Turkey has withdrawn a bill which would have pardoned men who engaged in sex with underage girls, if they had married the victims. The bill had sparked widespread protests across the country and had been criticised globally.

Around the time most of us were celebrating equal rights for women on the International Day for the elimination of Violence against women, Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, at an international conference on justice and rights for women, stated that women shouldn’t be regarded as equals because pregnancies would always be an obstacle in the […]