Now we wonder if we should visit Turkey again, a bad image for Turkey indeed

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2009/05/200954213113152601.html

Marriage. in Turkey, has suddenly become risky bussiness....

Such a tragic event.  May the victims rest in peace. 

Marriage anyplace is always risky....how about the Catholics who are not allowed to divorce...they had some pretty "interesting" ways of getting out of it.....

Then, I don´t think Roswitha has to worry.  I can´t really imagine her in Bilge Koyu, most tourists would never go to Bilge Koyu.  It is a very poor remote village close to the Syrian border. 

So sad, in particular when I remember the joyous wedding parties I have attended. 

There is a lot more to this story, I´m sure.  Usually Turkish weddings are preceeded by a engagement of a significant time, so if there were problems, they must have known about them.  The assailants were masked, nobody knows who they were?

Inna lillahi ve inna ileyhi raciun. May their souls rest in peace. :[

The Dutch  news says it´s not sure whether it´s something to do with the Kurdish problem or just a family thing. But I dont trust the Dutch news anyway, on the same page it first said ´44 people were killed including the bride and bridegroom´ and at the bottom of the page it said ´It is unclear whether the bride and bridegroom were amongst the dead´. It´s also interesting to see how they are able to translate the news film, the only thing the man was doing was summing up the list of friends and family he lost, but apparently the translator read a completely different story in it, not even mentioning that ´his sister and friends were killed´.. (Unfortunately the link on their website isn´t working, I saw it on TV..) Are newsmakers really making things up??

My condoleances to all family and relatives of the people killed in this drama..

This is absolutely dreadful.  I don´t think there are words to describe it.

Our news says that is was a family feud.

 Chantal: the Turkish press is also confirming:

44 dead, including bride and groom. In the list of names, most have the surname of the bride. But the grooms younger brother or sister died, also the imam who was doing the wedding.

The 8 attackers were caught by the gendarmerie, and initial reports seem to be it was some sort of long-running family feud. The groom was a distant cousin of the bride.

Tragic.

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That´s so horrible !!

It´s a shame