An unknown, 45 year old turkish man, does not allow his German citizen daughter to return to Germany with her fiance. This man took his daughter's passport, return flight ticket, and deserted her with some relatives in Turkey once he found out she was to be married to a non-muslim man.
This daughter, who's name is unknown, was visiting Turkey with her fiance, when her father was angered and forced his daughter's German fiance to return to Germany alone. When the fiance landed back in Germany, and was not followed by his fiance as scheduled, he contacted authorities and informed them of his fiance's father's rage, and the possibility of kidnapping. When the father returned to Germany, he was detained by authorities, and the daughter was allowed to return to Germany to be reunited with her fiance.
The prosecuter of this case, Bettina Vetter, did not release any names in this case.
I am outraged by this incident. I disagree completely with the father holding his daughter just because of her choice in spouse. I believe it is her choice to be with who she pleases, and the fact that she is 25 years old justifies her decision making capabilities even more. This article reinforces the common knowledge of how women in middle eastern countries are poorly treated as if they are property. That is a horrible way to live, and that thought process needs to be changed.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,411623,00.html
2 comments:
I agree that the father had no right to kidnap his daugther. I can not say that I am very surprised by his actions seeing that they girl is from the Middle East. Like you stated in your blog, women in the middle east are not given the opportunties we as American women take for granted. I suppose in the Middle East, it would not be seen as outragous that a 25-year-old woman was kidnaped by her family for marrying outside of his ethnicity or culture.
(This comment is directed at both the previous comment on this entry and the entry itself.)
I think this is an interesting entry, but I was bothered by the finishing lines about Middle Eastern countries 'treating women as if they are property'.
Middle Eastern countries have their issues with gender equality, same as anywhere you can think of (the US included). There are employment biases and your pay may be less if you're a woman. Literacy among women is lower than among men in some places, and laws (religious ones?) CAN be abused to limit the freedom of women. There are definitely issues there that need to be worked on.
But I feel that to say that all women are treated like the one in this entry is overgeneralizing. It wouldn't be big news if this was a hugely commonplace occurrence, right? Granted, the fact that she was from Germany made it an international news story, but still.
To be honest, my family is Middle Eastern (though not Turkish), and so maybe that's why I'm feeling particularly defensive. But I think the statement was a bit strong, that's all. Hope I didn't offend.
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