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Women in Turkey 土耳其妇女

Behind the veil 面纱背后

Women’s influence in politics is growing, but it is still small
妇女在政治中的影响越来越大，但这影响还是很小

May 12th 2011 | ISTANBUL | from the print edition

THIS week in Istanbul 13 European countries signed a Council of Europe convention on combating violence against women. All 47 members were urged to comply. Turkey pushed hard for the convention, which calls for hotlines, shelters and legal aid for abused women.

这个星期13个欧洲国家在伊斯坦布尔签署了一项有关与反对妇女的暴力作斗争的欧洲委员会条约。敦促所有4个成员国遵守。土耳其极力推行为受虐待妇女呼吁热线，庇护所和法律援助的条约。

So it should. Turkey ranks with Russia as one of the worst countries in Europe for abuse of women. By the government’s admission, five women a day were killed by abusers in the first seven months of 2009. A chilling new report from Human Rights Watch, an advocacy group, suggests that the situation is getting worse. It finds that 42% of women over 15 have suffered physical or sexual violence; they are vulnerable even when pregnant. Asli, a 21-year old Kurdish woman, was injected with poison, beaten and raped by her husband and in-laws, and locked in a barn without food or water. She decided to seek help from local prosecutors after her father-in-law burned her arm and declared that “I didn’t just get you here for my son, but also for my pleasure.” But the prosecutors never contacted her, and she now fears for her life. Asli’s story is all too common.

土耳其应该这么做。土耳其同俄罗斯一起被列为欧洲虐待妇女最严重的的国家之一。政府承认，2009年前7个月每天有五位妇女被虐待者们杀害身亡。一个利益团体（或利益集团）---人权观察的一项令人不寒而栗的新报道表明情况正在恶化。人权观察发现15岁以上42％的女性曾遭受过身体或性暴力行为；甚至她们怀孕时，她们还是容易受到攻击。一位21岁的库尔德妇女阿斯利（Asli）曾被注射毒药，被其丈夫及公婆殴打和强奸，并被锁在仓库里且不给食物和水。在她被她公公烧毁了手臂并声称“我要你来我们家不仅仅为了我儿子，而且还为了我自己寻欢作乐。”后，她决定从当地检察官那儿寻求帮助。但是检察官们从来没有联系过她，她现在担心她的性命。阿斯利的故事实在太普遍了。