{"id":205274,"date":"2021-03-08T18:41:32","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T18:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/article\/the-sooner-shes-married-the-better-forced-marriages-in-georgias-azerbaijani-community\/"},"modified":"2021-03-08T18:41:32","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T18:41:32","slug":"the-sooner-shes-married-the-better-forced-marriages-in-georgias-azerbaijani-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/en\/article\/the-sooner-shes-married-the-better-forced-marriages-in-georgias-azerbaijani-community\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Sooner She\u2019s Married, the Better\u201d Forced Marriages in Georgia’s Azerbaijani community"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n A few days ago, less than a month since the
\n
\n scandalous story
\n <\/a>
\n of the betrothal of an 11-year-old Azerbaijani girl in the Georgian village of Ponichala, a photo was shared on social media from the betrothal of another underage girl. The photo was
\n
\n first posted
\n <\/a>
\n by an Azerbaijani blogger. \u201cAnother \u2018parental\u2019 crime! This is Georgia. Let\u2019s share [this photo] and save the child, let\u2019s punish the parents! Let\u2019s say \u2018no\u2019 to underage and incestual marriages. Girls should go to school and get an education,\u201d he commented.\n<\/p>\n

\n In the photo, the girl is holding a tray with cups of tea. According to Azerbaijani customs, sweet tea served to the suitor\u2019s representatives at an engagement ceremony symbolizes the consent of the prospective bride\u2019s parents to the marriage.\n<\/p>\n

\n According to the blogger, after posting the photo he was inundated with calls from Georgian numbers with threats, insults, and demands to delete it. Meydan TV was able to call one of the numbers. According to the person who answered the phone, he is merely an acquaintance of the girl\u2019s family.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cThe girl is 17, and this was just a betrothal. They\u2019ll have the wedding only after she turns 18,\u201d he told Meydan TV, although he refused to reveal the girl\u2019s name or location.\n<\/p>\n

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\n <\/iframe>\n <\/div>
\n \u201cThe Sooner She\u2019s Married, the Better\u201d
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\n
\n The law doesn\u2019t help
\n <\/b>\n<\/p>\n

\n Georgia occupies second place among the countries of Eastern Europe in terms of the number of underage marriages, although the country\u2019s official marriage age is 18. The law on marriage became stricter in 2016, and now marriage at 16-17 is allowed only by the decision of a court and only in special cases, such as after the birth of a child. Nevertheless, according to the latest Social Institutions and Gender Index, published by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in May 2019, 14% of girls in Georgia aged 15-19 are married. An annual report on human rights published by Georgian activists stated in 2018 that the majority of underage marriages are unregistered. Underage marriages occur primarily in Adjara and the Kvemo-Kartli region, where there are concentrated populations of ethnic Azerbaijanis.\n<\/p>\n

\n Meydan TV took a survey on the streets of the majority ethnic Azerbaijani Marneuli region of Georgia which also confirmed this fact.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cWhen I got married, my wife was 15,\u201d Marneuli resident Ruslan Sadigov told us. \u201cIn our mentality, if you look at it that way, it\u2019s allowed. At 11, yeah, that\u2019s too early, but at 14-15, I don\u2019t think that\u2019s a problem. I mean, getting an education isn\u2019t that important.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\n \"Marneuli
\n Inscription in a park “Everyone kills a loved one.” Marneuli, Georgia, February 2021.
\n <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\n \u201cI\u2019m from a village myself, and I would say that a majority of the people I know in the village get married underage,\u201d said Gulgun Mammadkhanova, a student at Tbilisi State University.\n<\/p>\n

\n According to Gulgun, underage marriages are relics of the past, supported mostly by the older generation.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cYoung people are starting to think that they should get an education and a profession, establish themselves,\u201d she said. \u201cBut the older generation has this belief that the earlier you get married, the better.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cWe witness new underage marriages almost every day,\u201d activist Tozu Gulmammadli told Meydan TV. \u201cPeople are really upset about it only because the video [of the betrothal in Ponichala] was shared on social media. We have spoken before about the relevance of this problem.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cAccording to the data we have, the highest indicator for underage marriages is in Tbilisi, and I think it\u2019s because of Ponichala,\u201d Shalala Amirjanova, a women\u2019s rights activist in Georgia, told Meydan TV in an interview. \u201cThe problem also exists in Kvemo-Kartli and Kakheti, but it\u2019s particularly serious in Ponichala, where there are more and more such incidents, and they call it a tradition.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\n \"Gulgun
\n Gulgun Mammadkhanova. Marneuli, Georgia, February 2021.
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\n
\n Social media to the rescue
\n <\/b>\n<\/p>\n

\n The betrothal of the underage girl in Ponichala (her fianc\u00e9, by the way, is also underage\u201415 according to relatives\u2014and he is the girl\u2019s first cousin) caused a major uproar. The video spread very rapidly among Azerbaijani social media users, who demanded a harsh reaction from the Georgian authorities.\n<\/p>\n

\n Azerbaijan\u2019s Commissioner for Human Rights, Sabina Aliyeva, also reacted to the incident. On February 8, she
\n
\n officially appealed
\n <\/a>
\n to her Georgian counterpart, Ombudsman Nino Lomjaria. In response to a query from Meydan TV, Sabina Aliyeva\u2019s office replied that \u201ctaking into account that this is a serious incident and it occurred in an Azerbaijani family, we asked the relevant Georgian government agencies to carry out an investigation and take necessary measures to defend the rights of the underage girl.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\n On February 9, the Georgian Interior Ministry responded by launching an investigation into the crime of \u201cforced marriage,\u201d but a month later the public still had no information about the course of the investigation or the outcome. It is known only that the girl\u2019s parents were summoned for questioning but, as they told Meydan TV, the issue is not a marriage, but a betrothal, and therefore no criminal case will be brought against them.\n<\/p>\n

\n Georgia\u2019s Deputy Ombudsman, Ekaterina Shkiladze, told Meydan TV that the Ombudsman\u2019s Office had the situation under control.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cWe submitted requests to all the relevant agencies\u2014the ministries of Education, the Interior, Health, and Labor and Social Security\u2014and asked them for information about the incident and related actions taken,\u201d said Shkiladze. \u201cFor us it is important to determine what this was\u2014an incident of domestic abuse or negligence on the part of the family. Right now we are collecting and analyzing all the necessary information.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\n The Ombudsman\u2019s Office also promised to complete its inquiry into the betrothal \u201cvery soon and announce its conclusions on its official site.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\n Shkiladze also admitted that underage marriages are fairly widespread in Georgia, which is related in part to the \u201cineffectiveness\u201d of the measures taken by government agencies to deal with the problem.\n<\/p>\n

\n \"Tbilisi,
\n Tbilisi, Georgia, February 2021.
\n <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\n
\n
\n \u201cGirls are told from early childhood that they\u2019re strangers in their own home\u201d
\n <\/i>
\n <\/b>\n<\/p>\n

\n
\n Shalala Amirjanova thinks that, although the incident in Ponichala served as a bad example, it is good that it generated such an uproar.
\n <\/i>\n<\/p>\n

\n
\n \u201cPeople see that the public gets upset about these things and protests against them, and so they try to exonerate themselves, saying \u2018it\u2019s our tradition.\u2019 But that\u2019s a mistake, you can\u2019t do that. Therefore, as activists, we try to demonstrate that this has nothing to do with Azerbaijani national traditions,\u201d states Amirjanova.
\n <\/i>\n<\/p>\n

\n
\n According to activist Tozu Gulmammadli, Azerbaijani families try to marry off their daughters as early as possible in order to shed their responsibility for them:
\n <\/i>\n<\/p>\n

\n
\n \u201cI would say that gender roles are the main issue. An opinion has emerged about girls that they are superfluous in the household, they\u2019re second class, and so they are raised specifically for marriage. Girls are told that that have nothing to do with their own home, they are strangers and they need to get married, while boys are perceived as continuing the family line.\u201d
\n <\/i>\n<\/p>\n

\n
\n
\n What about the government? The schools? The police?
\n <\/i>
\n <\/b>\n<\/p>\n

\n
\n \u201cThere\u2019s another problem here related to schools. What\u2019s going on in the schools? In theory, every parent is obligated to send their child to school, otherwise they are guilty of neglect and in violation of the law. But schools don\u2019t register girls who are not allowed to attend. School principals do not inform the ministry promptly. Although if the principal informed the ministry promptly, then these incidents could be prevented, while the girl is still only engaged, for example,\u201d says Gulmammadli.
\n <\/i>\n<\/p>\n

\n
\n According to the activist, the police are often aware of underage betrothals, \u201cbut they don\u2019t interfere, they don\u2019t want to stir up the public by publicizing these incidents.\u201d
\n <\/i>\n<\/p>\n

\n
\n Gulmammadli, who has experience working with victims of domestic abuse in Georgia, says that she has seen instances where girls who were forced into underage marriages ran away from home:
\n <\/i>\n<\/p>\n

\n
\n \u201cIf the child runs away and turns to the police, then either the parents are brought to justice, or the person who was supposed to marry her is arrested. I can\u2019t say that the system works perfectly, because the government\u2019s resources are insufficient. I mean, this is how it works\u2014the girl runs away from home, her parents are charged with a crime, and she lives in a shelter until she turns 18. Once she is a legal adult, she has to leave the shelter, and then they try to reconcile her with her family. Overall I can\u2019t say that the system works well here.\u201d
\n <\/i>\n<\/p>\n

\n \"Marneuli1.jpg\"
\n Marneuli, Georgia, February 2021.
\n <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\n
\n Breaking the chains
\n <\/b>\n<\/p>\n

\n 22-year-old Gulgun Mammadkhanova, a third-year student at Tbilisi State University, is from the village of Tekali in the region of Marneuli. Two of her older sisters were married underage, but Gulgun believes that a 14-year-old girl\u2019s place is in school.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cRight now she should be going to school and studying. Marrying off girls at that age is a bad habit, a disease even. And it is already ingrained in our consciousness,\u201d says Gulgun. \u201cWhether a girl or a boy, they must be supported to get an education. As a rule, underage marriages occur at the insistence of the older generation. They are the ones that usually support early marriage. And not only girls, boys also are the victims of underage marriages.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\n According to the student, she avoided an underage marriage herself thanks only to her own persistence, although \u201clike the whole village,\u201d her family began to talk about marriage as soon as she turned 13.\n<\/p>\n

\n According to a
\n
\n study
\n <\/a>
\n by UN Women, among ethnic minorities in Kvemo-Kartli, about 40% of women never finished middle school, about 7% of women received no education at all, and only 5% were university graduates.\n<\/p>\n

\n
\n with the support of the Russian Language News Exchange
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