[T]he Konya-based Compassion Association (Sefkat-Der) has prepared a report titled “Excuses for Domestic Violence in Turkey and Recommendations from Women Victims on How to Avoid Violence.” The report is the result of the association’s findings after speaking with the 9,000 women and girls who have fallen victim to domestic violence and sought shelter with Sefkat-Der, […]
The Second European Quality of Life Survey was conducted by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound) in 27 EU member nations, three candidate countries and Norway. The survey found that Turkey is the least “mentally healthy” nation in Europe [based on a WHO index], and also discovered the nation’s […]
A teenage girl with her hands restrained behind her back in the Saray institute near Ankara, Turkey. Photo from Mail on Sunday.
In a dark wig and a headscarf, the Duchess of York has bluffed her way into orphanages in Turkey. The profoundly shocking scenes she found have made her - and her daughters, who […]
More recent UPDATE: Court rejects retrial of the molester. (click here)
UPDATE on the incident described below: Female deputies of the ruling Justice and Development Party, or AKP, submitted a proposal yesterday to double penalties for sexual assault, just days after the release of a columnist accused of abusing a 14-year-old girl. (click here)
ORIGINAL POST: Below […]
New draft regulations on alcohol are being debated that would ban alcohol sponsorships and other restrictions. (click here for article. Excerpt:)
…The number of businesses selling alcohol in Turkey has decreased by 12.6 percent over the past three years, according to a survey conducted by the Nielsen International Measurement Service. The number decreased from 58,649 in […]
Firearm ownership in Turkey has reached alarming figures, with the number of guns in the country estimated at 8 million, more than twice what it was seven years ago. According to current figures, 9 percent of the nation owns a firearm.
Turkey has approximately 2.5 million registered guns, while an estimated 5.5 million guns are believed […]
A doctor investigating the deaths of 13 newborns at a hospital in western Turkey said Monday that the deaths were a result of an infection spread by intravenous treatment, the Dogan news agency reported. The babies, all of whom were premature, died late Saturday and early Sunday in Izmir. It was the second mass death […]
Turkish Muslims plan to resort to appetite suppressing diet patches to help them get through the daily fast during the Ramadan holy month, the Anatolia news agency reported Friday. One of the most popular questions asked on a help line run by Turkey’s Religious Affairs Directorate is “whether diet patches are suitable for fasting” and “whether the […]
Photo from Turkish Daily News
The month of Ramadan, the Muslim month of fasting from sunrise to sunset, begins today. For an explanation and history, click here, on religious fasting in general, click here. For cultural events planned this month, click here.
Photo from Today’s Zaman
The Turkish Statistics Institute (TurkStat) sparked an outcry earlier this week by recommending to civil servants’ unions that TurkStat’s food poverty line of YTL 255 ($214) a month be adopted instead of the higher figure proposed by the unions during their negotiations on salary hikes and benefits…
TurkStat declared the food poverty line — the minimum […]