During the ten weeks, an abortion is allowed for the following reasons: the pregnancy threatens the woman's mental and/or physical health, the fetus would be physically or mentally impaired, if the conception occurred through rape or incest, and economic or social reasons.
Finally, in 1983 Turkey decided to legalize abortions, as they do in Tunisia, during the first trimester no matter what circumstances the mother faces.
Statistics show that deaths of women caused by harmful abortion methods stood at 50% in the 1950s.
"[3] In 2012, thousands of people went out to protest against the anti-abortion law plan that the then-prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, had in mind.
Although this holds true and abortions are legal, being able to get non-emergency terminations at public hospitals is difficult.
A proposed law in 2012 stated doctors had the right to refuse to perform abortions for conscientious reasons, and could make waiting periods that would be mandatory.