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Domestic Violence in Turkey
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08 Nov 2007 Thu 04:03 pm |
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Turkish Daily News.........
While spousal abuse has emerged from the shadows as an issue in Turkey in recent years, the scope and depth of the problem defies even the perceptions common to contemporary and progressive debate in the media and other circles, a new study finds.
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08 Nov 2007 Thu 05:28 pm |
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I can't view it. 
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08 Nov 2007 Thu 05:44 pm |
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Try this...
http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=88028
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08 Nov 2007 Thu 05:48 pm |
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It doesn't work for me either. It must be the firewall here at work. I'll check it out tonight when I get home. Thanks for trying.
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08 Nov 2007 Thu 05:50 pm |
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I got the article on Turkish Daily News. It is probably still on the homepage as it is a new article.
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08 Nov 2007 Thu 06:47 pm |
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where are the great lovely sweet turkish men here now?
why dont they ever discuss this sort of problem?
are they busy building the image of turkey or of all turkish men?
busy justifying the resort boys?
busy making up more stories about the greatness of turks?
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08 Nov 2007 Thu 06:53 pm |
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I think the study is interesting because it seems that Turkish women are changing at a faster rate than Turkish men.
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08 Nov 2007 Thu 06:55 pm |
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Quoting Elisabeth: I think the study is interesting because it seems that Turkish women are changing at a faster rate than Turkish men. |
no, lisa, it will take ages to change the situation
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08 Nov 2007 Thu 08:31 pm |
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Quoting femme_fatal: where are the great lovely sweet turkish men here now?
why dont they ever discuss this sort of problem?
are they busy building the image of turkey or of all turkish men?
busy justifying the resort boys?
busy making up more stories about the greatness of turks? |
No such thing as domestic violence Femme. They are just having natural reactions to naughty wives who don't obey the rules 
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08 Nov 2007 Thu 08:52 pm |
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I was at a women's healthcare conference a few years back in Turkey. We were mostly talking about OB/GYN care for women but touched on the subject of domestic violence. What I learned was shocking and so sad. Most Turkish women in one particular survey said that there husbands had beat them because they, the women, were not good enough. I think that the change in the attitude of women in Turkey is essential to changing the overall cycle of domestic violence.
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08 Nov 2007 Thu 09:05 pm |
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Quoting Elisabeth: I was at a women's healthcare conference a few years back in Turkey. We were mostly talking about OB/GYN care for women but touched on the subject of domestic violence. What I learned was shocking and so sad. Most Turkish women in one particular survey said that there husbands had beat them because they, the women, were not good enough. I think that the change in the attitude of women in Turkey is essential to changing the overall cycle of domestic violence. |
Unfortunately not only in Turkey! Creeps who think marrying means getting a slave are in every country! In the Netherlands are at least 24 shelters for victims of domestic violence.
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08 Nov 2007 Thu 09:22 pm |
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Unfortunately you are right Trudy and there is so much work to be done in every country. But I find it is difficult for some women to even recognize they are being abused. Some of the women I have known are abused in such subtle ways...being put down, called names, threatened. It is a huge problem globally. I think that this survey revealed that in some small ways women are recognizing abuse. I am just a little surprised the the study only included acts of violence and not abuse in general. I am sure the numbers would grow if those totals were included.
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08 Nov 2007 Thu 09:27 pm |
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yes abuse comes in many forms .. to me the worst type I believe comes from narcasism .. as a victim of such .. I can honestly say it takes years to even start to know who you are or were .. and then the process of learning all over again starts .. but I agree, if they had added all of the other "subtle" ways to abuse they would have much larger numbers.
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08 Nov 2007 Thu 09:39 pm |
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Quoting Elisabeth: Unfortunately you are right Trudy and there is so much work to be done in every country. But I find it is difficult for some women to even recognize they are being abused. Some of the women I have known are abused in such subtle ways...being put down, called names, threatened. It is a huge problem globally. I think that this survey revealed that in some small ways women are recognizing abuse. I am just a little surprised the the study only included acts of violence and not abuse in general. I am sure the numbers would grow if those totals were included. |
I know, 15 years ago I worked in such a shelter. Even women with scars, blue spots sometimes said 'it is not his fault' (grrrrrrr!!!).
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08 Nov 2007 Thu 10:44 pm |
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Quoting Trudy: I know, 15 years ago I worked in such a shelter. Even women with scars, blue spots sometimes said 'it is not his fault' (grrrrrrr!!!). |
its a defense mechanism that kicks in .. you start to believe that it really is/was your fault, because it is what they want you to believe. The hardest part is breaking away from it because by the time you hit as far bottom as you can go .. and trust me .. its reaaaaaaaaaally reaaaaaaaaaaaaaally a lot further than can be imagined .. it is like something inside your head snaps .. and you start questioning and reasoning .. and a lot of times its with a friends help that you start climbing out of the pit you are in and as you get higher and higher up the walls you learn that you have a strength inside of you that you didn't know was ever there. That is when you leave and start your life over. but the default answers that have been literally beaten into you ..do not go away over night .. that is why you hear those words. You know they are false but you cannot rationalize it any other way until you learn that it was not your fault, you did not ask for him to hit/rape/cheat/lie to you.
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08 Nov 2007 Thu 10:48 pm |
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Quoting Trudy: Quoting Elisabeth: Unfortunately you are right Trudy and there is so much work to be done in every country. But I find it is difficult for some women to even recognize they are being abused. Some of the women I have known are abused in such subtle ways...being put down, called names, threatened. It is a huge problem globally. I think that this survey revealed that in some small ways women are recognizing abuse. I am just a little surprised the the study only included acts of violence and not abuse in general. I am sure the numbers would grow if those totals were included. |
I know, 15 years ago I worked in such a shelter. Even women with scars, blue spots sometimes said 'it is not his fault' (grrrrrrr!!!). |
and catwoman doesnt want to understand why i often cant stand women
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