Turkish honor code allows legal sale of daughter to rapist
Progress has been made on women's rights in Turkey, but loopholes still on the books allow abuses.
Ceylan YeginsuOctober 5, 2012 09:50
ISTANBUL, Turkey — When a father heard that his 13-year-old daughter had been raped and tortured by a close relative, he felt more remorse than rage. He said the violation of his daughter’s body has tarnished one thing above all: honor, a code that when broken reduces female worth to nothing.
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