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Fewer people in Turkey got married in 2019 while more got divorced compared to the previous year, said the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) on Feb. 26.

"The number of couples who got married was 554,389 in 2018, [versus] 541,424 in 2019, decreasing 2.3 percent," TurkStat said in a statement.

A new draft law over cases of sexual abuse against children is problematic, as minors under the age of 15 could also receive a sentence of eight to 15 years for engaging in sexual acts with each other, according to Istanbul University Prof. Dr. Adem Sözüer.

A man has received a record 132-year jail sentence for blackmailing a 14-year-old girl into having sexual intercourse with him. The court has also sentenced two of the man’s friends, who faced the same accusation, to 39 and 52 years in jail respectively.

A recent survey carried out by the Women’s Research Center at Ankara’s Gazi University has shed light on the severity of the problem of child marriages in Turkey, with many girls forced into marriages to “cover up sexual abuse,” daily Cumhuriyet reported on Jan. 21.

The first working day of the new year is called by lawyers as Divorce Day, as most applications for marriage dissolution are filed, the daily Express reports.

An active sex life is important to couples’ happiness, and they don’t have to go at it like rabbits: Those who make love once a week are happiest, a new study suggests.
More frequent sex isn’t a buzzkill for a relationship. It just doesn’t pack the same punch, Canadian researchers reported in the Nov. 18 journal Social Psychological and Personality Science.

"This incident is not like an accident or an earthquake. I will follow it until the last drop in my blood," a heart-stricken mother has pledged. Her power comes from desperateness. Her only haven is justice; however, justice is silent. 

A booklet giving sex advice to young couples, distributed by the local municipality in the western Turkish province of Kütahya, has drawn condemnation from both the government and the opposition.

Men guilty of sexually abuse of children may avoid being prosecuted if they get married to the victim, according to a controversial motion proposed by members of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) that has been harshly criticized by opposition parties.

Women want to have sex more than their husbands or boyfriends tend to believe, a new study reveals.

A team of psychologists at the University of Toronto and the University of Western Ontario have found that men in long-term relationships tend to underestimate how often their wives or girlfriends want to have sex.