15,000 Protest Violence Against Women After Body Of 20-Year-Old Found In Turkey

A portrait of late Ozgecan Aslan, 20-year-old psychology student at Mersin's Cag University is seen during a demonstration in Istanbul on February 14, 2015, against the murder of the young woman. Women and rights act... A portrait of late Ozgecan Aslan, 20-year-old psychology student at Mersin's Cag University is seen during a demonstration in Istanbul on February 14, 2015, against the murder of the young woman. Women and rights activists across the country took to the streets over the weekend to protest the brutal slaying of a young woman allegedly at the end of a rape attempt. Istanbul, TURKEY - 14/02/2015./ZAMAN_1402.011/Credit:Mehmet Yaman/ZAMAN/SIPA/1502161805 (Sipa via AP Images) MORE LESS
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ISTANBUL (AP) — About 15,000 people marched in a southern Turkish city Wednesday in remembrance of a student whose murder last week after an attempted rape has galvanized public outrage about violence against women.

Twenty-year-old Ozgecan Aslan’s body was found Friday burned in a riverbed. She was last seen two days earlier on a minibus in Mersin, where the demonstrators gathered Wednesday. Turkish media has reported that the minibus driver, Suphi Altindoken, later confessed that he killed her and mutilated her body after she tried to fend off his sexual attack. He was arrested along with his father and one other man.

The case has led to mass demonstrations, an outpouring of anger on social media and allegations that the ruling Justice and Development Party has not done enough to protect women.

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