Turkey's Trade Ministry on Feb. A culture of honor or horror β revisited. Siirt is typically an overwhelmingly Kurdish, conservative Muslim town, run by, apart from an elected mayor, a Turkish elite class of governors, prosecutors, judges and military and security officials. The number rose by 43 percent to 18, in The increase between and was nearly percent. Should we be surprised? It may be a good thing that at least child sex abuse cases have been rising, as it may illustrate bolder law enforcement against criminals β not like in Siirt.
But, empirically speaking, it is not too difficult to guess that the number of cases represents only the tip of the iceberg. In Ankara, for instance, 12 girl students at an imam school complained that their Quran teacher, S.
After an investigation was opened by prosecutors, S. So far so good. At least not another Siirt case. Recently, at the first hearing of the case, which was closed to the public, 10 girls who had complained about S. Suddenly three of them changed their minds and dropped their accusations against the suspect. Why, all of a sudden, did they decide that the man, whom they accused of a heinous crime throughout the prosecution process, was innocent? In their testimonies at the first hearing, the other seven girls insisted that S.
All 10 girls were in the courtroom with one of their parents β 10 parents. Now fasten your seatbelts. That left the number of complainants at nine: seven girls who accused S. In other words, five parents whose daughters insist they were sexually abused by their Quran teacher wanted to drop charges against the man who abused their daughters. Now we came closer to Siirt. Recommended Trump's Israel-Palestine Plan is a patchwork of failed attempts.
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