Domestic violence in the United States

Money will be used to finance three priority targets to prevent domestic violence against both women and men.

The Ministry of Justice has allocated BGN 450,000 for programs to prevent domestic violence against both women and men in 2019. This was announced by Justice Minister Danail Kirilov.

The Turkish Education Ministry has determined schools where violence against teachers is believed to be a significant yet under-investigated problem.

The Greek Police (ELAS) has created a new department for dealing with domestic violence and providing specialist training to officers around the country on how to prevent and manage crimes within the family.

Staff at the new department will have specific guidelines on how to file and build domestic violence cases, on how to handle victims and also on raising public awareness.

An Ankara court has for the first time in Turkey ruled that a suspect of domestic violence be subject to almost all measures indicated in the law to stop him from inflicting violence on his ex-wife.

A court in the western province of İzmir has turned down a compensation demand from a victim of domestic violence, stating that the woman, who was under state protection at the time, had “failed” to call the police while being threatened by her ex-husband with a gun.

The Istanbul Bar Association has trained 4,000 lawyers to specialize in cases related to violence against women to help provide support for women who are victims of violence. 

"A total of 4,000 lawyers have become specialized in how to deal with women who were subjected to violence," Istanbul Bar Head Mehmet Durakoğlu told Anadolu Agency.

A total of 35 women were killed in September and 44 others were subjected to sexual violence, according to a report released by the Kadın Cinayetlerini Durduracağız Platformu, a women's rights activist organization that keeps track of violence against women. 

Poverty and fear are the major reasons why most women subjected to domestic violence in eastern Turkey opt not to take action, according to a new report released by a women?s rights group. 

Current efforts to prevent domestic violence are insufficient as a third of women worldwide are physically abused, according to a series of studies by the World Health Organization published on Nov. 21.

Between 100 to 140 million women are victims of genital mutilation and around 70 million girls are married before 18, often against their will.        

Some 287 women were murdered in the first 10 months of this year in Turkey, as additional clauses to the law on the protection of families are drafted.