Outrage at the verdict by the Court of Appeals. The Court upheld the decision for reduced punishment in the case of the mass rape of a 12-year-old girl based on the assumption that the girl gave her consent to the rape. Thereby, 26 defendants mostly public servants such as police officers, civil servant, soldiers, village guards, Education Ministry workers etc. will serve minimum penalty limits.

First, the local court decreed on the consent assumption last year and now upheld by the Court of Appeals.

N.Ç.'s lawyer Reyhan Yalçýndað and Eren Keskin pointed out that their client's case was not a singular incident as there are several similar cases.

Yalçýndað criticized the fact in the legal system of Turkey. "As usual, - she said - a decision contrary to the law has been upheld. Hereby, it has been registered in Turkish law that a 12-year-old child agreed to being raped and gave her consent. In other words, she is twelve years old but she endured being raped by 32 men over the period of one and a half years and she gave her consent as well etc. This is contrary to science too. Only standing the physical pain is torture in itself. Saying that there is any consent is ridiculous".

The case is currently being investigated by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).