"Turkey: Husband Cuts Off Wife's Ears and Nose for Reporting Abuse
ANSAmed 22 March 2010
ANKARA - A total of 43 women lost their lives (17 murdered and 26 committed suicide) in eastern and south-eastern Anatolia alone in the opening two months of this year. These figures appear in the pro-government newspaper, Sabah, which cites as its source Birgul Kitay, the head of the Ka-Mer (Women's Centre)Women's Association in Bingol, in this Kurdish majority eastern part of Turkey."
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