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TURKEY – STREET PROTESTS
ACROSS TURKEY AFTER WOMAN KILLED FOR ALLEGEDLY RESISTING RAPE
Protesters Took to the Streets in Ankara, Istanbul, and Mersin
By Jon Stone – 15 February 2015
Thousands of
women’s rights activists have taken to the streets in cities across Turkey after a woman was allegedly
killed for resisting an attempt to rape her.
The burnt body of Ozgecan
Aslan, 20, was found in a riverbed in the city of Mersin in the south of the
country on Friday.
Women in
Mersin shout slogans against the murder of a woman as they hold a picture of
Ozgecan Aslan - Police have arrested three men in connection with the death: a
minibus driver, his father, and a friend.
Officers
believe the driver allegedly tried to rape Ms Aslan, who fought back with
pepper spray but was then stabbed to death and beaten around the head with an
iron pipe.
Women
turned out to protest in the capital Ankara - Protests
took place in the country’s capital Ankara, its largest city Istanbul, and
Mersin.
Banners at
the protest read “Enough, we will stop the murder of women!”
Other
demonstrators carried pictures of Ms Aslan, whilst some performed protest
dances.
The vast
majority of the demonstrators were themselves women.