Dear @Mashable There is nothing surprising about Erdoğan’s stand on Özgecan murder…

This is in reaction to Mashable headline linked below. The Mashable author is surprised that Erdoğan was critical of violence against women but when you deconstruct his arguments, one can see that he is one of the most vocal critic of modern women rights. Erdoğan was critical of rape and murder of Özgecan Aslan but during the same period he was more intense in criticizing feminists who protested the incident, and opposition parties. He several times declared that he does not believe in equality between the man and the woman. He has repeatedly attacked women journalists, artists and intellectuals. He idolized the woman as a mother or wife but he cannot accept a woman who prefers to exist in society  without becoming a mother or a wife….
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ISTANBUL, Turkey—The murder of a 20-year-old university student in Turkey has thrust the taboo topic of violence against women into the national spotlight, with unlikely voices weighing in.

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The brutal killing of Özgecan Aslan has nothing to do with socio-economic conditions or unemployment, unlike the CHP leader has suggested, President Erdoğan has said
An usual, an individual protest in an Istanbul square triggers social media calls for a massive demo
A 19-year-old man, identified only by the initials İ.K., has been convicted of sexually assaulting a 21-year-old Japanese tourist on the Diyarbakır-Muş highway in southeastern Turkey, but has had his sentence postponed for “good conduct.”
Freemuse monitored and documented violations of freedom of expression for musicians on www.freemuse.org in 2014.
According to Media Monitoring Center, an appeal to wear black for Özgecan Aslan was responded by 170 TV presenters from 32 networks.
Turkey Mourns a Female Student’s Brutal Death

Picture of Ozgecan Aslan, a 20 years old women who got kidnapped and murdered in Mersin, Turkey.Picture of Ozgecan Aslan, a 20-year-old woman who was kidnapped and murdered in Mersin, Turkey. Widely shared. 

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Women in Turkey have begun a social media campaign to share their accounts of sexual harassment and violence in the wake of the brutal murder of a 20-year-old student who was killed after resisting an attempted rape, according to the Turkish news site Hurriyet Daily News

The death of the young woman, Özgecan Aslan, has created an outcry among women in Turkey — and some men — over violence against womenDozens of rallies were held across Turkey over the weekend to protest the murder of Aslan and to call attention to the increasing violence against women in Turkey

Following a viral tweet that showed a vehicle with the license plate “GAY” , the owner Ataşehir Municipality in Istanbul replied with the following: “Suppose that we are gay”
Rape and murder of young woman sparks mass Twitter protest in Turkey

Brutal death of 20-year-old Ozgecan Aslan leads to outpouring of rage from Turkish women in campaign hashtagged #sendeanlat (tell your story)

The murder of a woman who tried to stop a man raping her has sparked mass protests in Turkey and prompted women to share their stories of sexual harassment, violence and fear in a growing Twitter campaign.

A controversial homeland security bill comes to the Turkish parliament’s agenda after several delays, with no signs of resolution of the inter-party conflicts over the content of the legislation
The Environment Ministry has approved the controversial plan for a new port project in Istanbul’s Zeytinburnu district which had previously been cancelled by the Council of State
The European Court of Human Rights rejected Turkey’s motion on the ruling that urged Turkey to remove mandatory religion classes in the education system
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has rejected Turkey’s appeal to a ruling that said high school students must be allowed to opt out of religious education classes, which are currently compulsory
Eser Çelik (18) submitted a complaint to the prosecutor’s office, saying that he had been tortured by bastinado an a police station in Istanbul.
Turkish President Erdoğan has said he was on good terms with U.S. President Obama in the past, but things have begun to change
The most comprehensive exhibition on coffee in Turkey, ‘A Drop of Pleasure: 500 years of Turkish Coffee’ opens at the Topkapı Palace
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A significant incident at parliament on Feb. 17 has gone largely unnoticed, as all eyes were on a fracas that left five opposition deputies injured on the first day of debates in the General Assembly regarding a government-led controversial homeland security bill

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