LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Child brides in Turkey are often raped, beaten and forced to undergo virginity tests, according to the director of a new documentary which aims to break the ...

There are more than 180,000 child brides in Turkey, a female-rights lawyer has claimed. Around third of all marriages in the country are between an elder man and a child, according to statistics from ...

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim has withdrawn a bill that pardons men convicted of sex with underage girls if they have married them. The bill, part of a package of amendments to the legal ...

Turkey's main opposition party has called for a parliamentary inquiry after the directorate of religious affairs said that, under Islamic law, girls as young as nine could marry. The comments by the ...

IS bride Lisa Smith and her young child are expected to arrive in Ireland as early as Saturday. A small team of Defence Forces personnel flew out to Turkey on Friday tasked with accompanying the Louth ...