Police have arrested three men after over
the shooting of a 19 year old Turkish
woman who had been competing in a
national television song contest ,local
media reported ,Tuesday,
Murlu Kaya ,who is from the conservative
region of Diyarbakir in the Kurdish majority
southeast of Turkey ,remained in a critical
condition in hospital after she was shot in
the head on Monday,
The three men later arrested by police included
her 26 year-old boyfriend Veysi E,the Dogan
news agency said,
Veysi reportedly rejected the accusation against
him while admitting to being opposed to Murlu
Kaya's participation on the show,
Kaya had been appearing on the Turkish TV
talent show "Sesi Cok Guzel"
Turkish press reports said the woman had
previously received death threats for appearing
on the show
The Posta news paper had reported earlier this
week ,before the attack ,that Kaya had been
threatened from within her own family for
going to Istanbul to take part in the contest,
Kaya was shot while she was at her home in
the Ergani district of Diyarbakir province,
Dogan reported and is now in intensive care
in Diyarbakir,
Report said she was shot by an assailant who
fired a bullet from the garden through the back
window into the house.
Kaya had been mentored by Sibel Can ,one
of Turkey's best known folk pop singers who
has been a household name for decades,
The attack on Kaya comes at a time of
intensifying anger in Turkey over the extent
of violence against women,with hundreds f
wives killed by their husbands every year,
AFP
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