Explained: How Özgecan's murder united, divided Turkey

The brutal murder of 20-year-old university student Özgecan Aslan has united ?and divided ? Turkey. Here is a summary of the heinous crime and its repercussions in five questions.

So few incidents in recent memory have managed to unite the people of Turkey, a country bitterly polarized over politics. Still, public reactions to the brutal murder of 20-year-old university student Özgecan Aslan have also included hints of what divides the country.

Here is a summary of the heinous crime and its repercussions in five questions:

1) What happened to Özgecan Aslan?

Özgecan Aslan, who was a psychology student at Ça? University in the southern Turkish province of Mersin, was killed on Feb. 11. Her burned body was found in a river bed two days after her family reported her missing. The driver of the minibus she boarded to return home confessed to the murder. He was arrested on Feb. 16 with two of his accomplices.

2) What are people in the street saying?

Thousands of people have been hitting the streets in an unprecedented demonstration of mourning and anger since the funeral on Feb. 14. Although the imam requested women step back during the ceremony, hundreds of women attending the ceremony paid him no heed, carrying Aslan?s coffin before and after the prayer. Elsewhere in Turkey, several women slammed the male-dominated system for perpetuating the problem of women?s murders and domestic violence. At the same time, some conservative voices have blamed ?Western lifestyles? for fueling instances of rape, angering many. "I am potentially dead," Hürriyet columnist Melis Alphan wrote Feb. 16.

3) What are politicians saying?

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an?s two daughters paid a visit to the victim?s...