß "Ehrenmord - Ein deutsches Schicksal" (2011) served as a template for the script . The film drama had its cinema premiere at the Berlinale 2019 . It was first broadcast on television a week before the 15th anniversary of her death on January 29, 2020 on the first German television in prime time .

On the 15th anniversary of her murder (2020), representatives of aid projects for girls and women called for more financial support. All corresponding advice centers and protection facilities suffer from permanent underfunding. Because of this, many girls would have to go back to the violent family.

Memorials

Hatun-Sürücü-Bridge in 2020
  • Gravestone at the Landscape Cemetery Berlin (Gatow)
  • Memorial stone on Oberlandstrasse at the corner of Oberlandgarten with a memorial plaque (see above section memorial stone ).
  • Hatun-Sürücü-Brücke in Berlin (Neukölln), Sonnenallee , bridge over the A 100 motorway , named on the 13th anniversary of death on February 7, 2018 (see section Effects above ).

Reception in the media

Filmography

Radio contributions

drama

literature

Press article

Reports

dossier

Interviews

process

Web links

Commons : Hatun Sürücü  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Hatun Sürücü  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Matthias Deiß, Jo Goll: Ehrenmord: Ein deutsches Schicksal . Ed .: Hoffmann and Campe. 2011, ISBN 978-3-455-50237-4 , pp. 17 .
  2. ↑ Matthias Deiß, Jo Goll: Ehrenmord: Ein deutsches Schicksal . Ed .: Hoffmann and Campe. 2011, ISBN 978-3-455-50237-4 , pp. 200 .
  3. ↑ Sabine Beikler: Sürücü murder comes back to court . In: Der Tagesspiegel , August 19, 2007.
  4. ↑ Murat Tosun: Töre cinayetinin anatomisi. In: Hürriyet , February 7, 2005.
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h Sabine Deckwerth, Frank Nordhausen: The second life of Hatun Sürücü . In: Berliner Zeitung , March 4, 2005.
  6. ↑ a b c d e f Matthias Deiß , Jo Goll : This is how Ayhan Sürücü killed his sister Hatun . In: Die Welt , July 26, 2011.
  7. ↑ a b c d Katja Füchsel, Werner van Bebber: Where memory lives . In: Der Tagesspiegel , February 5, 2006.
  8. ↑ Sabine am Orde: The burden of the witness Melek A. In: taz , September 27, 2005.
  9. ↑ Matthias Deiß , Jo Goll : Ehrenmord. A German fate. 2011, ISBN 978-3-455-50237-4 , p. 93.
  10. ^ A b Katrin Bischoff: Honor killing Hatun Sürücü in Berlin. Hatun Sürücü had to die because of her lifestyle. In: Berliner Zeitung , February 6, 2015.
  11. ↑ Robin Avram: "Many Sürücüs believe to this day: It was a just punishment." ( Memento from February 15, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ) In: rbb , February 4, 2015, page 3, interview with Matthias Deiß and Jo Goll .
  12. ↑ A film is reminiscent of Hatun Sürücü. ( Memento from February 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). In: Sabah , February 6, 2012.
  13. ↑ Ulrike Beseke, Lydia Völker: Gülsah S. on the "honor killing": "Your brother has sexually molested you." In: Stern TV / RTL , April 19, 2006, interview.
  14. ↑ Dirk Banse, Tanja Laninger: Murder motif: blood for honor. Since October six women have had to die in Berlin because they wanted to be free. In: Die Welt , February 16, 2005.
    Katja Bauer: Three brothers accused of murdering their sister. In: Badische Zeitung , July 9, 2005, (PDF; 33 kB).
  15. ↑ Tobias Miller, Anne Vorbringer, Sarah Raich: “We do not tolerate agitation”. In: Berliner Zeitung , February 18, 2005.
  16. ↑ Mark Siemons: "Honor killings". The motive for crime was culture. In: FAZ , March 3, 2005, p. 37.
  17. ↑ Andrea Naica-Loebell: Tatmotiv honor. In: Telepolis , March 8, 2006.
  18. ^ Conference on honor killings on March 8th, on International Women's Day in Cologne. ( Memento of September 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ). In: Terre des Femmes , March 2006.
  19. ↑ Hatun, unforgotten . In: Der Tagesspiegel , February 8, 2007.
  20. ↑ Hatice Kılıçer, Annette Kögel: Sürücü- Mahnwache : Turkish clubs regret their absence . In: Der Tagesspiegel , February 9, 2007.
  21. ↑ Planned memorial plaque for Hatun Sürücü. ( Memento from September 14, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ). In: RBB , June 27, 2006.
  22. ↑ Roman Schmidseder: The grief fades. ( Memento from January 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). In: taz-Berlin , February 7, 2007.
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personal data
SURNAME Sürücü, Hatun
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sürücü, Hatun Aynur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trainees of Kurdish origin who fell victim to a so-called honor killing
DATE OF BIRTH 17th January 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 2005
Place of death Berlin