“As if there is war waged upon women” said Fatma Şahin, the Minister of Family and Social Policy of Turkey while answering a parliamentary question about the latest domestic violence figures in the country, not more than a week ago.1 Within the same week of her statement, news in the press were merely verifying the Minister’s depressing comment: An estranged husband with restraining order shot her wife to death in front of the eyes of their 4 children in Ankara. (March 25, 2013)
A nurse in Edirne was shot and killed by her policeman husband in the hospital she was working in for insisting on filing for divorce. (March 26, 2013)
In Şanlıurfa, a 27 years old newlywed women H.G. was murdered by his husband who pumped 10 bullets into her head. (March 27, 2013) The young woman who was found shot by a gun in her home in in Yozgat, is still being treated in the intensive care unit at the hospital. (March 28, 2013)
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