Turkey’s Constitutional Court has rejected a challenge on grounds of equality to a provision putting married women in their husbands’ family registries, a rule long criticized as gender discrimination, the Yeni Özgür Politika news website reported. Under the provision, a woman’s registration is transferred to her husband’s family registry upon marriage. The İstanbul court also said there was no legitimate justification for making the husband’s family registry the basis for recording a married couple. The Constitutional Court rejected the request for annulment by a majority vote, describing the practice as a technical form of administrative record-keeping. Five members of the Constitutional Court dissented.