Turkish women have been out on the streets protesting the murder of Pinal Gultekin, whose ex-partner strangled her & then put her body in a barrel, burned it & poured concrete on it https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/07/protests-turkey-brutal-murder-young-woman-200722102923071.html
Protests in Turkey over brutal murder of young woman

Women hit the streets and take to social media after ex-partner reportedly confesses to killing Pinar Gultekin, 27.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/07/protests-turkey-brutal-murder-young-woman-200722102923071.html
Femicides have doubled in Turkey since 2012. “At least 474 women were murdered in 2019, most of them by current or former partners, family members, or unrelated males who wanted a relationship with them,” according to Al-Jazeera
And today, countless women around the world on Instagram are posting photos of themselves in black & white to show they could be next. A lot of them don’t even know the context of how #WomenSupportingWomen #ChallengedAccepted started. This is it.
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