Since then there has been a chilling increase in the number of women killed, often at the hands of men they know. Newspapers report almost daily on the murders of women by men they knew, and the rights group says 328 women were killed last year. The Turkish government has said that the number of women killed every year is unacceptable, but activists warn that the problem is getting worse. Over 37 percent of Turkish women said they had experienced physical or sexual violence―or both―according to an exhaustive 2014 survey of 15,000 households by the country’s family ministry. But the main reason for violence is “men not seeing women as equal, seeing themselves better than women”, she said.

Source: The Standard July 12, 2017 11:26 UTC