TURKEY: 953 WOMEN MURDERED IN FIRST 7 MONTHS, MINISTER SAYS

The dramatic rise in the number of women murdered in Turkey roughly parallels the rise of Islamization in that once almost secular country.  The return to traditional Islamic roles of men and women to those of 7th century Islam guarantees the repression, honor killings and maltreatment of women.

FROM ANSAMED.INFO:

TURKEY: 953 WOMEN MURDERED IN FIRST 7 MONTHS, MINISTER SAYS (ANSAmed) -

ANKARA, NOVEMBER 9 -

Statistics made public by Justice Minister Sadullah Ergin reveal that the number of women murdered in Turkey has drastically increased (+1.400%) in the past seven years, at an average of 4.5 women per day, 31 per week, as pro-government Today's Zaman reports. Minister Ergin provided the statistics in response to a formal inquiry from Democratic Society Party (DTP) deputy Fatma Kurtulan regarding the number of charges filed in connection with cases of domestic violence, the number of convictions resulting from these cases and the number of women murdered since 2002. The justice minister subsequently announced statistics on violence against women and the number of women murdered between 2002 and 2009. Ergin, discussing steps the government has taken to put an end to violence against women,noted that 66 women were murdered in 2002, whereas this figure rose to 953 in the first seven months of this year. (ANSAmed).