A 21-year-old woman was attacked in a minibus in Turkey's İstanbul for ‘putting on a short skirt in the holy month Ramadan’. The attacker, who has been seized, is claimed to say something like ‘B.tch, shame on you to be dressed like this’ and punched the woman, according to her mother.
According to the daily Birgün, Melisa S., a 21-year-old woman, was attacked by a person for putting on a short skirt in Ramadan’ on June 14, 2017.
The mother of the young woman, Zeynep S., stated that her daughter had been mentally depressed since the incident and she was afraid of taking on public transport. She also stated that the attacker swore and insulted her daughter.
According to Zeynep S., the attacker punched the woman and hit her head to the window of the minibus, while another woman grabbed her hand in order to not let her get off.
Purple spots have appeared on the head of the young woman.
NOT EXCEPTION BUT ORDINARY INCIDENT
Attacking citizens for their clothing and not performing Islamic practices has become an ordinary incident during the rule of the Justice and Development Party (AKP).
Recently, in October 2016, Ayşegül Terzi, a 23-year-old nurse, was attacked by a man in a bus in Istanbul for wearing shorts, which ‘was not suitable’, according to the attacker.
A father and his son were attacked by a group of reactionary people in Mudanya, in the Marmara region of Turkey, on May 29, 2017, a few days after the beginning of the Ramadan for not fasting.
A reactionary group had attacked non-fasting students at the Ankara University and vandalised the university cafeteria on June 3, 2017.
