Interview: How Turkey’s Failure to Protect Women Can Cost Them Their Lives | Human Rights Watch

Interview: How Turkey’s Failure to Protect Women Can Cost Them Their Lives According to the most recent official data, around four out of ten women in Turkey have suffered physical and/or sexual violence during their lives. Hundreds are murdered by their partners every year, even though in some cases they had reported their abusers to authorities more than once. In some cases, their deaths could possibly have been prevented, had the authorities made sure that restraining orders were respected, breaches punished, and perpetrators prosecuted, according to a new Human Rights Watch report, “Combatting Domestic Violence in Turkey: The Deadly Impact of Failure to Protect.” More:Interview: How Turkey’s Failure to Protect Women Can Cost Them Their Lives | Human Rights Watch