Police detained five women protesters on Sunday who unfurled a banner atop of a building in Istanbul's Taksim square to denounce brutal murder of a 20-year old student that triggered outrage across the country, Dogan news agency reported. Police found the burnt and stabbed body of a 20-year old psychology student Ozgecan Aslan on Friday in the southern province of Mersin two days after she was reported missing. Three suspects, including a minibus driver and his father, were detained and two of them admitted stabbing and burning her before dumping the body to a riverbed. The brutal murder triggered outcry across the country and women took to the streets to denouncing the gruesome attack.
(photo credit: The Jerusalem Post)