1st Criminal Court for Serious Crimes

A man convicted of murdering of 20-year-old college girl Özgecan Aslan was killed in a gun attack in a prison in the southern province of Adana on April 11.

Ahmet Suphi Alt?ndöken and his father, Necmettin Alt?ndöken, were badly wounded in the attack at the Adana E-type closed prison. 

Three men have been sentenced to aggravated life in prison over the brutal murder of 20-year-old Özgecan Aslan in southern Turkey, in a ruling that delighted her family, friends, attorneys, and women's rights activists.