More than a third of all marriages in Turkey are child marriages. Western-oriented Turkish foam on the bad habit of rich old men young girls to give in marriage. It is a difficult debate in a country where President Gül Hayrünissa his wife two days after their 15th Birthday married.
tried on Sunday a young woman named Nazlican Toprak, take his own life. In the Istanbul district of Nobel Istinye she took the sleeping pills and swallowed them all of her husband. He noticed she was the hospital in time To bring them survived. She had been depressed, she says as she again went better. The story sounds like a sad, but everyday thing - depression, death wish, fortunately, a lenient end.
A detail his case, however, made it a scandal that rocked Turkey. The husband, Halis Toprak, is a famous businessman. He is 71 years old and has a dozen children. Most of them are older than his young wife. For Nazlican 17 years young. It is an age difference of 54. They had married only last summer. Her family is poor. He had promised to help them financially.
Nazlican is a purchased bride minor. In the media, a body financed by the Sabanci University study is cited that 37 percent of all marriages nationwide children's marriages - ie where one spouse, usually the woman is younger than 18 years and the consent of their parent does. They had given their consent in this case.
now ashamed of the more modern part of Turkey on the bad habit of rich, give to old men young girl to woman. It is almost never an issue in the media, and even somewhat acceptable, because one can point to President Abdullah Gul: He married his wife two days after their Hayrünissa Gül 15th Birthday. The parents had the Arranged marriage. It is a model marriage have become, and Hayrünissa fights, like her husband, for the freedom to live religious beliefs.
only to these beliefs is, at least in the people, the children's marriage. Did not the Prophet exemplified this? In the southeast of the country supposedly 68 percent of all marriages are the only reason why legal because the parents give written permission to marry their underage daughter can. Correctly it should read, in many cases: Marriage must. For if it is arranged marriages, and the child in such a thing as a commodity.
officially allowed to marry in Turkey with 17 years where as the parents in writing give their blessing. Even 16 years is in order, if there are "exceptional circumstances", such as pregnancy, and a judge approved the marriage.
It is often a matter of life and death - if the girl does to a child without being married, which brings shame on the family and may her death by "honor killing" means.
According to the Ministry of Education has this year alone, 693 children aborted the eighth grade because she got married. Only 18 of these young people were boys.
The government is working on strategies to reduce marriages of minors. Just published a commission of Parliament their cognitions and suggested that marriage age increased to 18 and to punish families who withdraw their daughters attend school.
However, as long precedes President Gül as a paradigm, it will be hard to draw the people in a different direction.
Source: The Welt.de
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