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Turkeythe country average, with a rate of 6.42 for every 1,000 members of the population.Moreover, 80.8% of the people committing suicide in Batman were womenand the majority of these were aged between 13 and 24 years. Other reasons mentionedbesides the importance of virginity and forced marriage are high unemploymentrates, inadequate housing and social and cultural problems between thepeople who have always lived in Batman and the immigrants from rural areas.Mehmet Faraç, in Töre K*skac*nda Kad*n.48 Leylâ Pervizat, Panel Presentation, Centre of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law,February 15, 2002.49 Amnesty International, Ibid.50 This Directorate General was originally linked to the Prime Minister’s office, butdue to a recent change implemented by the current government, it is now linkedto the Worker’s and Social Security Ministry, which effectively means that thestaff, scope and importance has been reduced.51 International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights, A Form of Slavery:Trafficking in Women in OSCE Member States, Report to the OSCESupplementary Human Rights Dimension Meeting on Trafficking in HumanBeings, 2000, p. 59.52 Anti Slavery International, Redefining Prostitution as Sex Work on theInternational Agenda, 1997, p. 24.53 Ibid.54 U.S Department of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2000,February 2001.55 U.S. Department of State, Trafficking in Persons Report, Victims of Traffickingand Violence Protection Act 2000, p. 103.56 Associated Press, Turkish Government Trying to Crack Down on ‘Evil’ ForeignProstitutes, June 9, 2002.57 U.S. Department of State, Trafficking in Persons Report, Ibid., p. 103.58 Human Rights Watch, World Report 2003.59 Article 135(A) Criminal Procedure Law.60 European Union, 2002 Regular Report on Turkey’s Progress Towards Accession,pp.26-27.61 U.N. Doc. E/CN.4/199/61/Add 1, paras 17, 39, and 107.62 Report of Special Rapporteur on Torture, U.N. Doc. E/CN.4/2001/66; Report ofSpecial Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions on herMission to Turkey, U.N. Doc. E/CN/2002/74/Add.1; European Committee for thePrevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment,Preliminary Observations on visit to Turkey, 23 July 2002, available athttp://www.cpt.coe.int/documents/tur/2002-13-inf-eng.pdf.63 HRW Press Release, Curbing Torture Top EU-Turkey Priority, January 30, 2003.64 Hits and Misses on Turkey’s E.U. Accession Targets, HRW Backgrounder on theEuropean Union Regular Report on Turkey, Oct. 7, 2002.65 2002 EU Regular Report on Turkeys Progress Towards Accession, p. 28.66 Preliminary Observations of CPT on visit to Turkey from 21 to 27 March 2002,p. 6.377
Violence Against Women: 10 Reports / Year 200367 Ibid.68 Ibid., p. 8.69 Report to the Turkish Government on the visit to Turkey carried out be theEuropean Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or DegradingTreatment or Punishment from 2 to 14 September 2001.70 Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions, Reporton her Visit to Turkey; U.N. Doc. E/CN.4/2002/74/Add.1. See also U.N. Doc.E/CN.4/1999/61/Add.1.71 U.N. Doc. E/CN.4/2002/74/Add.1, p.25.72 Ibid.73 Human Rights Watch, World Report 2003, p. 3; Amnesty International, Turkey:An End to Torture and Impunity is Overdue, October 2001, p.24.74 Amnesty International, Ibid, p. 24.75 Ibid, p. 36.76 Ibid, p. 36.77 E.U. 2002 Regular Report on Turkey’s Progress Towards Accession; AmnestyInternational, Ibid.78 Amnesty International, Ibid.79 E.U. 2002 Regular Report on Turkey’s Progress Towards Accession, p. 29.80 Amnesty International, Ibid.81 Human Rights Watch, A Human Rights Agenda for the Next Phase of Turkey’sE.U. Accession Process, HRW Briefing Paper, January 2003.82 The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders – OMCT andFIDH, Human Rights Defenders on the Frontline, Annual report 2002, p. 204.83 Amnesty International, Turkey: Systematic Torture Continues in Early 2002,September 2002; U.N. Doc. E/CN.4/1999/61/Add.1.84 Report to the Turkish Government on the visit to Turkey carried out be theEuropean Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or DegradingTreatment or Punishment from 2 to 14 September 2001, p. 25.85 E.U. 2002 Regular Report on Turkey’s Progress Towards Accession.86 U.N. Doc. E/CN.4/2002/74/Add.1, p. 25.87 Cases received from Feray Salman, Secretary General of the Human RightsAssociation of Turkey (IHD), Ankara.378
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