{"id":1901,"date":"2004-01-04T11:24:14","date_gmt":"2004-01-04T15:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/01\/04\/rape-rumors-lead-to-suicide-bombing\/"},"modified":"2004-01-04T11:24:14","modified_gmt":"2004-01-04T15:24:14","slug":"rape-rumors-lead-to-suicide-bombing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/01\/04\/rape-rumors-lead-to-suicide-bombing\/","title":{"rendered":"Rape Rumors Lead to Suicide Bombing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a2183'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td width=\"523\" height=\"164\" colspan=\"3\">\n<p>ISTANBUL &#8212; The allegations can<br \/>\n        be heard almost everywhere in Turkey now, from farmers&#8217; wives eating<br \/>\n        in humble kebab shops, in influential journals,<br \/>\n          and from erudite political leaders: American troops have raped thousands<br \/>\n          of Iraqi women and young girls since ousting dictator Saddam Hussein.<\/p>\n<p>urullah Kuncak says his father, Ilyas Kuncak, was boiling about the<br \/>\n        rumored rapes just before he killed himself delivering the huge car bomb<br \/>\n        that devasted the Turkish headquarters of HSBC bank last month, killing<br \/>\n        a dozen people and wounding scores more.<\/p>\n<p>        &quot;Didn&#8217;t you see, the American soldiers raped Iraqi women,&quot; Nurullah<br \/>\n        said in a recent interview. &quot;My father talked to me about it. .<br \/>\n        . . Thousands of rapes are in the records. Can you imagine how many are<br \/>\n      still secret?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The US Embassy in Ankara, the Turkish capital, has strongly denounced<br \/>\n          the reports, calling them &quot;outrageous allegations . . . based<br \/>\n          on a US `source&#8217; best known for her pornographic websites and erotic<br \/>\n          television program. We believe it is irresponsible for a serious newspaper<br \/>\n          to present such false claims from a clearly unreliable source on its<br \/>\n          front page as if they were fact. We view this article as a deliberate<br \/>\n          attempt to mislead Turkish readers and to damage the strong ties between<br \/>\n          the Turkish and American people.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>        &quot;I am a sex therapist and I use sexual terminology for political commentary,&quot; Block<br \/>\n        said. &quot;I did not say American troops are literally raping Iraqi<br \/>\n        women. . . . I don&#8217;t know if Americans are raping Iraqi women. I do know<br \/>\n        they are killing them. I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s much better.&quot; She<br \/>\n      said it is clear that she was using &quot;rape&quot; as a metaphor for &quot;invasion.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/world\/articles\/2004\/01\/04\/rumors_of_rape_fan_anti_american_flames\/\">from<br \/>\n            the Boston Globe<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISTANBUL &#8212; The allegations can be heard almost everywhere in Turkey now, from farmers&#8217; wives eating in humble kebab shops, in influential journals, and from erudite political leaders: American troops have raped thousands of Iraqi women and young girls since &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/01\/04\/rape-rumors-lead-to-suicide-bombing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}