ISTANBUL (AFP) – Hundreds of women protested in Turkish cities against the murder of women in the latest rallies following a double slaying in Istanbul.
Hundreds in Istanbul chanted slogans denouncing President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his AKP party, an AFP correspondent reported.
“You are a government that lets young girls get killed,” a rally organiser, Gunes Fadime Aksahin, told the crowd.
Mother of a young woman who was murdered, Gulizar Sezer, said: “I want an end to the massacre of our girls.”
Her daughter’s body was found in June after being thrown into the sea wrapped in a carpet.
Other protests took place in Ankara and Izmir, according to a women’s rights federation.
There have been similar protests every day for a week across the country, notably on university campuses. The protests have erupted since the killing of two young women within 30 minutes of each other in Istanbul last week. A man suspected of carrying out the murders took his own life.
The suspect and the two women were all aged 19, said officials.
Erdogan, having initially blamed alcohol and social media, on Wednesday promised to toughen the justice system and crack down on crime.
