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[Get Real!]

All this crap about marrying first cousins and that is irrelevant to the CyProb so the sooner this thread dies or moves out of here the better!

[Costa]

Can anyone not give our friend from down under some practical advice about the pros and cons of this situation? He seems to be agitated to extreme and unable to cope with the Mohammed marrying a 7 year old 1500 years ago, and heading for a nervous breakdownunder.
Somebody somewhere out there must be able to help this poor soul find his way around this subject without having kittens. Unless the muslim fanatics have taken over in Turkey and it is too late already, in which case as he has contributed most to the negativity of the cyprus problem he deserves to have a nervous breakdown.

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[BirKibrisli]

The stinking sewer rat from down under tries to discredit and insult Turkey at every opportunity...Here he tried to turn a legal cultural practice into paedophilia,and accuses others ,without any evidence, of condoneing a vile act against children...He cANNOT SINK MUCH LOWER IN MY OPINION...bUT HE WILL CERTAINLY TRY....cREEEPY CRAWLER!!!

[boomerang]

here is cultural event right up your alley...you pathetic excuse for a human being...

[boomerang]

Suicide attempt highlights problem of child brides in

Monday, April 5, 2010
SEVİM SONGÜN

ISTANBUL - Hürriyet Daily News
The attempted suicide by a girl who is 54 years younger than her husband lights up once again the long-running controversy surrounding early marriages in Turkey, many of which are pursued for financial reasons according to one women’s rights organization. ‘I love my husband, but I did this because I was under pressure,’ says the 17-year-old girl


The contentious issue of juvenile brides in Turkey returned powerfully to the national spotlight Monday after reports of a 17-year-old’s attempt at suicide less than a year after her family allowed her marriage to a wealthy businessmen 54 years her senior.

Women’s and children’s groups have frequently decried the practice of child brides who ostensibly have their families’ blessings to marry before 18 but often face pressures to marry for an exit from familial financial problems. Similar suspicions immediately followed the news that 17-year-old N.T., who married 71-year-old Halis Toprak in July 2009, took an overdose of sleeping bills, blaming “internal family problems.”

N.T. and Toprak were married after she worked at his hotel in the eastern province of Kars for consecutive summers. Because she was under the age of 18, she had to obtain permission from her parents for the wedding. Their marriage was broadly criticized in the Turkish media due to the huge age difference between the couple.

On Saturday, N.T. was taken to hospital and then sent home after four hours of treatment, daily Hürriyet reported Monday. She told police officers that she had family issues. “I love my husband, but I did this because I was under pressure,” Hürriyet quoted her as saying Monday.

“This is a marriage for economic reasons, which is the general norm in many child marriages,” said Selen Doğan, general coordinator of Uçan Süpürge, or Flying Broom, a women’s research organization that has been leading projects to stop child marriages for several years.

Doğan’s belief is shared by many since N.T.’s family was receiving help from the local administration when the teenager went to work at the hotel, promising to “take care of the family,” according to Hürriyet.

“This suicide attempt should have been expected, as she was a 17-year-old girl under pressure,” Doğan told the Hürriyet Daily News & Economic Review.

Professor Nilüfer Narlı, dean of the sociology department at Istanbul’s Bahçeşehir University, told the Daily News that the issue of early marriage had been discussed at a recent United Nations meeting.

“Early or child marriages are an obstacle to a woman realizing her potential,” said Narlı. “Making a girl marry someone before she completes her mental and physical development – along with the subsequent early pregnancies – can cause many physical and mental problems.”

Campaign to raise awareness

Women’s rights activists, meanwhile, are planning to bring the issue to the nation’s attention through a new project. Aiming to end the practice of “child brides,” Flying Broom is embarking on a cross-country campaign to better inform the public by reaching 20,000 women in 54 provinces to help them fight against the practice of forced early marriages.

Doğan recently told the Daily News that Flying Broom would screen two short movies on the issue in each of the 54 provinces. She also said the group recently published a magazine article on the issue.

Under the project, which will continue for 18 months and is funded by the Sabancı Foundation, the association aims to collect 54,000 signatures from around the country for a petition demanding that lawmakers increase the legal age of marriage from 17 to 18.

According to the current law, 16-year-old individuals can also marry, but only under “extraordinary circumstances” and with approval from a judge.

“There is not enough data in Turkey to highlight this area and there is no comprehensive academic work or up-to-date figures,” Doğan said. The project further aims to close the information gap and send a report to relevant institutions.

The early marriage rate in Turkey is 37 percent on average, yet this figure increases to 68 percent in Southeast Anatolia, according to the association’s data.

Meanwhile, Parliament’s equal opportunity commission released a report about early marriages in Turkey, Anatolia news agency reported on March 23.

The total number of primary education students who drop out due to early marriage or engagements was 693 as of March 2009, according to the Education Ministry’s Primary Education General Directorate. Only 18 of the students were boys, the report said. The eastern province of Ağrı led the way with 116 students dropping out due to early marriages. In Turkey, primary and secondary school are merged and together are known as primary education for students until they are 15 years old.

The report said compulsory education should be increased from 11 years to 13 and that there should be deterrent laws against families who insist on not sending their children to school.

Illiterate women should also be educated and given support to start their own businesses, the report suggested.

Furthermore, soldiers performing their mandatory military service should be informed about the problems of early marriages while imams should emphasize the disadvantages of early marriages when delivering mosque sermons, the report said.

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=suicide-attempt-highlights-problem-of-child-brides-2010-04-05

wow turkey is really backwards in wanting a change hey douche bag?...

ask yourself why turkey today can see something wrong while you don't douche bag...

...carry on, there are plenty where this came from...i just love exposing morons...

He cANNOT SINK MUCH LOWER IN MY OPINION...bUT HE WILL CERTAINLY TRY....cREEEPY CRAWLER!!!

also you need to settle down coz judging by your confusion with your typing it seems you are ready to start kicking the cat...and i wouldn't put it pass you...
or
maybe just the mention of paedophilia and children brides is getting you too excited...

settle down little man...you are giving the inner workings of your pitiful, sexual deprived mind away...

[Lit]

here is cultural event right up your alley...you pathetic excuse for a human being...

One of the songs played at the wedding:

[BirKibrisli]

You are only exposing yourself as closet paedophile,you despicable creature...People who are obsessed with certain "taboos" are almost certainly fighting a losing battle with their conscience regarding their obsession...It is OK boomers,you live in Australia,help is nearby...Just see a psychiatrist and confess to your obsession with paedophilia,nobody will judge you harshly in Oz...And, who knows you might even be cured of it...

[Oracle]

The thread is about "first cousin marriage" ....

I have between 40 and 50 cousins but they are like brothers and sisters to me. I cannot comprehend how an "educated" man could contemplate marrying a "brother or sister". His actions set a precedent amongst the poor and uneducated ...

[Get Real!]

The thread is about "first cousin marriage" ....

Which is why it doesn't belong in the CyProb section...