In 2015, a student's tragic death sparked a historic movement against gender violence
The brutal murder of 20-year-old student Özgecan Aslan in 2015 ignited a massive wave of protests across Turkey, turning a private tragedy into a national movement against gender-based violence.
In February 2015, the discovery of Özgecan Aslan's body in a riverbed shocked Turkey to its core. The university student had been murdered while resisting an attempted sexual assault on a minibus. Her death became a breaking point for a society tired of systemic violence against women.
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