Perihan Yakupoglu Born: 1959
Strangled and beaten to death: 22 March 1983
Residence: Andernach (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Origin: Turkey
Children: none
Perpetrator: her father Abdullah Yakupoglu (age 51 at the time of the crime)
Abdullah Yakupoglu comes to Germany in 1964 as a laborer and five years later brings his wife and three small daughters. The girls are trained as hairdressers. The youngest is devoted to her father and marries a Turk he has chosen.
The two older sisters - Emine and Perihan - do not want this. In March 1980, the three sisters leave the house in the dead of night. Emine marries her German boyfriend. Perihan, however, refuses to return or marry. On March 22, 1983, the father kills his daughter in a parking lot near Andernach by strangling her and hitting her on the head with a hammer.
Abdullah is sentenced to life imprisonment by the district court in Koblenz in April 1984. Two years later, the case is documented in the ZDF film "Abdullah Yakupoglu: Why did I kill my daughter?". In custody, he falls ill with cancer and is released so that he can spend the last months of his life at home, where he dies.