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İstanbul was most dangerous province for women last month
Eastern Turkey is typically considered to be the hotbed of violence against women, but last month’s statistics suggest the problem plagues the west as well.
Last month, 29 provinces across Turkey witnessed 92 cases of rape, physical and sexual abuse, harassment and child abuse, according to the Independent Communication Network’s (Bianet) statistics. Forty-three of the 92 incidents took place in the Marmara region.
According to Bianet’s findings, İstanbul saw 32 incidents of gender-based violence in January 2012, leading the rest of the country in violence against women.
İstanbul led in the number of cases of both gender-based murders and harassment. At least eleven women were killed in January in eight provinces, according to the statistics. The Marmara region was the most dangerous place in terms of murders of women last month. Three women were killed in İstanbul in January.
Two other women were killed in both Antalya and Gaziantep, and a woman was murdered in each of the provinces of Çanakkale, Kocaeli, Konya, Tekirdağ and Şanlıurfa. Most women were killed by their husbands and with knives. Gender-based violence did not discriminate by age. Murderers ranged between 19 and 48 years of age, and the women they killed were between 16 and 60 years old.
Bianet statistics found 35 women were sexually harassed last month in five provinces around Turkey. But 22 of those women harassed were in İstanbul.
Last month, 26 women were physically hurt as a result of gender-based violence in 15 provinces around Turkey. Most of these gender-based injuries took place in Şanlıurfa. At least 11 of the women injured in January were taken to the hospital. Only four took refuge in a women’s shelter. Another 10 women were raped last month, and five others were forced into prostitution.
In addition to statistics, Bianet also released on Wednesday information related to gender-based violence news, developments and initiatives taken last month. The Ministry of Family and Social Policy, which collaborated with women’s rights groups and other civil society groups for months, submitted its draft law to prevent violence against women to the Council of Ministers on Jan. 31. The Adana Police Department circulated a six-item booklet for victims of domestic violence that included information on how to escape, how to fight back, etc. Turkey’s sparse number of women’s shelters increased last month with the opening of a women’s shelter in Diyarbakır’s Bağlar municipality.
A man shot his wife to death on Tuesday in Ankara’s Pursaklar district after she filed for a divorce.
Hacı Y., 41, forced his wife, Fatma Yılmaz, into his car, killed her and then dumped her body on the side of the road. Ankara police tried to find Hacı Y. after they discovered his wife’s body. When they found out he had fled to İstanbul, police contacted the İstanbul Police Department.
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