Turkish judge orders man who beat wife to distribute apology fliers

A woman judge in Turkey has ordered a wife beater to personally distribute 1,000 leaflets apologising for the act, the Turkish media reported on Tuesday.

Judge Aslihan Limon, 28, in the northern town of Arac served the ruling on Mustafa Kadinci who was accused of hitting his wife and then locking her up after a row.

The leaflet, which Kadinci duly distributed, read: “I apologise to my wife and all the people of Arac for hitting my wife.”

Judge Limon said in comments to the popular Milliyet newspaper that she had “received messages of congratulation from all over the country.”

“I believe it was an effective ruling,” she said. “I believe it is a good thing to defend the honour of a woman who was beaten.”

The verdict was given under a law on probation which came into force in 2005 as part of Turkey’s efforts to join the European Union.

Since then, judges have used it to hand out sentences such as planting trees, reading books or caring for stray animals, to small-time offenders.

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