Turkey’s Rampant Domestic Violence Problem
Violence against women is on the rise in Turkey, and the country’s first-ever female political party blames Erdogan’s machismo.
Residents of an upscale Istanbul neighborhood flocked to their windows earlier this month to watch a neighbor brutally beat his wife. One onlooker—a European woman—recounted the woman’s screams and her neighbors’ apathy in a post to an Istanbul Facebook group.
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