Men in Turkey wear mini skirts to protest murder of 20-year-old student
Men in Turkey have taken to mini-skirts to protest alleged attempted rape, death of a 20-year-old Turkish woman. These protests by the men of Turkey in mini skirts, for violence against women, have gone viral and are doing the rounds of social media.
The young student was beaten to death after trying to fight off a man attempting to rape her.
Ozgecan Aslan was abducted on 11 February. She had used pepper spray to fend off the attacker, before being beaten and stabbed. Her body was discovered days later in a riverbed.
The particularly brutal assault has sparked widespread outrage. The hashtag #ozgecanicinminietekgiy has become a top trend on social media, with men in Turkey and Azerbaijan wearing a miniskirt to denounce the attack.
Men have been posting photos of themselves wearing mini-skirts on social media to protest violence against women, following the death of a woman in Turkey who was apparently killed for trying to prevent a bus driver from raping her.
The burned body of 20-year-old Ozgecan Aslan was found in a riverbed in southern Turkey on Feb 13, two days after she went missing.
She was reported to have boarded a minibus to go home. The private Dogan news agency reported that the driver had attempted to rape her.
She resisted by spraying pepper gas at the driver who stabbed her to death, according to Dogan. The driver later sought help from two other people - his father and friend - to hide the body.
Three suspects including the driver of the minibus have been detained and are said to have admitted to having stabbing Aslan.
Since her death, women have staged protests in Turkey and men have now joined in by posting photos of themselves dressed in mini-skirts on social media.
Men began using the hashtag #ozgecanicinminietekgiy – which roughly translates to “wear a miniskirt for Ozgecan” – and sharing selfies of themselves wearing mini-skirts holding signs of support.
Azerbaycan'da Erkek,Özgecan Öldürülmesini Protesto Etmek ?çin Facebook'ta #ozgecanicinminietekgiy Kampanyas? Ba?latt? pic.twitter.com/jF1rBQJyOk
— BerilDeniz (@BerilDeniz77) February 18, 2015
According to BBC Trending, more than six million people have tweeted her name and thousands have used social media to share their own stories of sexual abuse.
Their rallying cry on Facebook states: "If a miniskirt is responsible for everything, if [wearing] a miniskirt means immorality and unchastity, if a woman who wears a miniskirt is sending an invitation about what will happen to her, then we are also sending an invitation!"
