Family law

As someone who has addressed gender equality issues for years, I could not remain silent about the ongoing debates on incest in Turkey.

The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) Deputy Metin Külünk submitted a legislative proposal on Sept. 8 to the Turkish parliament, asking for those involved in consensual incest relationships to be given jail terms between eight and 12 years.

Külünk's proposal said the 104th article of the Turkish Criminal Law should add the following provision:

An incest debate is still going on in Turkey, amid all the other political and diplomatic issues facing President Tayyip Erdoğan.

It all started with a news report two weeks ago. A half-famous, minor jet-set TV personality called Murat Başoğlu was "caught" by paparazzi in a boat off the Aegean coast cavorting with a woman who is not his wife.

India’s Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down the Muslim practice that allows men to instantly divorce their wives–by saying “talaq” three times–as unconstitutional.

India's top court on Aug. 22 banned an Islamic practice that allows men to divorce their wives instantly, ending a long tradition that many Muslim women had fiercely opposed.

The Supreme Court ruled that the practice of "triple talaq", whereby Muslim men can divorce their wives by reciting the word talaq (divorce) three times, was both "unconstitutional and un-Islamic."

''We hope that by the end of the year or the beginning of the next, we will be able to present an already comprehensive project for public debate on a national strategy and move on to its adoption.'' This was stated by the Minister of Culture, Boil Banov, who presented the priorities of the government in the field of culture, reported BGNES.

I have an objection to the new draft law.

I have an objection to authorizing the muftis to conduct marriages.

With each new move, lives of women and girls are becoming more difficult.

Women are being repelled, women are being completely ignored.

She has gone towards being viewed as a decorative item.

The civil law was accepted in 1926 in this country.

The Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) "sees no problem" in a legal change allowing muftis, civil servants of the Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet), to register and perform marriages, MHP Deputy Group Chair Erhan Usta has said, voicing the party's support for the government's controversial draft law.

A controversial draft law allowing "muftis," religious civil servants, to register and conduct marriages will ease formal marriages and protect women in society, Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdağ has claimed.