{"id":686,"date":"2026-08-13T14:33:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T14:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kitchenmagic.delicedcook.com\/?p=686"},"modified":"2026-08-13T14:33:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T14:33:27","slug":"at-21-years-old-my-husband-took-me-to-a-field-and-cut-off-both-of-my-hands-but-what-happened-afterward-made-an-entire-country-remember-my-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kitchenmagic.delicedcook.com\/?p=686","title":{"rendered":"At 21 years old, my husband took me to a field and cut off both of my hands\u2026 But what happened afterward made an entire country remember my name."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-start=\"31\" data-end=\"182\"><strong data-start=\"31\" data-end=\"182\">At 21 years old, my husband took me to a field and cut off both of my hands\u2026 But what happened afterward made an entire country remember my name.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"184\" data-end=\"289\">I was twenty-one when I learned that the man sleeping beside you can be more dangerous than any stranger.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"291\" data-end=\"553\">My name was Ay\u015fe, and I had been married for only eight months. In our village, people still called me \u201cthe newlywed.\u201d I was still learning how to live in my husband\u2019s house, how to speak softly, wake up before dawn, and hide my fear before it showed on my face.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"555\" data-end=\"749\">My husband, Mehmet Ali, was not a kind man. At first, I didn\u2019t call it cruelty. I called it a bad temper. I called it marriage, because that was what many women around me had learned to call it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 21 years old, my husband took me to a field and cut off both of my hands\u2026 But what&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitchenmagic.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitchenmagic.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitchenmagic.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitchenmagic.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitchenmagic.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kitchenmagic.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":688,"href":"https:\/\/kitchenmagic.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions\/688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitchenmagic.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitchenmagic.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitchenmagic.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitchenmagic.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}