+ Life  |  By Kızkulesi

I was married at a child’s age (17). My parents had decided that it was a suitable match and I had not objected to their decision. I had been brought up not to oppose the family. At 17 I became a woman, at 29 a mother, at 24 a widow, but I don’t know at what age I became +.

Free of an eight-year long, cancerous marriage, I began to win back my life. I had started working and gained my financial independence. I had my driver’s license and had started working out. Extremely social, cheerful and lively, a woman who loved people and life, going on picnics, to concerts and rarely missing any social events, I was a girl who could not sit still..