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Violence Against Women: 10 Reports / Year 200320 Turkish Daily News, IHD Calls Measures to Prevent Violence Against Women,November 26, 2002.21 Women for Women’s Human Rights, The New Legal Status of Women in Turkey(April 2002), p. 27.22 Int’l Helsinki Federation for Human Rights, Ibid., p. 454.23 Ibid., p. 455.24 Women for Women’s Human Rights, The New Legal Status of Women in Turkey,p. 26.25 Int’l Helsinki Federation for Human Rights, Ibid., p. 455.26 Ibid., p. 454.27 Women for Women’s Human Rights, Pinar Ilkkaracan, Islam and Women’sSexuality: A Research Report from Turkey (2001), published in Mary Hunt,Patricia B. Jung, & Radhika Balakrishnan (eds.) Good Sex: FeministPerspectives from the World’s Religions (New Jersey: Rutgers University Press(2001).28 Ibid.29 Ibid.30 Ibid.31 Ibid.32 Ibid.33 Women for Women’s Rights, NGO Report on Implementation of CEDAW inTurkey, January 1997, p. 11.34 Washington Post Foreign Service, Ibid.35 Working Towards the Elimination of Crimes Against Women Committed in theName of Honour, Report of the Secretary General, July 2, 2002, U.N. Doc.A/57/169.36 Ibid.37 See U.N. Doc CCPR/C/21/rev.1/Add.1038 See U.N. Doc. E/CN/2002/83 and U.N. Doc. E/CN/2002/74/Add.139 U.N. Doc. E/CN/2002/74/Add.1. p. 18.40 U.N. Doc. E/CN/2002/83, p.1841 Leylâ Pervizat, Honour Killings in Turkey: A Scapegoat: Article 462, Fempower,p. 10-11, No. 3, 3/2001.42 Information received from the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey in 1999.43 Women for Women Human Rights, The New Legal Status of Women in Turkey,2002, p. 29.44 Ibid.45 Int’l Helsinki Federation for Human Rights, Ibid., p. 44946 Ibid.; Amnesty International, Turkey, End Sexual Violence against Women inCustody!, 2003.47 According to information received, the number of female suicides is rapidlyincreasing in towns in Southeastern Anatolia, especially in Batman. During thefirst eight months of the year 2000, the number of recorded suicides were double376