| A prevailing issue in the entertainment industry when it | | | | lamenting wife on an interview with Boy Abunda at the |
| comes to celebrity marriage was the issue of | | | | Buzz. When repeatedly asked whether she was a |
| separation, annulment and divorce. Though its | | | | battered wife the actress just wept. She told him that |
| legalization in the country has long been and is | | | | there are really things that she will never understand |
| continuously being debated, most celebrity couples | | | | about Yilmaz culture and vice versa. She even said |
| tend to disregard the hullabaloo caused by such | | | | that it took her seven years to realize all of it and |
| matter. Taking into account the recent issue faced by | | | | ended her statement by saying that Filipinos are |
| the former beauty queen and actress Ruffa | | | | known for being patient. Appealing to the Filipina |
| Guttierrez with his Turkish husband Yilmaz Bektas. The | | | | mothers for sympathy she said that in one year it |
| four-year married life of the actress has been decided | | | | would really be impossible to cause a single argument |
| to bring to an end for reasons that up to now were | | | | to end a marriage for some it takes them 30 years or |
| quite vague and ambiguous for all the viewing public. | | | | more to swallow all the pain and frustrations just for |
| Last 8th of May news boomed in the show business | | | | the sake of their children. Their cultural difference has |
| industry that Ruffa was about to file an annulment suit | | | | been an issue due to the fact that she never seems |
| so as to end her ineffective marriage with his husband. | | | | to understand why they have to beat up women. |
| Assumptions then filled the thoughts of many people | | | | To answer the issues raised upon him in the country |
| as to what the real reason for their split up was. But | | | | last May 12, Yilmaz released his official statement |
| the public's criticizing eyes have been drawn to Ruffa | | | | through an email with Startalk saying: |
| as she and her mother Annabelle Rama started to | | | | "On the date of May 8, 2007, I was obliged to give the |
| appear in several entertainment shows while stating | | | | second most important decision in human life--divorce. |
| their individual explanation and accounts regarding the | | | | Unfortunately, the cause of this decision was once |
| issue. An interview with Ruffa by the Philippine star | | | | again my wife's close relations and one materialist |
| yielded a strong answer, "The issue is not love, its | | | | relative of her who take advantage over my wife and |
| self-respect." Another possible reason that rose was | | | | who have poor conscience and honor." Nobody ever |
| their "cultural differences," Ruffa was a born Christian | | | | thought that Yilmaz would still end up calling Ruffa a |
| but when she married Yilmaz, in order to pay respect | | | | traitor in the most current interview with ABS-CBN. He |
| for his husband she decided to have her religion | | | | also said that he loved Ruffa but he would have to set |
| converted to Islam. Though in one of her blog entries | | | | aside everything after all that has happened. |
| she said, "I did convert to Islam shortly after I married | | | | With both of them voicing their individual and disparate |
| Yilmaz, but as I continuously read the Koran and books | | | | justifications which lead to their life-changing decision |
| about Islam, Yilmaz and I also read the Bible. | | | | still left the public bemused as to what the real reason |
| Knowledge is power." Reports recently insinuated that | | | | may be. Yet one thing about them is evident, what |
| Ruffa already returned to Christianity. | | | | started as an envious and world-class marriage of the |
| Conclusion that Ruffa was a battered wife also stung | | | | couples Ruffa and Yilmaz now came close to end |
| the thoughts of the viewers as she appeared to be a | | | | with bitter commentaries from each sides. |
