Turkish father goes on trial over son’s gay “honour killing”
— DPA reports: “A Turkish father accused of murdering his homosexual son in a so-called ‘honour killing’ went on trial in the Uskudar municipality of Istanbul Tuesday.”
— “Yahya Yildiz, 49 – who is on the run and is being tried in absentia – is accused of shooting his 26-year-old son Ahmet in June 2008 after the latter told him about his relationship with a man from Cologne in Germany. ”
— “Ibrahim Can, the victim’s German-Turkish boyfriend, demanded that those who had helped the murderer also be prosecuted. But, he said, ‘my expectations from the trial are minimal’. ”