Friday, July 18, 2014

Turkey’s Rampant Domestic Violence Problem - The Daily Beast

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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