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I also request for where it says "Type of sexual assault usually involving sexual intercourse without consent" in the infobox to be changed to "Type of sexual assault involving sexual intercourse or outercourse without consent" please. 2A0A:EF40:127F:CA01:C098:6A70:4979:5BD1 (talk) 19:01, 13 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The article describes an incident such as "Ottoman troops raping rebellious Bulgarian women." However, it doesn't mention any sanctions imposed on these soldiers.
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Rape and similar acts were forbidden in the Ottoman Empire and never had any legal exceptions. Even if such an incident had occurred, the author should have mentioned the sanctions imposed on those soldiers. A person reading this article who lacks knowledge of Ottoman history is likely to develop misconceptions about the Ottomans. Murat Barış Baksi (talk) 10:58, 13 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Anyone with a knowledge of history in general derived from historiography rather than recent Turkish-nationalist propaganda will be fully aware that, with more or less every empire, during every time period, and with occupational troops more generally, rape has been a serious enough problem that it has frequently been seen as necessary to prohibit and/or legislate against it. It seems safe to assume that the Ottomans did the same, for the same reasons: i.e. they forbade rape because acts of rape had in fact been occurring. Furthermore, the text in question is a caption to an illustration: Konstantin Makovsky's The Bulgarian martyresses, painted in 1877, around the start of the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878). And frankly, if you want to discuss the behaviour of Ottoman troops, you have picked a poor place and time to do so, given the well-documented atrocities that occurred. They were not alone in this, needless to say (their opponents also carried out well-documented atrocities), but claims of innocence are frankly ridiculous. AndyTheGrump (talk) 13:34, 13 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. meamemg (talk) 19:48, 13 October 2025 (UTC)
The redirect Digital rape has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 December 21 § Digital rape until a consensus is reached. Steel1943 (talk) 22:55, 21 December 2025 (UTC)