Some Turkish women 'back beating'
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A new poll says more than a third of Turkish women believe domestic violence is justified in certain circumstances.
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Videotapes of riot squads subduing troublesome terror suspects at the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay show the guards punching some detainees, tying one to a gurney for questioning, and forcing a dozen to strip from the waist down, according to a secret report. One squad was all female, traumatizing some Muslim prisoners.
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Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has defended plans to outlaw adultery that have outraged women&#39;s groups and raised eyebrows in the European Union, which Turkey aspires to join.
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Women who say they were sexually assaulted in Iraq by co-workers have found themselves unable to seek justice.
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Security forces outnumbered demonstrators at a tiny gathering yesterday afternoon commemorating International Women's Day, which was squelched by an aggressive campaign of detentions in preceding days. The days surrounding Women's Day have traditionally been marked by boisterous street demonstrations by human rights activists demanding an end to Islamic laws condemned as sexist and discriminatory. About 50 demonstrators ...
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SULAIMANIYA, Iraq  - Turkish warplanes bombed villages deep in northern Iraq early on Sunday, killing one woman and wounding two other people in one of the heaviest raids against Kurdish rebels in months, local officials said.
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Women&#39;s bodies have become part of the terrain of conflict, according to a new report by Amnesty International. Rape and sexual abuse are not just a by-product of war but are used as a deliberate military strategy, it says.
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A row erupts in Austria over three girls who were cut off from the outside world by their mother for seven years.
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Prosecutors said today two Indonesian women kept by a wealthy couple were beaten, doused with scalding water and forced to repeatedly climb stairs as punishment.
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Two women whose testimony in a child molestation case put a man behind bars for 20 years have recanted, with one saying her grandmother pressured them to finger the wrong man to protect a cousin.
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Under huge pressure from the European Union, Turkey back-pedaled away from a bill to re-criminalize adultery on Tuesday. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who over the past few days repeatedly spoke
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Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has defended plans to outlaw adultery that have outraged women's groups and raised eyebrows in the European Union, which Turkey aspires to join.
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The top court in Turkey attacks PM Tayyip Recep Erdogan for his criticism of a key constitutional ruling.
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A small but growing movement seeks to help Muslim American women who are affected by domestic violence.
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Amid protests from womenâs groups and warnings from the EU, Turkeyâs government agreed to measures that would appear to scuttle its plans to introduce legislation making adultery a crime.
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On one hand there is the European Union, demanding Turkey reform its criminal code. On the other, a powerful group of conservative Muslims who insist such changes should include criminalizing adultery.
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Despite tough odds, some Mideast women are gaining power.