Fury as Turkey votes to make child rape LEGAL for men who MARRY their victims
TURKISH MPs have lent their backing to a disgusting new bill which will make child rape legal for men who then go on to marry their victims.
By NICK GUTTERIDGE
Express.co.uk
Sat, Nov 19, 2016
In a move which has shocked world politicians, the Muslim majority country proposed exonerating paedophiles en masse.
Hardline president Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government insists that the new law is designed to pardon men who did not realise they were having sex with underage girls.
But critics have reacted with open fury to the legislation, saying it officially legitimises both deliberate child rape and forced child marriages.
It comes after a shocking rise in violence against women in Turkey, which has risen by 40 per cent in the past decade.
The shocking bill, which sill surely provoke an astonished reaction from the EU, was approved on a preliminary basis yesterday after being put to parliament by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).
Opposition MP Ozgur Ozel raged: “Sexual abuse is a crime and there is no consent in it. This is what the AKP fails to understand.
“Seeking the consent of a child is something that universal law does not provide for.”
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