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BRIDE'S BROTHER RECEIVES LIFE SENTENCE FOR KILLING NEWLYWEDS
Today's Zaman
http://www.sundayszaman.com/sunday/newsDetail_getNewsById.action?newsId=277700
April 17 2012
Turkey
Gönay Ogmen has been given an aggravated life sentence by the
İstanbul 1st Criminal High Court on Monday for killing his sister,
Sonay Vural, and brother-in-law, Zekeriya Vural.
The young couple was found dead in their car in İstanbul's Fatih
district 10 days after they had been married. It was later discovered
that they had been murdered by the bride's brother because of religious
differences.
Sonay Ogmen (age 26), whose family was Armenian, married Zekeriya Vural
(age 29) against her family's wishes. The young couple was found dead
in their automobile, each with a bullet to the forehead.
Police later established that the couple had been killed by someone
who sitting in the back seat of the vehicle and concluded that the
murderer was someone they knew. Sonay's brother later confessed and
said in his testimony to police, "We didn't want that groom."
Investigators said they were able to capture Ogmen because of his
hobby of pigeon keeping. The suspect was detained at the Pigeon Lovers
Association in İstanbul with the gun believed to have been used in
the murder on his person.
In his initial testimony, Ogmen had said: "Our family didn't want them
to get married. We met in a café to talk. Zekeriya told me: 'This is
over. We are married. Don't stand in the way.' Then we got in the car.
I shot both of them."
Vural's uncle, Cemal Vural, speaking to the press a week after the
murder, said: "Sonay's brother had invited them to dinner. It was
a trap, apparently. She was Christian. Her family was against the
marriage because he is Muslim. Actually, Sonay warned her family a
week ago that she'd take her own life."
Today's Zaman
http://www.sundayszaman.com/sunday/newsDetail_getNewsById.action?newsId=277700
April 17 2012
Turkey
Gönay Ogmen has been given an aggravated life sentence by the
İstanbul 1st Criminal High Court on Monday for killing his sister,
Sonay Vural, and brother-in-law, Zekeriya Vural.
The young couple was found dead in their car in İstanbul's Fatih
district 10 days after they had been married. It was later discovered
that they had been murdered by the bride's brother because of religious
differences.
Sonay Ogmen (age 26), whose family was Armenian, married Zekeriya Vural
(age 29) against her family's wishes. The young couple was found dead
in their automobile, each with a bullet to the forehead.
Police later established that the couple had been killed by someone
who sitting in the back seat of the vehicle and concluded that the
murderer was someone they knew. Sonay's brother later confessed and
said in his testimony to police, "We didn't want that groom."
Investigators said they were able to capture Ogmen because of his
hobby of pigeon keeping. The suspect was detained at the Pigeon Lovers
Association in İstanbul with the gun believed to have been used in
the murder on his person.
In his initial testimony, Ogmen had said: "Our family didn't want them
to get married. We met in a café to talk. Zekeriya told me: 'This is
over. We are married. Don't stand in the way.' Then we got in the car.
I shot both of them."
Vural's uncle, Cemal Vural, speaking to the press a week after the
murder, said: "Sonay's brother had invited them to dinner. It was
a trap, apparently. She was Christian. Her family was against the
marriage because he is Muslim. Actually, Sonay warned her family a
week ago that she'd take her own life."