OSMANLI DÖNEMİNDE KADINA ŞİDDET DAVALARI: ÇORUM ŞERİYYE SİCİLLERİ ÖRNEĞİ
CASES OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN DURING THE OTTOMAN PERIOD: THE EXAMPLE OF ÇORUM COURT RECORD

Summary/Abstract: Violence against women is a painful reality in every society, regardless of geography, religion, language, or race. While there are cases where women perpetrate violence against women, research reveals that the most severe violence against women comes from men. The Ottoman Sharia Court Records of the Çorum province, located in the Central Black Sea Region of Turkey, contain more than 200 records of cases in which women were subjected to psychological and physical violence. Based on the records in this study, we have analyzed 17 cases in volving violence against women, the first of which dates back to 11 Dhul-Hijjah 1257 and the lastto 14 Safar 1327. Without a thorough understanding of a society's historical and sociological past, the possibility of finding solutions to existing social problems is significantly reduced. There fore, the Çorum Sharia Court Records, which contain numerous examples of violence against women, allow us tounderstand the historical, sociological, and culturalfabric of the periodand to identify the impact of this phenomenon on the presentday. This study examines the women who experienced violence recorded in the Çorum Sharia Court Records. This study a imstohigh light the continuity of violence against women from the past to the present, even as the types of violence change, and tore it erate that women subjected to violence are not forgotten.

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