Did you say justice for everyone?

It was the year of 2011. G.K. was a first year student in law school when she was raped. After she was threatened and her psychology disrupted, she was only able to gain courage to complain two years later. 
Her case ended in 2015. Two doctors' reports from Istanbul University Çapa Forensic Medicine and İnönü University Forensic Medicine both stated that G.K.'s psychological health was permanently damaged in association with the sexual assault. The prosecutor also demanded penalty for the defendant. Despite this, the defendant was acquitted. The file is now with the Supreme Court of Appeals. 

Despite two medical reports in favor of her, the court sent G.K. to the Institution of Forensic Medicine. According to its report, G.K.'s psychology was not disrupted even though she was undergoing psychiatric treatment for three years, and was on more than one medication. The report concluded that her psychological condition was only "affected," and not disrupted, and that this could have been caused by other reasons, not necessarily the rape. 

"The meaning of this report was this for me: The fact that I was on medication for three years, I was having nightmares at nights, my nervous breakdowns, my shivering and being left out of breath in court were all insignificant. It was as if the nightmare I lived for three years was not real," she said. 

The acquittal was devastating for G.K. While the case was ongoing, she finished law school and became a lawyer. She is now 26 years old. She is not practicing her profession because somethings had died in her after the acquittal; mostly the sense of justice. 

She said she went through the insults of the defendant's lawyers during the trials, and the judges allowed this, the humiliating attitude of...

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