Turkey: A land where “women know how to die like a man” and distributors of ‘unholy’ epilation brochure shot…

Commenting on women who died on the night of the thwarted July 15 military coup attempt, Family and Social Policies Minister Fatma Betül Sayan Kaya has said “Turkish women know how to die like a man.”

Shavkatbek Saipov was vacationing in Turkey in 2013 when he was hit in the eye by a teargas cannister fired by police during the brutal crackdown on the Occupy Gezi protests; he lost the eye and sued the Turkish police.

Four people were wounded on Oct. 20 when an assailant opened random fire on locals following a brawl that erupted over the distribution of advertising brochures belonging to an epilation center in Trabzon, claiming that they were unholy

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