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Turkey: Court releases Muslim who attacked woman for wearing shorts during Ramadan

Jun 24, 2017 9:56 am By Robert Spencer

Prosecutor Mehmet Ali Yıldız “filed an objection to the decision at a higher court, the 6th Court of Peace.” The woman who was attacked says: “I have not, until now, said anything bad to justice; I thought it had a conscious [sic]. Such justice is a crying shame!”

Indeed. But it will be extremely difficult for her to get justice in Erdogan’s Turkey. The Qur’an says to beat a woman “from whom you fear disobedience” (4:34), and that is likely to be that.

An update on this story. “Istanbul court releases man who attacked woman for ‘wearing mini-shorts’ pending trial,” by Aziz Özen, Hürriyet Daily News, June 23, 2017:

An Istanbul court has released an assailant who faces charges for attacking a 21-year-old woman “for wearing shorts” on a bus in the city.

A day earlier, an Istanbul prosecutor issued an arrest warrant for Ercan Kızıltaş, who was caught on camera on June 14 attacking the woman, Melisa Sağlam, for “wearing mini-shorts during Ramadan.”

On June 22, Kızıltaş appeared before the Istanbul 5th Court of Peace and said he was “sorry” for his actions on the bus.

“I just made a comment [to Sağlam on the bus ride] with good intentions. It is the month of Ramadan, and as it is the blessed month [of the year] and ill-gotten, I told her to dress appropriately. She was wearing mini shorts. She told me then not to look [at her]. Then on my way out [of the bus] I lightly hit out toward her face with the back of my hand. The incident occurred in an instant and I am sorry for it. Before smacking her, she insulted me, and that offended me. I did not step in first, but then that hurt my pride, and I hit her lightly with the back of my hand,” Kızıltaş told the court.

Following Kızıltaş’s testimony, the court released him pending trial, indicating that the incident was restricted to “actual bodily harm.” Prosecutor Mehmet Ali Yıldız, however, filed an objection to the decision at a higher court, the 6th Court of Peace.

Meanwhile, media outlets recorded Kızıltaş as telling cameras in the courthouse that he did “not accept the accusations of battering.”

“In the footage, there is no clear view of any beating. I am also involved in the case. She [Sağlam] swore at me. She also attacked me. Didn’t you see the footage? I am also making a complaint about her. My respect for a woman who knows herself is endless,” he said.

Following the court’s ruling, Sağlam protested on her Twitter account, saying: “On top of it, [Kızıltaş] is still talking; how shameless! I have not, until now, said anything bad to justice; I thought it had a conscious [sic]. Such justice is a crying shame!”…

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Filed Under: Featured, Turkey, women's rights in Islam Tagged With: Ercan Kızıltaş, Istanbul, Melisa Sağlam


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  1. WPM says

    Jun 24, 2017 at 10:12 am

    His pride was hurt is anything more fragile then Islamic man,s pride. So I hit her there you go hurt pride = justify violence, Islam in a nut shell. His pride was hurt because he did not like the woman,s manner of dress .Enforcement of Sharia law onto everyone is an extension of his Islamic male pride!

    • Manny says

      Jun 25, 2017 at 4:55 am

      Exactly my thoughts when I read that. Pride is the most unChristian of sins.

    • harbidoll says

      Jun 25, 2017 at 6:20 am

      In Egypt a girl riding a bike was shot dead cuz she raised her voice, talking back at a guy who yelled something nasty at her.

  2. CogitoErgoSum says

    Jun 24, 2017 at 11:55 am

    What a despicable coward this man appears to be …. slapping the young woman in the face on his way off the bus and then running away when she rises to defend herself. He talks about a holy month and says he has respect for women. What a sick joke that is. I have no respect for such a man and no respect for a religion that would provide the justification for acting in such a manner.

    • harbidoll says

      Jun 25, 2017 at 6:22 am

      ” did not Mohamad run across the street to slap a strange woman who was dressed immodestly “. Koran

  3. Phil says

    Jun 24, 2017 at 12:00 pm

    This is what leftists are threatening to bring here to Dearborn and Minneapolis. Shariah.

    • WPM says

      Jun 24, 2017 at 1:15 pm

      The trouble is the leftist snow flakes hate Christians and Jewish Western ways more then they fear Islam. They think they can use Islam to change the Western world then put there cute monster of Islam back in a box to forget about it. The first people they behead, throw off a roof, burn in a cage will be the snowflakes if Islam get the upper hand in a country . This little short film of a Islamic man on a bus slapping a woman who is a stranger to him over his hurt “pride” is nothing compared to what he would do a western women snowflake. The snowflake would not even fight back I give the woman on the bus some credit she defended herself is she did not I sure the man who of keep hitting her..

      • ibrahim itace muhammed says

        Jun 24, 2017 at 1:32 pm

        wpm,so you prefer beast way of your forefathers who walked naked with their women like monkeys in the bush? wpm,cherish sharia code of conduct.it is nice!!

        • mohamonator says

          Jun 24, 2017 at 1:42 pm

          TROLL!! DO NOT FEED!!

        • don vito says

          Jun 25, 2017 at 12:12 am

          itace, for your sanity, you must stop studying Islamic texts, the texts are “madding”, as proven by what you post. A warning from a kufr, beware!

        • Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

          Jun 25, 2017 at 4:10 am

          There you go again with this bestiality thing Ibbie. You gotta stop that; you’re giving Mohammadism a bad name!

        • Carolyne says

          Jun 25, 2017 at 11:31 am

          Personally, I prefer to walk naked wherever I go. I especially love nude beaches. Do you know here is a naked beach in the Islamic paradise of Turkey? Take this young women’s advice. Don’t look. It’s not your business to decide what a woman wears or if she prefers to wear nothing, that’s still not your business. So, Allah appointed you to decide what people should wear? I don’t believe in Allah and I don’t believe in you.

  4. Charli Main says

    Jun 24, 2017 at 12:35 pm

    ” My respect for a woman who knows herself is endless”

    Muslim speak for a woman who covers herself from head to foot in a black bin bag, walks 5 paces behind a man and never complains about her clitorectomy.

    • somehistory says

      Jun 24, 2017 at 2:44 pm

      And will suffer “endless” beatings and possible death after being forced to *marry* the beast anytime she *steps out of line and quits “know…ing herself” by having her own ideas or not. On a whim, he decides she doesn’t “know herself.”

  5. mohamonator says

    Jun 24, 2017 at 1:27 pm

    In more news from the mohammedan paradise that is Turkey:
    “Turkey bans Istanbul Pride, organizers vow to march anyway”
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/once-cheering-diversity-istanbul-braces-for-pride-week/2017/06/24/a922b698-58d5-11e7-840b-512026319da7_story.html

  6. SAM says

    Jun 24, 2017 at 2:23 pm

    Please don’t think this same shit is not happenning in America in the “moderate” Muslim areas. We just don’t hear it.

    Honor in Islam means women must behave the way men want them to behave. There is no other honor code. Everything goes unless something does not fit their current agenda. Islamic culture is a sick , good for nothing, evil culture. Islam must be eradicated from the face of earth. NOW.

    • Nigel GFF says

      Jun 24, 2017 at 4:33 pm

      “We just don’t hear it.”

      How right you are. Let’s not forget the other wise monkeys: see no evil and speak no evil, lest senor PC is disturbed.

  7. Carole T. says

    Jun 24, 2017 at 3:27 pm

    Turkey is now an Islamic dictatorship/Caliph. Erdogan has done his best to oust every freethinking, secular opposition person he can. Women might as well don the higab and full Islamic garb like Iran because that’s where the country is heading. Turkey is in cahoots with the Muslim Brotherhood and their desire is to rule the world and that means women are only allowed to be “helpmates” and vessels. All Westerners should steer clear of Istanbul while this regime is in place. Find a place that is less repressive.

    • Anne Smith says

      Jun 25, 2017 at 6:05 am

      This little film should go viral – it could help people to decide where they should go for their holidays, these days Turkey might not be the most pleasant place for Westerners to go and enjoy the sunshine.

      Erdogan is too much of an Islamist to care about the country’s economy which has become heavily dependent on tourism from the West. Ideological purity tops the economy every time, exactly as was happening in Egypt under the Muslim brotherhood until Sisi and the Army ousted them.

  8. pnr says

    Jun 24, 2017 at 4:15 pm

    http://www.stephen-knapp.com/women_in_vedic_culture.htm

    Women are not objects or possessions. Absolute spiritual equality exists between man and woman.

    • Monty says

      Jun 24, 2017 at 8:50 pm

      Islam begs to differ. A woman is worth half a man. The insanity is that some women are actually attracted to Islam. Some of those wish that they had not converted but not all. It’s much easier to become a Muslim than it is to change your mind later!

  9. davej says

    Jun 24, 2017 at 11:41 pm

    Muslims are control freaks, if anything doesn’t go their way they immediately become “offended” and think it is their perfect right to strike out at the “offender”.

    It is an ideology that most suits psychopaths, tyrants and the mentally challenged.

  10. Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

    Jun 25, 2017 at 4:12 am

    Sarcasm: … and if he would have used bacon in the attack he would got a felony conviction that would have followed him for the rest of his life, and 5 years probation.

  11. Gordon Miller says

    Jun 25, 2017 at 4:43 am

    Not much of an “attack.”

    • Susan B says

      Jun 25, 2017 at 8:13 am

      Really, so a young female being back handed and called names by a thug is not much of an attack. What do you consider a reasonable attack, perhaps acid in the face, a stoning? If there is only a fist involved it does not rate. Tell that to the millions of muslim females being knocked around on a daily basis with no recourse but silent suffering.

  12. John Fofrbes says

    Jun 25, 2017 at 11:07 am

    Realistically I believe SHARIA will come to TURKEY in the NEXT FEW YEARS as ERDOGAN continues his intentions to return TURKEY to the SIZE & so called CALIPHATE of the OTTOMAN EMPIRE !
    He seeks to undo the TURKEY of ATATURK & judging by his current popularity & ability to INTIMIDATE the Europeans at will he will continue !
    There is simply no WILL IN EUROPE to confront either ISLAM or TURKEY ! EUROPE seems to be WORN PUT & TIRED & led by EITHER AGING COWARDS or HOPEFUL WEALTHY NEW COWARDS who refuse to stop the STRATEGY of HOPING that ISLAM in the end will BEHAVE !
    With a 1400 year history of Continual war – the odds are heavily STACKED against HOPE !!

  13. Carolyne says

    Jun 25, 2017 at 12:11 pm

    When I used to go to Turkey, several years ago but I will never go again, Turks were very proud of Ataturk and what he achieved. I believe the older generation still has this pride, but likely the younger generation has been brainwashed in school and they are like our young people now.

  14. Sarah says

    Jun 26, 2017 at 3:09 am

    Difficult for her to get justice in Erdogan’s Turkey? I’d say its downright impossible for her to get justice for this.

    She’ll be lucky if she escapes without punishment herself. Way too many Turk’s voted for this. Remember that.

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