Özet:

Suicide can be defined as a volunteer and intentional attack of the individual to kill himself / herself. It is known that the pressure caused by social environment has a significant role having suicides. Namely, social, cultural and some other components are the main variants effecting suicide. It can be said that ‘custom’ which is one of cultural elements has the power to effect the suicides. If an action of a person –especially women– is not appropriate to ‘custom’ then the custom pressure become effective and either the person ‘re–organize’ himself / herself according to custom or commits suicide to save the honor of his / her tribe, family or clan. Despite the fact most of the time that condition is considered and reflected as suicide, indeed it is either a ‘homicide of custom’ or ‘homicide of honor’. It is also possible that sometimes some criminal homicides are covered as if they are suicide. It is known that a certain amount of suicides which are known by media and registered in criminal records are indeed homicides of custom. If a person is considered to be killed according to the necessity of custom most of the time he / she is killed by very young teenagers and ‘honor is saved’

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