Murder of Pınar Gültekin

The elements of deliberately killing with monstrous feelings or causing torment did not exist in the murder of 27-year-old Pınar Gültekin, a local court has stated while announcing the reason behind the reduction of the jail term of the murderer Cemal Metin Avcı in the country's high-profile femicide case.

Gültekin went missing in the southwestern province of Muğla on July 16, 2020.

The father of Pınar Gültekin, who was brutally murdered by her boyfriend Cemal Metin Avcı two years ago, has voiced his anger towards the court's decision of decreasing the murderer's sentence based on an "unjust provocation discount."

Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ has joined the public anger by criticizing the "unjust provocation discount" a court has given in the case of Cemal Metin Avcı, the murderer of university student Pınar Gültekin.

Speaking at a conference on the law on June 23, Bozdağ highlighted that the issue of "unjust provocation discount" should be discussed.

İYİ (Good) Party leader Meral Akşener has criticized the "unjust provocation discount" given in the case of Cemal Metin Avcı, the murderer of university student Pınar Gültekin.

"They encourage women killers, shame on all of them," Akşener said addressing her party lawmakers on June 22.

The murderer of university student Pınar Gültekin, Cemal Metin Avcı has been served with a reduced prison sentence of 23 years on the grounds of "unjust provocation" on June 20.

The 13th hearing of the case was held at the Muğla 3rd High Criminal Court.

Avcı stated that he was remorseful and said that he committed the murder alone.

A forensic report submitted to a local court in the high profile femicide case reveals that Pınar Gültekin, a 27-year-old student who was murdered in the Aegean province of Muğla last year, was burned alive.

The wife of the murderer of Pınar Gültekin, a 27-year-old university student who was killed in the Aegean province of Muğla last year, has been included in the high profile femicide case.

Surprising developments in the case of Pınar Gültekin, a university student who was strangled to death and later dumped in a forest after her body was burned in the Aegean province of Muğla last year, have unfolded.

Turkey withdrew from a European treaty on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence, according to the country's Official Gazette early on March 20. 

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan signed a decree to withdraw from the Istanbul Convention that was signed in 2011.