The Turkish media is free enough, Arınç
We now have the chance to turn all schools into religious schools, says AKP deputy
An Arrested Student Without an Arresting Story
?Help, Police!? to spot ?risky? police stations
from Hurriyet Daily News
Due to an increasing number of reported police brutality cases, the Progressive Lawyers? Association is establishing a telephone hotline for victims of police violence.
Şahin?s ?healthy pepper gas? remarks stir outcry
from Hurriyet Daily News
Interior Minister İdris Naim Şahin?s remarks about ?healthy pepper gas? have sparked a fierce reaction among the families and doctors of police pepper spray victims.
Male Violence July 2012- Full Report
from Bianet :: English
Men killed 20 women, three other men and two children in July, according to bianet?s tally. They also injured 24 women and raped 11 more. Women?s husbands turned out to be their worst nemesis, as they were most frequently the culprits in cases of murder and violence
Other hostages of PKK forgotten, families say
from Hurriyet Daily News
The high-profile kidnapping and subsequent release of main opposition lawmaker Hüseyin Aygün has cast a spotlight on other people
Smuggler shot in head by police at check point in eastern Turkey: report
from Hurriyet Daily News
A cigarette smuggler has been seriously wounded after being shot in the head by a special operations police.
The Logic of State Abuse
from Kamil Pasha by Jenny White
If women are considered by the state to be properties of their families and communities, rather than individuals bearing inalienable natural rights, then crimes against them are defined by whether or not a social norm or socially defined status has been violated, not by whether or not the woman has been harmed. Society is harmed, not the woman….
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