Human Rights Watch has an interesting new report out that looks at domestic violence in Turkey and the gap between the laws that are in place to protect women and how those laws are being (or, actually, not being) applied.
"With strong laws in place, it is inexcusable that Turkish authorities are depriving family violence victims of basic protections," Gauri van Gulik, women's rights advocate and researcher at Human Rights Watch and author of the report, said in a release. "Turkey has gone through exemplary reform on women's human rights, but police, prosecutors, judges, and social workers need to make the system exemplary in practice, not just on paper."
The full report can be found here.
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