Dicle Kogacioglu talked about honor killings in Turkish society. Honor killings are crimes in which women are murdered by male family members in order to prevent shame or dishonor from coming into their families. Women were murdered for reasons such refusal of a arranged marriages and ethnic switching. In Dicle's case, women were murdered because of their sexual behavior. Dicle disapproves the fact that honor killings are viewed as a "tradition culture" and due to the tradition effect, which is the repeating of honor killings preformed by other families, women were losing their rights. Dicle also disapproves how law institutions reduces sentences for murders compared to regular sentences. It also depends on the crime. For example, Article 51 can reduce prison sentences by two-thirds if the murderer was suffering grief during the crime. Article 462 reduces prison sentences to eight years instead of twenty-four. That means the suspect can leave prison early and kill another woman if she did an "dishonorable" crime.
In Cynthia Enloe's reading, she talked about military abuse and the fact that women were not seen in politics. Women were mostly seen in places such as brothels and factories and are seen as third world women. It was interesting to know that women wanted their own constitution in order to gain women rights. The first was education; the second was freedom of speech; third was the right to vote; fourth was equal representation; fifth was equal judgements; sixth was equal pay rates; seventh was property rights; eighth was, relating back to Dicle's reading, rights of criminal charges against men for abuse; ninth was selling women; tenth was marriageable age change; eleventh was the right to divorce; and twelfth was the right to remarry.
My questions is relating to the seventh proposal of the constitution, why the law prevents women ownership of land and what kind of effect did they think it would have in institutions eyes? Does law institutions have their own supreme court?
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