The singer, Sila, filed abuse charges against her boyfriend, testing legislation that is supposed to protect Turkey’s women and children.
gave a voice to the large percentage of Turkish women who do not report abuse — and provided a model, she hoped, of how to fight back.
Though the law has provided survivors with greater rights, there have been numerous problems with how it’s been carried out, including a lack of reliable data on its effectiveness and a reticence by Turkey’s judiciary to punish men for abuse, according to women’s advocacy groups and a European experts’ panel.
Gencoglu said the abuse occurred at Kural’s apartment in late October, where he allegedly dragged her on the floor, hitting and kicking her multiple times in an attack that lasted for 45 minutes, she told the Turkish daily Hurriyet. A woman next door heard the violence and texted her boyfriend at 4 a.m., in messages that were included in the indictment.The witness said she heard Kural say: “I’m going to kill you.”who has been a fixture on the pop charts for more than a decade.
Rezan Epozdemir, Gencoglu’s attorney, expressed optimism that the harsh reaction to Kural was part of a changing tide in Turkey but said that momentum was critical “so that violence against women will not be normalized.” An independent European monitoring group reported that a “lack of any reliable official data fuels the perception that the authorities might not be willing to take the matter seriously enough and to face their responsibilities openly.”
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