At least 252 Turkish women died at the hands of their husbands, lovers or male relatives last year, up from 217 the preceding year, according to Bianet, a Web site that is supported in part by the European Union.
The state has not been much help, a women’s group named We Will Stop the Killing of Women said in a report published last month. It said 73 percent of women who requested police or court protection from abusive husbands between 2008 and 2011 ended up getting killed by those men anyway...
“I am sick of hearing that we cannot provide every threatened woman with a police guard,” Mr. Bulan said. “We can call out the army when a bomb explodes somewhere once a month, but we cannot muster the forces to fight this terror that takes lives daily?”
Sefkat has so far referred the women seeking weapons training to local shooting ranges, Mr. Bulan said. He is also considering setting up organized classes in weapons training to meet the demand in a more affordable and less public manner.
“We have deferred a final decision,” he said, “until we see how the new law turns out.”
I'd like this to go out to the countless women I know and have known in this country who have been hit, stalked, and attacked with weapons of threat of weapons and in particular those whose complaints have been ignored by friends, work and, worst of all, police. For those of you in this country who remain friends with men like that, wow. Just wow.
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