Hatun Sürücü

Hatun "Aynur" Sürücü (also spelled Hatin Sürücü; January 17, 1982, in Berlin – February 7, 2005, in Berlin) was a Turkish-Kurdish woman living in Germany whose family was originally from Erzurum, Turkey. She was murdered at the age of 23 in Berlin, by her own youngest brother, in an honor killing. Sürücü had divorced the cousin she was forced to marry at the age of 16, and was reportedly dating a German man. Her murder inflamed a public debate over forced marriage in Muslim families.

Sürücü was sent to her ancestral village by her family and forced to marry a cousin there at the age of 16. She gave birth to a son, Can, in 1999. In October 1999, she fled her parents' home in Berlin, finding refuge in a home for underage mothers. She attended school, and had moved into her own apartment in the Tempelhof neighborhood of Berlin. At the time of her murder, she was at the end of her training to become an electrician.

On February 7, 2005, at a bus stop near her apartment, she was killed by three gunshots to the head. The police arrested three of her brothers on February 14. After several weeks of news coverage, the media began to label the motive of the murder an honor killing, since Hatun had received threats and reported them to police before she was killed.

In July 2005, the Berlin Public Prosecutor's office charged Sürücü's brothers with her murder. On September 14, 2005, Ayhan Sürücü, the youngest brother, confessed to murdering his sister.

In April 2006, Ayhan was sentenced to nine years and three months in prison, and his two older brothers were acquitted of charges of conspiring to murder their sister. The prosecution appealed on a point of law at the Federal Court of Justice, the Bundesgerichtshof, immediately and the 5th criminal division of the Federal Court of Justice overturned the conviction and allowed the revision. A new criminal proceeding was to take place in August 2008.

After complete serving his sentence, Ayhan Sürücü was released from prison on July 4, 2014, deported from Germany and immediately brought to Turkey.

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