HEALTH professionals in Turkey have hit out after security services demanded lists of the names of all women who had abortions in Istanbul between January 2017 and May 2019 as part of “terror investigations.”
Istanbul’s Provincial Directorate of Security demanded the confidential information by September 13 in a letter sent to every public and private hospital across the city.
The letter pressed health professionals to hand over the names of women aged between 30 and 40 years old with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), along with those who had terminations.
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