Turkey - Thirteen year old 'Child bride' dies suspicious death in Siirt.

Turkey - Thirteen year old 'Child bride' dies suspicious death in Siirt.(TZ).

Kader Erten, a 13-year-old teenager, was found dead her house in Siirt's Pervari district on Sunday, apparently shot to death.

Erten, whose second child recently died after a premature birth, had married at the age of 12 in an arranged marriage. She gave birth to her first baby at the age of 13.

After her family arranged for her to marry Mehmet Atak two years ago, she moved from her family home in the Çatak district of Van to the Düğümcüler village of Siirt's Pervari district to live with her in-laws. Atak and Erten never legally married.

One year after giving birth to her first child, she became pregnant for the second time. Her husband was conscripted two months ago in the Keşan district of Edirne.

On Sunday, the young woman was found dead in her room in her in-laws' home.

The body was sent to Diyarbakır's Council of Forensic Medicine (ATK) for an autopsy. The Pervari Chief Public Prosecutor's Office has launched an investigation into the young woman's suspicious death.
Erten's husband has said that she became depressed after the death of her child, shut herself in her room and later committed suicide.

Although her date of birth is listed as July 21, 2000 on her ID card, her parents-in-law claim she is older than 14. "We filed a petition with the courts demanding that her correct age be determined using a bone-age test. Our petition is still being processed," they said.

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