A foreign woman was sexually assaulted and robbed by the driver of a public bus in Ankara at night last year.
A heavy penal court in Ankara had sentenced the driver, İbrahim Tuncay, to more than 34 years in prison after refusing his argument for a lighter sentence suggesting that the woman should not have been out in the street at 11 p.m. and she had “consent.”
After his request was rejected by a higher court, Tuncay had filed his final appeal to Turkey’s Court of Cassation.
The Court of Cassation’s 14th Penal Chamber upheld the earlier rulings in a final verdict on June 6, stressing that issuing the maximum possible sentence in the case was the right decision.
According to the ruling, going out at any time she wants is a woman’s constitutional right, which is under the guarantee of the state.