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Man sentenced to give wife flowers for five months.

A man who reportedly beat his wife was sentenced by a Diyarbakýr court to give flowers to his wife once a week for five months. The Diyarbakýr First Criminal Court of First Instance ruled that Hayrettin Çetintaþ must present his wife with a bouquet of flowers once a week for five months. Çetintaþ´s wife filed a lawsuit against her husband complaining he frequently beat her, according to the Anatolia news agency.

During Saturday´s hearing, Çetintaþ defended himself, saying that he beat his wife because she was not very helpful with daily tasks. He also said he had a second wife, who he married through a religious marriage (imam nikahý). “I have not been married to my second wife for long. In the family, we sometimes have problems. I don´t know whether it is because I am newly married; my second wife is a very easygoing person. My first wife, however, aggravates me so much. I am working as a doorman, and I get very tired during the day. I ask my wives to help me, but my first wife demands too many things from me: She asks me to rent her a new house. I may have been violent to my first wife and son,” Çetintaþ stated.

The judge asked Çetintaþ whether he had ever presented flowers to his wife, a question to which he replied: “I don´t know the birthday of my first wife or when we got married. I´ve never given flowers to her, either.” On hearing this, the judge ordered Çetintaþ to give a bouquet of flowers to his first wife once a week for five months. He also ordered the defendant to read five books on child development in five months, for beating his son.

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Nice try from this judge, but will it work? I doubt it. A guy stupid enough to beat his wife and kid will remain stupid!

 So he beats his wife and children and has to pay restitution by sending flowers and reading books..  I´m sure this method will definately deter him from committing the same acts.

 Hell NO it won´t work!  That judge should be beaten and then maybe he will rethink the so-called punishment he gives to low-life, scum bags who beat women and children.

Little Known Fact
The Turks first gave the Dutch their famous tulips that started the craze for the flower in England and the Netherlands. The bulbs were brought to Vienna from Istanbul in the 1500s and they were an instance hit.

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Carriages of one train came to rest on top of the other after hitting it from behind, although the cause is unclear.

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Chris Brown pleads guilty on assualt charges...but gets 180 days of garbage picking.  Sometimes or should I say most of the time I wonder about our court system.  I sit here and criticize the Turkish courts when it comes to men beating their wives.  However, it appears our courts are not much better.

I don´t understand how someone can beat a women and threaten to kill her, then get sentensed to 180 days of community service.  While we have non violent offenders (drug users) in prison.  Where is the commen sense in our courts.  An even worse slap in the face, is that a female judge accepted this plea bargain.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/06/22/chris.brown.hearing/index.html?section=cnn_latest

 Asolutely ridiculous....hmmm it´s definately a case of who you know and how much you can pay!!

what cayght MY eye today was every single status on FB and PM on MSN saying RIP to Michael JAckson- I mean - why are u so sad about the guy- i mean in the end all he was envolved in were scandals and courtrooms! The guy actually kinda disgusted me cause he changed his skin color and all the plastic surgeries and stuff but I mean , people-GET OVER IT!!!!

I dunno-maybe my words wouldve been different if i was growing up in the 80´s :S

Couldn´t agree more. His success made him an insane, stupid, self-centered person. He chose to spend his fortune on getting more freaky instead of helping others. There are people in the world whose deaths are truly sad - like the Palestinian families massacred by the Israelis, but we do not mourn those, instead we mourn a freak who had a life of privilage (for the most part!) and died in the comfort of his home at the age of 50!!

 For me, all deaths are sad. Michael Jackson was  known by billions of people. Everyone of those people heard his songs in a personal context, voluntarily bought his albums making him a big star and get him to enjoy a rich man´s life which unfortunately had certain mistakes, omissions  or sins in it just like everyone of us.

It is easy to give a brief account of someone´s life. Among many gifted musicians of his genre he stood out and remained that way for a long while. Although his songs no longer appeal to me, I appreciate his vocal technique and energy. It is not easy to be like Michael Jackson, people who were a lot more talented than us tried their chance but they could not clinch their names in the history of pop music as successfully as he did.

Not just Michael Jackson, everyone deserves to be felt sorry about when he is dead. The loss of a man is the loss of the entire universe from a dead man´s point of view.