CHILD ABUSE / CHILD SEX TRAFFICKING
Turkey: Islamist Sex with Children Is Fine; Condemning It Is an Offense by Burak Bekdil
March 2, 2023 at 5:00 am
- As the Turkish government’s topmost religious authority under Erdoğan, Diyanet is giving permission for an illegal act under the pretext of Islamic law: no obstacle for adoptive parents to marry, and consummate the marriage with, the adopted children who survived the earthquake.
- The fatwa runs up against the Turkish Civil Code, according to the Istanbul Bar Association’s Center for Children’s Rights. Article 129 of the Civil Code bans marriage between an adopter and an adoptee, and Article 500 grants adoptees the right of succession, the Center said, noting that Diyanet’s statements should not be against the Constitution or the laws.
- Then a worse blow hit: Diyanet has filed a criminal complaint against prominent columnist Fatih Altaylıı on the grounds that he shared “grave insults against the institution and its personnel” on social media. If Altaylı is to be blamed for his tweet, his only wrong should be that he did not insult a pedophilic religious institution enough.
- Erdoğan’s focus is not on the relief effort or on the national agony. Turkey’s broadcasting watchdog, RTUK, suspended the television stations Halk TV, KRT and Tele1, for three days and fined another, Fox TV, on grounds that “their coverage of the earthquake was unjustly critical of the government.”
- A general election is scheduled for this spring. The Turkish people and NATO deserve better.
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