EU chefs turn up heat under Turkey

We have this week been batting around the implications, mostly unpleasant for both sides, of Turkey's joining the EU on TCS Europe, and along comes this interesting report - More than third of Turkish women justify beatings by husband: poll :
"The poll was conducted among 8,075 married women by Ankara`s Hacettepe University and was funded by the European Union and the Turkish government.
"The European Union, which Turkey is seeking to join, has put pressure on the Ankara government to better protect the rights of women."

Among the topics of the survey was domestic violence. They found that 57% of rural women agree that there is at least one thing which, if she did it, her husband would be justified in beating her. The most commonly cited beating appropriate offenses were "burning the meal, disputing the opinion of their husbands, spending money unnecessarily, neglecting the children or refusing to have sex." Among all women, urban and rural, beating approval dropped to a still substantial 39%.

I'll bet they didn't ask the more interesting questions like:
1) are women who believe that a particular behavior is a beating offence less likely than other women to commit that offense?
2) what do they mean by beating - a fist to the face or an open hand to the fanny or something else?
3) how often do husbands deliver beatings, how, for what offenses?
4) are husbands more or less likely to beat a wife who accepts beating in principle?
5) what's the correlation between these factors and marital satisfaction or divorce?
6) do beatings decline with age? if so, is this because wives behave better or do their husbands just give up?

Seriously, though, this survey further illustrates the difficulty of integrating a largely traditional society like Turkey into the militantly progressive EU. Technologically they may be only about a generation apart, but socially, its more like a century.