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Oya Budak, just 18, was already carrying a nightmare no one should endure. Violently raped in Istanbul, she was left pregnant by her attacker, a predator now locked away for his string of sexual assaults. But the real gut-punch came from the man she was supposed to marry.
Her fiancé, a 19-year-old coward whose name doesn’t deserve ink, found out about the rape and the five-and-a-half-month pregnancy it left behind. He responded by firing a bullet to Oya’s chest and ear in a so-called “honor killing” that reeks of anything but.
The kid was lured to her death, conned into a meeting by her ex-fiancé’s crocodile tears, promising a heart-to-heart. Instead, he pulled a gun and ended her life in a flash of rage and betrayal. She was rushed to a hospital, chest torn open, but neither Oya nor her unborn child made it out alive.
The suspect was nabbed by cops shortly after, reportedly spilling his guts in a confession that does nothing to wash the blood off his hands.“When she said she was in pain, her fiancé took her to the hospital and learned she was pregnant,” her grandfather, Orhan, told reporters, his voice no doubt cracking under the weight of grief.
Even Oya’s own family hadn’t known about the rape or the pregnancy until it was too late.
The killer’s family, spineless as their son, demanded he ditch the engagement, as if Oya’s suffering was her fault.This wasn’t just a murder, it was femicide number 209 in Turkey this year, a country where women’s lives are too often snuffed out by the men closest to them.
In 2024 alone, 420 women were killed by partners, exes, or others in their inner circle, and the numbers keep climbing. Women’s groups are screaming into the void, accusing the fundamentalist government of looking the other way while blood stains the streets. They’re not wrong.
On Sunday, the Governor’s Office had the gall to ban International Women’s Day protests and marches in Istanbul. But the women aren’t backing down. “We have walked for 19 years and will walk on the 20th year, too,” they declared, defiance burning through their words.
They’re fighting not just for Oya, but for the growing number of young girls caught in this epidemic of violence, a crisis that’s become Turkey’s shame, debated in whispers and shouts across the nation.
Oya Budak deserved better. She deserved a life, not a headline. But in a world where “honor” is a loaded gun, her story is another wound that won’t heal.
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