According to foreign media reports on January 24, at the end of January this year, the Turkish parliament is preparing to consider a proposal called "Marry the person who raped you". If a man rapes a woman under the age of 18, he can escape punishment by marrying the victim.
▲ Critics of the Turkish parliament
believe that this legal proposal will legalize rape and child marriage as stipulated in the law, and exacerbate child abuse and sexual exploitation.
The United Nations also issued a warning, believing that once the law proposal is passed, it will legalize the rape of children, the abuser can escape punishment, and the victim will be more vulnerable. Z2z
opposition lawmakers also condemned the bill, pointing out that it would force girls to marry someone who violated their rights and encourage abuse.
The Turkish People’s Democratic Party is pushing the government to abandon this proposal.
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In 2016, the Turkish parliament considered a similar proposal, but it was revoked because it aroused public outrage. In the absence of the use of "force, coercion or other means of restricting the right to free choice", girls 15 years and younger can apply the 2016 proposed bill.
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Turkey’s legal age of consent is 18, but a government report on child marriage released in 2018 estimated that in the past ten years, a total of 482,908 underage girls were married.
(杨智婷)
