Rape, abortion and the fight for women's rights in Turkey
A controversial rape case has shown how in this patriarchal country it is always women who pay the price
In Turkey, outside big cities, social life concentrates on coffee houses, that is, if you are a man. This week, the customers of a coffee house in a village in the Mediterranean region saw a young woman carrying a bloody sack. Inside was a severed head. She hurled the sack towards them and said: "I saved my honour. Do not talk behind my back any more."
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