Woman Who Killed Husband After Years of Abuse Wins Freedom in Landmark Self-Defense Ruling
On 4/28/21 at 11:47 AM EDT
A court in Turkey has ruled that a woman who killed her husband had been acting in self-defense, in a verdict that has been welcomed by a women s rights group.
A court in Antalya heard harrowing testimony via video link from Melek Ipek, 31, about how she had been regularly beaten by her husband Ramazan Ipek, 36, throughout their 12-year marriage.
In her account in the indictment, she described how on January 6 this year, she had been handcuffed by her husband who hit her with a rifle butt and threatened to kill her and their daughters, aged nine and seven,