36year old turkish mother shoots pregnant daughter to death

Firstclass newsline learnt that a Turkish mother, 36, shot dead her
daughter, 17, after finding out that she was three months pregnant,
media reports said on Saturday.
The mother, named as Emine A., found out that her daughter Meryem A.
was pregnant during a visit to neighbours, the Hurriyet daily
reported.
She then went back home to find a gun and returned to shoot her
daughter — who worked as a cashier in a market — five times, it said.
Bystanders outside the apartment block in the Selcuk district of the
southern city of Nigde rushed to help and took Meryem to hospital but
she died on the way.
The mother was detained by police but then had a nervous collapse and
was hospitalised. The investigation is continuing.
Turkish authorities acknowledge there is a grave problem of violence
against women in the country, although the vast majority of cases
involving attacks perpetrated by men.
According to the non-governmental Platform to Stop Violence Against
Women, 286 women were murdered in Turkey in 2014 and 134 so far in
2015.
Firstclassnewsline.net