In the case when violence against women is condemned even more on the International Women’s Day—which is celebrated every year on March 8—, Mehmet Demirer, the head of the Kirikkale Provincial Office of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), unpleasantly surprised everyone with his “greetings” to women.
In his Facebook account, the Turkish party official congratulated women in connection with the women’s day, but gave an astonishing advice to men, Hürriyet daily of
“You have received women as a gift from God. You have rights toward women, and they, toward you. If they do something without your permission, you may scare them by beating them lightly,” Demirer wrote.
