Women in Turkey

?Men are entrusted to women.?

?It?s not over until I say it is over.?

The first sentence belongs to Turkey?s President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an. He said it while talking about the brutal murder of Özgecan Aslan.

The second belongs to an ordinary male citizen in Turkey, uttered when his female partner asks to part ways.

Özgecan Aslan was murdered brutally because she was a woman.

We are, as a country, experiencing the pain of such an atrocity. At least, today, all of us, especially we, men, should be thinking again and again, questioning our view of women.  The first thing men should do is change the language of politics.

Around 15,000 people marched in the southern province of Mersin on Feb. 18 to protest the brutal murder of 20-year-old Özgecan Aslan.

The wife of the man who confessed to the murder that has shook Turkey over the past days has demanded the ?heaviest sentence? for him.

?God damn him. I want him to be given the heaviest sentence,? Neslihan Alt?ndöken told the Do?an News Agency on Feb. 17.

A 19-year-old man, identified only by the initials ?.K., has been convicted of sexually assaulting a 21-year-old Japanese tourist on the Diyarbak?r-Mu? highway in southeastern Turkey, but has had his sentence postponed for ?good conduct.?

A Turkish man has donned a skirt in a central Istanbul square, to demonstrate in memory of slain 20-year-old student Özgecan Aslan, triggering social media calls for a massive "skirt-wearing" march over the weekend.

The brutal killing of 20-year-old university student Özgecan Aslan has nothing to do with socio-economic conditions or unemployment, unlike the leader of Turkey?s main opposition party has suggested, President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has said, accusing the opposition of ?politicizing the incident.?

The brutal killing of 20-year-old university student Özgecan Aslan has nothing to do with socio-economic conditions or unemployment, unlike the leader of Turkey?s main opposition party has suggested, President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has said, accusing the opposition of ?politicizing the incident.?

The father of Özgecan Aslan, a 20-year-old student who was brutally killed in southern Turkey, has said a return of capital punishment is not the solution, amid debates over increasing the penalties for such crimes.

A pro-government pundit in Turkey has drawn the ire of social media users by advising sexually harassed women to ?shut up and see a doctor.?

Sevda Türküsev, a columnist for daily Yeni ?afak, participated in the social media campaign #sendeanlat (you tell your story too) on Feb. 16 with a controversial tweet.