İHD 2014 report: 335 women killed in domestic violence in 'Islamist' Turkey. (FOT).
The Human Rights Association (ihd), in its 2014 human rights abuse report released on Thursday, has revealed that 335 women died and 789 women were injured in incidents of domestic violence and abuse over the last year in Turkey.
According to the İHD report, 39 women committed suicide and 13 attempted to end their own lives, sustaining injuries in the process, in 2014. A total of 296 women died during the year as a result of domestic violence, rape and sexual assault.
Additionally, 585 women were injured after being subjected to a variety of types of violence; 191 women were injured after becoming victims of rape and sexual assault, and 289 were forced into prostitution in 2014.
Over the period of 2002-2009, years when the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) were in power, murders of women reportedly increased by 1,400 percent, and at least five women were killed a day. At present all statistics between 2009 and 2015 are held by the government, which is not sharing the figures with the public.
The head of the Gaziantep Bar Association’s Women Rights Commission, Günay Kaplan, said on Thursday that the violence against women was on the rise, as evidenced by the statistics. She underlined that the rise in the violence stems from courts reducing the punishment of offenders after saying they were “agitated” when committing the crimes. Source: Today’s Zaman
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