By controlling the chastity of women by family members, long-term legitimacy of court by institutions and in the context of the cultural religious life, the woman the unauthorized use of their sexuality and removed from her body. That was until March 1999 the courts have the opportunity, women who had committed adultery, according to the court ruling to issue prison sentences, also were girls and young women are subjected in state schools and orphanages virginity. "bleeding On the wedding night I do not. My husband cut his finger, so that blood was on the sheet. The next morning he took me directly to the doctor to be examined my hymen. Although the hymen was intact, he treats me sometimes in a very condescending way. .. To this day I did not know that it is normal for some women, not to bleed "(Report of a participant in a women's rights project)
The Turkish woman is made to what she has presented in accordance with strict Islamic view: a winner of the general group identity and therefore object of social interests. it thus always represents a risk by abuses against the customary law, gender Provisions of the honor (namus) of the group (family, village, nation) to soil. In most cases, defamation of relatives will be perceived if female behavior may not reflect the social ideal (virginity, chastity, morality). In the wake of the strictly orthodox code of honor demands vengeance as the only solution (murder or ill-treatment) of the standard fracture accused woman.
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