Questions remain after controversial proposal is quashed

The government has withdrawn its highly controversial proposal which amounted to giving amnesty to the statutory rapists of minors after President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan intervened to quash it. Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ says the topic is closed and clearly wants the heated discussions it generated to end. 
In any true democracy, where accountability matters, a minister that endorsed such a bill and caused such a massive social outcry would have to resign. Turkey is not a country where such things happen. Government ministers usually feel they are the last person to blame in the event of a major social crisis or disaster that involves their portfolio. 

Under normal circumstances, the ruling party, which in this case happens to be the Justice and Development Party (AKP), would also have demanded the resignation of a minister that brought it ignominy and caused major political embarrassment for the country internationally.

Thanks to the legislative proposal which was clearly endorsed by Bozdağ, and also by Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım - because it could not have come to parliament without their approval - Turkey has gone down internationally as a country that is trying to legalize child rape. 

Bozdağ insists that ill-intentioned people who hate the AKP have misinterpreted the aim of the proposed legislation on purpose. He says there are thousands of cases where the woman was a minor when she married, and where she and her "husband" can't have their children registered because of the law on statutory rape. 

Bozdağ says all they wanted to do was to end the suffering of these "families," and argues that their proposal did not mean amnesty would be given to rapists. The majority of people, including many AKP followers, and all the...