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Thursday, November 10, 2011

Zeynep Lokmanoglu: We Were Both 13

We Were Both 13
Posted: 11/9/11 06:20 PM ET

In 2002, a 13-year-old girl in Turkey's southeastern city of Mardin reported to the authorities that she had been raped, multiple times, by 26 men over a period of 7 months. Two women had facilitated the abuse in exchange for money and were immediately sentenced to nine years in prison. The men, who were identified as soldiers, teachers and village guards among other professions, were sentenced to three to six years in prison.

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