Turkey is one of the developing economies of the world, where there is still a big social and cultural gap between the people living in the east and the west. There is a certain heritage that is carried from one generation to the other. The group that suffers from this heritage is the Turkish women , who face all sorts of suppression. Among the many challenges that women face in Turkey, child marriages and honor killings are the most common.
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