Turkish girls to face expulsion if they fail virginity test

Turkey’s health minister has ordered that virginity tests can be performed on high school girls who are ‘‘known to be having sex or engaging in prostitution.’’

Turkish girls to face expulsion if they fail virginity test

Turkey’s health minister has ordered that virginity tests can be performed on high school girls who are ‘‘known to be having sex or engaging in prostitution.’’

The order by Health Minister Osman Durmus came despite a ban on the practice ordered two years ago after five teenage orphans took rat poison and jumped into a water tank rather than submit to the humiliating tests.

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