Although 3 and a half years later, the AKP has kept its word. AKP has prepared a draft law that decriminalises child marriage for children aged 14 and above. Within AKP there were discussions as to what the age gap limit between victim & abuser ought to be. Settled on 15 years. https://twitter.com/hasavrat/status/802070041588092929

Here is the draft bill. If passed into law some 280 convicts will be released. President Erdoğan has been framing this issue not as child abuse but that the families are damaged due to the criminal code that punishes men who marry underage girls. https://twitter.com/istbarochm/status/1249809559067262983

Casual reminder that it is also the AKP government that legalised marriage by imams, which use to be the utilised method to carry out underage marriages as well as bigamy.

And lest we forget that former President Abdullah Gül was 30 when he marries his wife Hayrunnisa, who was a couple of days shy of her 16th birthday.

Yes, and incase anyone misunderstands: https://twitter.com/defusertt/status/1249976011397246976