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Wed 06 Jun 2009Rights court censures Turkey over attitude to domestic violence
THE EUROPEAN Court of Human Rights has ruled that Turkey failed adequately to prosecute a man who brutalised his wife and her mother for a decade before fatally shooting his mother-in-law, in a case that once again exposes Turkey’s shaky record on women’s rights.
“The general and discriminatory judicial passivity in Turkey created a climate that was conducive to domestic violence,” the court stated in a press release yesterday, ordering Turkey to pay the plaintiff, Nahide Opuz (37), €36,500.
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