— Daily Mail: “Missing girl was victim of honour killing, claims mother”
— Daily Mail reports:
— “A mother broke a ten-year silence to claim her teenage daughter was murdered in an ‘honour killing’, a court heard yesterday.”
— “Tulay Goren, 15, was allegedly killed by her father and buried in his garden after he learnt she was in a sexual relationship with a man twice her age.”
— “Mehmet Goren, 49, with the help of at least one of his brothers, then allegedly dug up her remains in Woodford Green, East London, and disposed of them a week later. Her body has never been found.”
— “Tulay’s mother Hanim lived with the dark family secret and at first misled police because she was scared for her safety, said Jonathan Laidlaw, QC, prosecuting.”
— “Tulay’s father and his brothers Ali, 55, and Cuma Goren, 42, both of Walthamstow, East London, yesterday appeared at the Old Bailey accused of the schoolgirl’s murder on January 7, 1999, and the attempted murder of her boyfriend Halil Unal, now 41. All three deny both charges.”
— “Tulay was living with Mr Unal and had even tried to marry him, but was too young.”
— “But after losing her virginity Tulay was seen as a ‘valueless commodity’, the court heard.”
— “Her father and uncles, who came to Britain as political refugees from Turkey in the early 1990s, are alleged to have decided in a ‘family council’ to kill the pair.”
— “Mr Unal was a Turkish Sunni Muslim but the Gorens were from the Alevi branch of the faith and an Alevi-Sunni relationship ‘would not have been tolerated’, jurors heard.”

— Additional Reports
— Reuters: Father accused of daughter’s “honour killing”
— Guardian: Mother to give evidence in ‘honour killing’ trial
— London Times: Knives and bin-bags vanished, garden was dug over, says ‘honour killing’ wife