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Post by pieter on Aug 20, 2020 4:22:40 GMT -7
What the black-and-white selfies of women on soc media is really about. This challenge is originated in Turkey to protest the brutal murder of yet another woman. Her name was Pinar Gültekin. Allegedly beaten, strangled by her former boyfriend who attempted to burn her body, before disposing of it in a bin that he filled with concrete. Her death triggered widespread outrage in the country, with many taking to the streets to express their anger. To raise awareness of the rising rates of violence against women and femicide.
In 2019, 474 women were killed. It is also estimated that, so far in 2020 alone, 146 Turkish women have been murdered. #IstanbulAnlasmasiYasatir #eliminateviolenceagainstwomen #womensupportingwomen
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Post by pieter on Aug 20, 2020 4:34:17 GMT -7
Murder of Pınar GültekinPınar Gültekin (1993 – 16/21 July 2020) was a Turkish woman who disappeared on 16 July 2020. Her body was found in the rural neighborhood of Yerkesik in Menteşe on 21 July 2020 after she was murdered. In July 2020, a global Instagram hashtag campaign called ChallengeAccepted was relaunched by a group of Turkish women in wake of the murder of Gültekin.DisappearanceOn 16 July, Gültekin who was a student at Muğla University School of Economics, left her house in the Akyaka neighborhood in the town of Ula where she lived alone. She could not be reached by her family and friends afterwards. Her younger sister Sibel Gültekin and her mother Şefika Gültekin came to Muğla and reported her disappearance to Akyaka Gendarmerie General Command and asked for help through social media.MurderIn the testimony of 32-year-old Cemal Metin Avcı, who was identified as the case's main suspect, he stated that he is married and the father of two children. However, he wished to rekindle his relationship with Pınar Gültekin, whom he had dated before. After Gültekin's refusal to accept his offer, the two engaged in an argument during which Avcı beat her up and left her unconscious. He then had the victim strangled. However, Gültekin's family disputed his claim of the two having a relationship, saying he was a jilted stalker who had met her at a bar and begun obsessively messaging her. Her father claims that he murdered her after she blocked him on social media because he couldn't take it.According to the information obtained from Avcı's testimonies and through further reviews, it became evident that Avcı had taken 2 bottles of gasoline from the gas station on the same day that he killed Gültekin, and tried to remove the trace of murder by burning her body in a garbage barrel in the forested area in Yerkesik neighborhood and poured concrete on it. As to why he murdered Gültekin, Avcı responded: "I killed her in a moment of anger". However Gültekin family's lawyer Rezan Epözdemir said that they believed this was a premeditated murder in which there were others involved and they delievered their suspicions of to the prosecutor.Comment Pieter: "Maybe the murder of this woman and the culture and country she comes from is closer to me than to you folks, because The Turkish community is the largest migrant community in Arnhem and I saw and see a lot of pretty secular or moderate Muslim Turkish girls and women without headscarf like Pınar Gültekin in Arnhem and in other Dutch towns and cities."Cheers, Pieter
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