Two stories today: Women’s rights groups say a case of torture and abuse by Turkish police is not unique. Also: The largest study of preteen girls with ADHD indicates that it is more common in girls than previously thought.
Turkey, the world’s most secular Muslim nation, has enacted revolutionary changes in its family law code, declaring women and men equal in marriage and giving women equal rights in divorce and property ownership. Issues remain, however.
America is better prepared to unite than it was 60 years ago when we joined the fight against Hitler, Stalin and Japan. After the war, we sought to conquer our inner demons of bias and intolerance–issues that tear nations and worlds apart.
A battered Turkish woman is seeking asylum on grounds that if she were forced to return to Turkey she would face certain violence and quite possibly death in an “honor killing” because she filed for divorce and fled her abusive husband.
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