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| The Grand Turk |
| A shameful debate on incest in Turkey |
| 2017-09-06 |
| [Hurriyet Daily News] It all started with a news report two weeks ago. A half-famous, minor jet-set TV personality called Murat Basoglu was "caught" by paparazzi in a boat off the Aegean coast cavorting with a woman who is not his wife. It was later understood that the women in the boat was actually his niece, Burcu Basoglu Kabadayi, who is also married. She admitted that they had spent nights together with her uncle, after which her husband and the wife of Basoglu opened divorce cases demanding compensation. A prosecutor has also opened an investigation accusing them of "inappropriate behavior in public." The scandal has triggered a debate on "incest" in |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 I wonder if the spouses requesting the divorces are cousins to their spouses, and maybe cousins themselves. :-/ |
| Posted by: gorb 2017-09-06 01:13 |