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(ANSAmed) - ANKARA, SEPTEMBER 24 - In the past four years, a total of 158 women from Turkey's eastern and southeastern Anatolia region contacted the Women's Centre (KA-MER) saying they were threatened with honour-killings. Among the group, three could not be assisted and subsequently died, while another 23 were forced to commit suicide to execute their "verdict", demonstrating a link between the number of suicides and so-called 'honour killings', KA-MER said in a report titled "We Can Stop It". KA-MER, founded in the eastern Anatolian city of Diyarbakyr in 2003, has worked on the issues of violence and honour killings in the east and southeast Anatolian regions. Twenty-three women faced verdicts of death simply because they met with or escaped with the men they loved, according to the report. The number of raped or harassed who "had to die" was 19. Of the cases of women sentenced to death, 27 were discovered to be "unfounded aspersions". Though there are various reasons behind honor killings, disobedience was found to be the reason behind most cases with 37 women, or 23.4%. Disobedience was defined in numerous ways: refusing to marry the person the family had chosen, refusing to have sex with a brother-in-law or father, not accepting prostitution, not fulfilling the demands of the husbands, fathers, brothers or other elders or complaining about husbands raping their daughters or interrupting man-to-man conversations. The death verdicts mainly come from the family of the victim, the report shows. In the cases of 56 women, their families decided that they should die. The father has the most clout in the verdict, and 37 of the fathers decided on death. The second decision-maker is the husband, 55 of who sentenced their wives to death. A majority of the decision makers have no education, the report shows. While 65 of them are illiterate, 42 know how to read and write yet had no formal school education. It is observed that as the level of education increases, the rate of death verdicts decrease. (ANSAmed).