Girl of 15 goes to Turkey to marry Turkish man she met on BEBO (with her mother's blessing!)

[Gunnerbean]

Absolutely staggering

www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/133521/BRITISH-GIRL-15-IS-SECRET-BRIDE-OF-TURKISH-WA ITER.html

There was a girl last year who ran away to Egypt to marry someone. I wonder if she is still there?

Do you people have no penniless teenage waiters in the UK?

No, but I'm hoping to push ds in that direction so that he can 'marry' a 'strong and independent' underage girl from Turkey. I can dream.

Will people never learn from the mistakes of others. This just reminds me of poor Cara who ran away to Brazil

why is it in the press now? the daughter 'married' him in April 2008, nearly a year ago, guess the mum wanted some money?

One of my friends is married to a Turkish man and has converted to Islam and she has not changed her name.

People fall in love. Some people meet their partner young and live happily ever after. Of course it's unlikely but we'll see.

Couching - In practice, she wouldn't necessarily be called by the "Muslim name". However, in the conversion to Islam, the imam asks her Muslim name and refers to her by it. So she will have chosen a Muslim name.

All this only if they did a Muslim ceremony anyway. DH is catholic, I'm Turkish. We didn't do a Muslim ceremony and he didn't even pretend to have converted.