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New Law Against Premature Marriage in Turkey

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Feb 2, 1915

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 42, No. 5.

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New Law Against Premature Marriage in Turkey

By W. C. Ising

The Department of Public Health of the Ottoman empire has just decided that hereafter the marriageable age for residents in European and Asiatic Turkey shall be eighteen years for boys and fourteen years for girls. For the warmer regions of Arabia and Syria the limit is two years younger in each case. The sheriat, or sacred law, fixes the limit for girls at nine years. In view of this fact, the new law is a decided step in the right direction. W. C. Ising.