Murder of Özgecan Aslan

A court in the southern Turkish province of Antalya has ruled for heavier sentences for a couple in an incest rape and murder case that had stirred public outcry. 

Hundreds of protesters have gathered in Turkey for women's rights to mark a day on violence against women and girls.

During primetime on the eve of March 8 International Women's Day, many TV channels aired a lengthy advert for a company, showing working rural women and men talking about hot potato gender topics in Turkey. It showed a number of men expressing support for their wives working and their daughters going to school, dressing up as they like, and laughing loudly in public.

Police detained 12 suspects, arresting one of them, on Nov. 10 after a 14-year-old girl in the southeastern province of Şanlıurfa said she had been raped multiple times by 12 people, Doğan News Agency has reported.

"We already knew how to get beaten by him. Probably Özgecan didn't. She must have resisted or tried to fight back, which would have made my brother go completely nuts and made him hit harder." These are the words of the sister of Özgecan Arslan's murderer, speaking to daily Habertürk reporter Kübra Par. 

Par asked her what she thought when she heard of Özgecan's killing. 

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. 

Some 413 murders of women were reported by the Turkish media in 2015, the Umut (Hope) Foundation has stated in a new report, underlining that the trend has been increasing since the beginning of 2016.

The foundation called on Feb. 16 for NGOs to conduct comprehensive studies on the issue, which it described as a "mass murder of women." 

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. 

Enough, this is enough. At this point, words fail. But this barbarity, this perversion, does not seem to fail. There is a new femicide every day; there is a new rape every day.

It was only last weekend when a 19-year-old girl was raped near Ba?dat Street, a prestigious street on the Anatolian side of Istanbul and the street by which she lived.