"TURKEY: EUROPEAN UNION COURT RULING COULD EXPAND WOMEN’S RIGHTS
Nicholas Birch 6/17/09
A European Court of Human Rights ruling in early June could turn into a landmark decision that opens the way for the expanded protection of women’s rights in Turkey.
In the case, the ECHR found that Turkey had failed to adequately prosecute a man who brutalized his wife and her mother for a decade before shooting his mother-in-law dead. 'The general and discriminatory judicial passivity in Turkey created a climate that was conducive to domestic violence,' the court stated in a press release, ordering Turkey to pay the 37-year old plaintiff, Nahide Opuz, 36,500 euros ($42,000)."
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