I don't have the impression that the behaviour of the Turkish police has anything to do with this theme.

Why should people be allowed to ignore the laws of the country they [have chosen] live in?

It depends. To tell you an example: In Germany, both members of the Jewish and the Muslim faith in large numbers ignore the German laws regarding treatment of animals when slaughtering them. A couple of years ago, our supreme court has accepted their right to slaughter animals in violation of the German law. The consequence is that if I would slaughter an animal their way because I might think it tasted better that way I would get punished but they wouldn't if they argued that they are following religious prescriptions.

The court has declared that the right to follow own's own religion is of higher value than a German law against animal abuse. One can have different opinions about that (I'm undecided) but we often allow people for religious reasons to be for instance louder than the law permits (bell ringing), but we would not allow for instance human sacrifices.

So in each case different values/rights have to be considered. And don't we all agree that abuse and killing of women should be treated differently from killing and abusing animals?

Wolfgang