A new law is set to be put to the Turkish parliament that would allow men accused of abusing girls under 18 to avoid punishment if they marry their victims.
The so-called 'marry your rapist' bill is set to be introduced to parliament for MPs in Turkey to debate at the end of the month.
Critics say the proposed law legitimises statutory rape, child marriage and allows child abuse and sexual exploitation to become rife. 




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The Turkish government proposed a similar bill in 2016 but was withdrawn after it sparked worldwide outrage (stock image)

Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been accused of sexism in the past after saying women are not equal to men and claiming feminists in Turkey reject the idea of motherhood.
Ahead of international women's day in 2018, Turkey's president blamed the media for a rise in cases of domestic violence against women and child abuse, telling journalists to not report such incidents. 
At Turkey's Women and Democracy Association in Istanbul in 2016, Erdogan urged women to have at least three children, saying a woman who rejects motherhood is 'deficient' and 'incomplete'. 
In 2014 Erdogan said biological differences meant women and men could not serve the same functions, adding that manual work was unsuitable for the 'delicate nature' of women.
The legal age of consent in Turkey is 18, but a government report published in 2018 on child marriage estimates a total of 482,908 underage girls were married over the last ten years.