Murder of Özgecan Aslan

A Turkish prosecutor has dismissed a lawsuit from President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an?s lawyers after they filed a complaint against Hatice Cömert, the mother of fallen Gezi protester Abdullah Cömert for recent comments.

Two women have been shot dead on a highway in the southern province of Adana, as Turkey continues to debate the apparently increasing number of brutal murders committed by men.

A truck driver noticed the bodies of the two women in a ditch on the Tarsus-Adana-Gaziantep highway on March 16, Do?an News Agency reported.

Last week was the anniversary of the gang rape incident and horrible murder of the Indian medical student at a New Delhi bus. She was raped and mutilated with an iron rod, her internal organs fatally injured. She died 13 days later. It was only a few weeks ago when Özgecan Aslan, a 20-year-old student, was attacked by a minibus driver, beaten by tire iron.

A report published by the Ankara Journalists Association has examined the intensifying environment of intolerance in Turkish society.

The association's February 2015 report for the Press for Freedom Project touched on various topics, ranging from violence against women to freedom of expression.

An investigation has been launched into a high school teacher?s remarks to a class in the northern province of Tokat, in which she said female students ?deserve rape? for not wearing an Islamic scarf.

Parents are demanding that a teacher of religion classes in northern Turkey be fired after he told some of his female students that they "deserve rape" for not wearing an Islamic headscarf.

The father of brutally slain university student Özgecan Aslan will be among the recipients of the Turkish Religious Affairs Foundation?s International Goodness Award, Religious Affairs Head Mehmet Görmez has said.

Turkey?s first ever women?s daily newspaper continues to be published in the southern province of Mersin, where 20-year-old university student Özgecan Aslan was brutally murdered last month.

?Mersin Kad?n Gazetesi,? (Mersin Women?s Daily) which only employees women staff, has been appearing for five years and aims to end violence against women and amplify their voices.

International Women?s Day was celebrated in various cities around Turkey, with protests over violence against women being the common theme of events across the country.

Men learn of loopholes in Turkey's domestic violence laws and plan their attacks with the intention of landing reduced sentences, journalist Christina Asquith writes for the Hürriyet Daily News. After shooting his wife six times in the arms and legs, the husband of Arzu Bozta? turned himself into police. He claimed he lost his temper in the moment and his wife provoked his rage.