BLOOD FEUDS.
KZW TUraiSH LAW. ISTANBUL. The Government has decided to stamp out the blond feuds, which are still a feature of Turkish life. A now bill, * based upon principles finite rlifTerent from those underlying Turkish law, has been laid before the Kamutay, and will be passed without delay. Under thin law the,,relatives n sf any pp-"on sentenced >to death rWta iimrder. qr.ejicn sentenced; ,to prison for an attempt to 66mi|fft gucn a murder, will all be transferred to some region at least three hundred miles away. The exile will never be less than three years. Although blood feuds are often waged among people of Turkish stock, the tradition is strongest among the Kurds.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 4, 6 January 1937, Page 10
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