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...part of its bid to meet E.U. standards, Turkey last year approved legislation making "honor killings" - the practice of men killing their female relatives for perceived immoral behavior - punishable by life in prison. But a growing number of female suicides in southeastern Turkey, the country's poorest and most conservative region, this year has raised suspicion that women are now being forced to kill themselves to spare their male relatives a jail term. In the province of Batman (pop. 500,000) hospital records show there have been 31 attempted female suicides this year, already more than last year's total...
...does affect the way candidates are seen--all the more so when the other side of that campaign is constantly painting negative caricatures. But the second answer is, I've been though a lot in the last six years, and the old cliché, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger, sometimes has a grain of truth...
...trained to make the deliberate distinction between friend and foe and are aware that the enemy has completely mixed into the civilian population. Marine Sergeant Eddie Wright, who lost both hands in a rocket-propelled-grenade attack in Fallujah two years ago, said it's natural "to want to kill the guys who killed your buddy." But, he adds, "you don't lash out at innocent people...
...myself, if just one person, just one, comes up to me and asks me if I need help, I'll tell [them]everything. And this beautiful woman walked up to me, and she goes, "Will you take my picture?" And I thought, "What? Lady, I'm going to kill myself, are you crazy?" But she had sunglasses on, her hair blowing in the wind, she was a tourist, all she could see was this guy standing right where she wanted her picture taken. I must have taken five pictures of this lady. She had no clue...
...four-second fall, and in those four seconds I said, "God, please save me." I had no idea that you could jump off the Golden Gate Bridge and live. That was foreign to me. You see these websites, they say, "If you want to kill yourself, go to the Golden Gate Bridge." I'm trying to shut them down...