Gokce, a soft-spoken 37-year-old mother of two, has lived on the run for 15 years, ever since her husband broke down a door and shot her in the leg six times after she refused to return to him.

Stoic and prematurely graying, she said her husband had since kidnapped her mother and stabbed her brother, trying to force them to reveal her whereabouts. She repeatedly turned to the police. But, she said, they chided her to return to her husband. One time an officer advised him to break her legs, so she could not escape.

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