Necmettin Alt

Attempts to inter Ahmet Suphi Alt?ndöken, the convicted felon in the brutal rape and killing of 20-year-old-student Özgecan Aslan in February 2015, have precipitated a crisis after village residents locked the doors of their cemetery and refused to bury Alt?ndöken's body. 

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. 

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) deputy Aytu? At?c? has submitted a law proposal to parliament demanding an increase in the penalties for convicts who commit crimes against women.

The law proposal, dubbed the "Özgecan Law" after murdered 19-year-old university student Özgecan Aslan, called on parliament to increase the penalties in sexual assault cases. 

A Turkish prosecutor in the southern province of Mersin demanded life imprisonment for three suspects on Sept. 9 over the brutal killing of 21-year-old-student Özgecan Arslan, whose death in February caused massive outrage around the country.

Defendants indirectly accused each other in the first court hearing on June 12 in the Tarsus district of the Mediterranean province of Mersin in the case into the brutal murder of Özgecan Aslan, the 20-year-old whose body was found in a river bed two days after she was killed by a minibus driver on Feb. 11.

As many as 1,000 attorneys are expected to represent Özgecan Aslan in the very first court hearing on June 12 in the case over her brutal murder. The 20-year-old's burned body was found in a river bed in the Mediterranean province of Mersin two days after she was killed by a minibus driver on Feb. 11.

The main suspect in the brutal slaying of 20-year-old woman Özgecan Aslan in southern Turkey was arrested early Feb. 16 with his two accomplices, as Turks showed their mourning and anger by wearing black.