>You perhaps wanted to point out your finger on yet another barbaric Muslim country, but this is more general psychology issue.
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>You'll notice I didn't mention "Muslim country" by name - but if you find that the shoe fits, wear it with my compliments.
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>After first beating where she ended up in hospital, guy was sentenced to 15 months in prison, but woman dropped charges
>as he has 'shown remorse'... This is so common pattern that it is rarely even news worthy. Things like this are happening everywhere. (In US as well). What exactly is unbelievable here ??
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>Over the years, I've known women who have been raped and beaten. I will not claim to know what it's like to be on the receiving end of extreme physical abuse, but I have seen the effects of trauma afterwards (including fear and denial). And in an environment in these barbaric Muslim countries (and yes, NOW I'll bring it up) , women are mistreated simply for "going against" men.
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>Violence against women, sadly, occurs in every single country. However, the level of sanction by the government or "religious law" has collateral impact.
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>If you wish to continue this, fine, but all you'll probably achieve is further exposure of that which you've offered apologies for.

This is more a social and religious issue than it is a government one. Many women in Turkey behave according to the social and religious environment they grew up in. Turkey is a place which took great strides in women's rights during the previous 20 years. HUGE strides compared to other countries.

Some of the changes the government took are listed here:
http://www.enjoyturkey.com/info/culture/Woman.htm

The ongoing process of educating women on their rights is written about here (it's one thing to change the law but another to make the populace away of those changes):
http://www.wwhr.org/whumanrights_national.php

Historically Turkey has been a tremendous ally to the U.S. In recent years that is changing as geopolitical interests change. Some of that is written about here:
http://www.aolnews.com/article/losing-turkey-a-key-us-ally-moves-away/19503920

I'm sure anyone from Turkey can respond on all of this better than I can. I just wanted to point out that it's not a simple situation and while changing the governmental laws is one thing, changing the the views and culture of an entire country is another.