Photo Gallery The Death of Hatun Sürücü
Hatun Sürücü left home in 1999 to raise her son as a single mother in Berlin. She abandoned her headscarf and trained as an electrician. Her younger brother shot her dead in 2005.
"She had to die because she was living like a German," the murderer, Ayhan Sürücü (right), told journalists from a Berlin prison.
A new documentary on German TV reconstructs the story and talks to Hatun's brothers for the first time.
The killing makes no sense to Germans, but Hatun's older brother Mutlu -- now living in Istanbul -- is not mystified. "Why does a woman need to dress up so prettily?" he says in the film. "Why does she need to go out on the town?"
Hatun's death became a high-profile story in 2005, and friends and activists still demonstrate in Berlin. Whether the rest of the Sürücü family conspired with Ayhan has never been determined in court.
