Bayram

Christmas is a holiday, but offices and shops stay open, whereas everything comes to a halt on Eid al-Fitr (called Bayram in Bosnia).

Spero News author unknown 2010

Prosecutors and judges routinely reduce charges and sentences for men who kill on grounds that their wives were adulterous, or in some way dishonored them, said Ms. Bayram.

Graphic Image Fuels Push to Protect Turkish Women Marc Champion 2011

Women's-rights lawyer Deniz Bayram called it an act of "media violence" that infringed on the victim's rights and dignity.

Graphic Image Fuels Push to Protect Turkish Women Marc Champion 2011

Sermet Guler, a National Geographic photographer told Turkey's NTV television there were an estimated 35 people inside the Hotel Bayram in central Van, where he too had been staying when it collapsed.

Powerful Aftershock Rattles Quake-Ravaged Turkey City Marc Champion 2011

Yet many legal changes aren't implemented, said Ms. Bayram, a lawyer with the Purple Roof women's-rights organization.

Graphic Image Fuels Push to Protect Turkish Women Marc Champion 2011

"Instead of being seen as individuals, women are seen as the loyal wife, the virtuous sister, the good mother and so on," Ms. Bayram said.

Graphic Image Fuels Push to Protect Turkish Women Marc Champion 2011

Khalili Collection of Islamic Art (r); The Trustees of the British Museum (l) Ivory sundial and Qibla pointer, made by Bayram b.

The British Museum's Pilgrimage Andrew McKie 2012

The current law on domestic violence, said Ms. Bayram, is called "Protection of the Family," underlining what she and Mr. Altayli see as the core problem in Turkey.

Graphic Image Fuels Push to Protect Turkish Women Marc Champion 2011

Colleagues of the two reporters from Turkey's Dogan news agency were among dozens of people waiting for news outside the wreckage of the Bayram Hotel, which fell apart when the 5.7-magnitude quake hit Van.

Turkey quake death toll rises to 25 2011

Rights groups hope, among other goals, that the new law will establish special police and prosecutors for domestic violence cases; that protections will no longer apply only to married women; that courts will be prohibited from considering passion, honor or other such factors as mitigating evidence in sentencing; and that police won't be allowed to promote mediation between women and the partners from whom they have sought refuge, said Ms. Bayram.

Graphic Image Fuels Push to Protect Turkish Women Marc Champion 2011