(Deutsche Welle) “I was an honor killing” and “The bundle under this shroud is me”: Through sentences like these, an off-screen voice speaks in the name of Hatun Aynur Sürücü, who was shot by one of her brothers on the street in 2005.
The film A Regular Woman unsparingly recounts her story.
Born in Berlin in 1982 to Kurdish Sunni parents from Turkey’s East Anatolian Erzurum province, Aynur was one of nine children. Her family took her out of school when she was 16, and married her off to a cousin in Turkey.
She left her abusive husband, however, and returned to Berlin, pregnant.
At first, the young, independent and strong woman lived with her family, but in hopes of a self-determined life, she moved with her son to a hostel for single mothers, despite great resistance from her family.
