Posted on 12/07/2015 10:04:10 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
One third of marriages in Turkey involve underage girls, according to a women’s rights lawyer speaking at a conference that was called to tackle the problem.
“There are 181,036 child brides in our country, unfortunately,†İzmir Bar Association Central Executive Board Member and women’s rights advocate Nuriye Kadan said during the conference in İzmir on Dec. 6.
The actual number is probably far higher because many child marriages are performed with only the presence of an imam and are not officially registered with authorities, she said.
“Nearly 20,000 parents filed applications to marry off their under-16 girls in 2012,†Kadan added.
“Some 97.4 percent of the students who do not further their education for marital reasons are female,†Kadan said, adding that problems arising from pregnancy and giving were prominent reasons for the deaths of young girls aged between 15 and 19.
Emphasizing that “child marriages is a major violation of children’s rights,†Kadan said one-third of marriages in Turkey were child marriages according to the results of the Turkey Population and Health Research.
Turkish society’s patriarchal and traditional mindset has led many to internalize and legitimize the processes that force underage young girls into marriage, she said.
“We must all share the burden of responsibility to fight child marriages. We must wage a comprehensive campaign to create awareness on this,†former State Minister Işılay Saygın said in the opening ceremony of the conference.
Saygın said child marriages could be prevented through education.
“Child marriages occasioned by force and threats should be punished,†Yaşar University Law Professor Mustafa Ruhan Erdem said.
Forced marriage is a major violation of human rights, Erdem said, while adding that child marriage was not defined as a criminal act in Turkey.
“Marriage should be based on free will according to international law. The Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence Turkey signed in 2011, mandates the enactment of laws which regard intentional acts forcing any adult or child into marriage as a ‘crime.’ Forced marriage should not be left unpunished,†he added.
The conference was organized by Gediz University Law School and Women and Family Research Center (GenDes).
Participants at the conference included Kadan, Erdem, Ege University Medical School Professor Meltem Çiçeklioğlu, Ege University Communication School academic Oğuzhan Kavaklı, Gediz University Law School academic Sibel Safi and Health Sciences academic Esin Zengin Taş.
Young and tender means something, doncha know?
Perverted and inbred..
That many of these marriages are between first cousins explains even more. Over 30% of marriages in Turkey are between cousins. The rate in Pakistan is 70%. Result: Muslim countries have higher than global average rates of children born with “special needs”. Their hospitals and clinics caring for these kids are large and full.
Didn’t see the religion mentioned. Some offshoot of the Druids perhaps?
Read up on the Gallipoli Campaign and the Korean War. The Turks are one heluva enemy. We should think twice about them. They made us look like panzies in the Korean war. Expert North Korean prisoner survivors eating weeds and grass, dogs when available. Knew exactly how to handle interrogations and field watches. Strictly squad leader orders at all times. Nearly all survived North Korea POW as if they were in a 5 star hotel. NK lack of Turk language and Turk lack of NK language helped a great deal, Turk pulling of weeds and feeding American POW’s nutritional weeds saved many American lives. I’m really sorry to see Turkey going to the anal side. Turkish North Korean Prisoner for years made it a circus sideshow as the bucketheads kept trying to make it look brutal.
We’ve lost a valuable friend in Turkey thanks to the ignorant UN.
Couple that with the barbarian Muslim male gang rape my tilth parties and zero education... Perfect ingredients for insanity. Just wearing a burka, esp while pregnant, makes them likely candidates for vit D deficiency. This is turkey... Why anyone ever thought the seat of the last known caliph should have any voice in world affairs..i will never know. Must be the money.
Possibly. See and read reply 8. We were both there, read it.
The Turks taught an American Doctor to use common house flies to eat dead tissues to wounds to wrap wounds as antiseptic for wrapping and healing.
What reply? Sorry, not trying to piss ya off here.
But what has changed everything is the conversion of Turkey from the secular western oriented nation of Ataturk's vision back to a militantly Sunni Islamic state run by politicians who envision themselves as new Sultans running a revived Ottoman caliphate. The Turkish military could long be relied on to keep these tendencies under control. But the old secular leadership of the military has died off and been purged leaving them defanged and the remaining still powerful western equipped military is more and more in the service of Islam.
I sure do agree with you, but I sure wouldn't sit in a defensive fighting position expecting this.
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