violence against women motivated by a "namus" based concept of honor of the family or clan have been described as endemic in turkey, in particular in the southeastern anatolia region, the predominantly kurdish area of turkey. a july 2008 study by a team from dicle university on honor killings in the southeastern anatolia region has so far shown that little if any social stigma is attached to honor killing. the team interviewed 180 perpetrators of honor killings and it also commented that the practice is not related to a feudal societal structure, "there are also perpetrators who are well-educated university graduates. of all those surveyed perpetrators, 60 percent are either high school or university graduates or at the very least, literate". a survey where 500 men were interviewed in diyarbakir found that, when asked the appropriate punishment for a woman who has committed adultery, 37% of respondents said she should be killed, while 21% said her nose or ears should be cut off. however, turkish government and media have adopted an approach to inappropriately ethnicize honor killings as purely kurdish problems.