Turkey’s top police body has appointed a female police officer as the head of a newly-founded bureau in the Istanbul Police Department, one among dozens that were established across the country specializing in domestic violence against women and children.
Kıymet Bilir Değerli, 39, was appointed as head of the Istanbul Police Department Public Order Unit Bureau for Fighting Domestic Violence Against Women and Children by the Turkish National Police (EGM), as Turkey established new police bureaus across the country to fight domestic violence involving women and children.
The move to establish the bureaus in all of Turkey’s 81 provinces emerged as a result of plans by the Family and Social Policies and Interior Ministries to reduce violence committed against women and children. – READ MORE
