[Shared
from the Facebook post of Half the Sky by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn] |
Forced
into marriage at 15, Berivan Elif Kilic seems an unlikely candidate for
politics. But the former child bride is now the newly elected mayor of Kocakoy,
a farming town of 17,000 in southeastern Turkey.
Until
five years ago, Kilic suffered daily beatings by the man she was forced to
marry. She divorced him at 28 and is determined to fight for women’s rights. As
mayor, she plans to organize workshops to inform women about their rights and
to give some basic education to town women.“People believe me when I talk about
domestic violence,” Kilic said. “I was beaten up myself; I don’t have my
knowledge from books."
Read more via The Daily Beast: http://thebea.st/OLGANz
Stephanie
Doty
Women’s
Issues Matter
April
10, 2014
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