Özet:

According to the Turkish Civil Law, a man and a woman cannot marry unless they are seven years old. However, the judge may allow marriage to a man or woman who is over the age of sixteen in exceptional circumstances and for a very important reason. In this study, according to the Civil Law, it was intended to investigate the sociodemographic characteristics of the facts made by judicial medical assessment by negotiating for early marriage. Measures and methods: Turkish Civil Law 124. According to the article, the 39 facts of the study that were treated for early marriage and the judicial medical assessment, examined the socio-demographic characteristics related to age, gender, education and marriage. The findings: all of the cases are female, and 53.8 percent (n=21) indicated that their actual birth dates and population records were different. The bone age of all cases was identified and the average age of 43.6 percent (n=17) was 1.9 (±0.9; min:1, max:4) of the identified age. 69.2% of the cases (n=27) were primary school graduates and 94.9% (n=37) had previously left their education regardless of the marriage process. 46.2% of cases (n=18) were married and 48.7% (n=19) were pregnant. The conclusion: In our region, all of the facts that under civil law deal for early marriage are women, and a significant part of their education has been left at the primary level. Nearly half of the cases are different from their actual birthdays and their identity ages, and they are two-year-old.