ABSTRACT
The ideology of honor is widely accepted in Kurdish society, but for most Kurds, it rarely acts as a guide to action. Only in situations where the family or the tribe feel that their honor is threatened or when an insult calls for the restoration of honor, will the ideology be put into practice. This chapter illustrates how a coincidental event happens to evoke conceptions of honor in two neighboring tribes, and how these conceptions eventually lead to a tragic blood feud through an escalating series of ever more violent interactions. But since a text needs to be seen in context in order to be understood properly, it is necessary first to introduce the reader to the socio-political situation in which the actual feud occurs.
