AFP
Acting on a tip-off, police discovered Medine Memi's body in a sitting
position with her hands tied, in a two-metre-deep hole in a chicken pen outside
her house in Kahta town, Adiyaman province, 40 days after she went missing, the
agency said.
A subsequent post mortem revealed that she had a significant amount of soil
in her lungs and stomach, meaning that she was buried alive, foresic experts
told the agency.
"The autopsy result is blood-curdling. According to our findings, the
girl -- who had no bruises on her body and no sign of narcotics or poison in
her blood -- was alive and fully conscious when she was buried," one
anonymous expert said.
Medine's father and grandfather have been formally arrested and jailed
pending trial over her killing, the agency said.
The father is reported to have said in his testimony that the family was
unhappy she had male friends.
In honour killings, most prevalent in
But the practice has gone so far as to kill rape victims or women who simply
talked to strange men.