Kills wife for having another girl, doesn't know biology

Ankara -- Try telling 29-year-old Veysi Turan of Turkey that it's the man's chromosomes that determine the gender of the child. A woman has the "X" chromosome and the man has both "X" and "Y" chromosomes. If his X combines with his wife's, the child is a girl. If his Y combines with her X, it's a boy. But only the man's sperm can determine the outcome.

Turan's wife gave birth to their second child, another girl. 

So he killed her. 

The method was electrocution and it was premeditated. He bought insulated gloves and cables to kill her the day after their daughter was born. But being a good citizen, while Turan was murdering his wife, 32-year-old Mubarek Turan, he was on the phone with the police telling them what he was in the process of doing.

The conversation went like this: 

"I killed someone," he told the operator."Who did you kill?" the officer asked."I am killing my wife right now.""Did you kill her or are you killing her?""Well, she isn't dead yet. But I am killing her if the murder is halal," Turan said.The officer asked if he had a problem with his wife."I am telling you that I killed my wife but you are asking what the problem was." Then he said, "I closed her mouth as she is in the throes of death."The officer then snapped, "Okay, wait. I am sending a unit."

A defense lawyer told the court that Turan killed his wife because she gave birth to "a girl once again." He also criticized the police for failing to talk Turan out of his crime--the lawyer must be a liberal.

"If a police officer with a high persuasive capacity and training were on the phone, [the woman] would be alive today." And possibly be living the life of a head of cabbage since Turan was killing her when he phoned.

Turan worked as a waiter at a restaurant in a Kurdish-majority region. He has a 4-year-old daughter but he wanted a boy, I suspect.

How very horrible . . . if only Turan understood biology, but still, he may have killed himself.


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