ISTANBUL — Hundreds of women held rallies in Turkish cities against the murder of women following a double slaying incident in Istanbul.
Protest ers chanted slogans denouncing President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Islamic-rooted AKP party, an AFP correspondent reported.'You are a government that lets young girls get killed,' a rally organizer, Gunes Fadime Aksahin, told the crowd.Gulizar Sezer, the mother of a young woman who was murdered, said: 'I want an end to the massacre of our girls.' Her daughter's body was found in June after being thrown into the sea wrapped in a carpet.
The protests have erupted since the killing of two young women within 30 minutes of each other in Istanbul last week.A man suspected of carrying out the murders took his own life.The suspect and the two women were all ages 19, said officials.Erdogan, having initially blamed alcohol and social media, on Wednesday promised to toughen the justice system and crack down on crime.Turkey has struggled to contain killings of women.
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