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Women in Turkey 土耳其妇女 Behind the veil 面纱背后 Womens influence in politics is growing, but it is stillsmall 妇女在政治中的影响越来越大，但这影响还是很小 THIS week in Istanbul 13 European countries signed a Council of Europe convention oncombating violence against women. All 47 members were urged to comply. Turkey pushedhard 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 ofwomen. By the governments admission, five women a day were killed by abusers in the firstseven 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 sufferedphysical or sexual violence; they are vulnerable even when pregnant. Asli, a 21-year oldKurdish woman, was injected with poison, beaten and raped by her husband and in-laws, andlocked in a barn without food or water. She decided to seek help from local prosecutors afterher father-in-law burned her arm and declared that I didnt just get you here for my son, butalso for my pleasure. But the prosecutors never contacted her, and she now fears for her life.Aslis story is all too common. | 
