She was tortured and killed by her lover, and the demonstrations are spreading in Turkey

The killing of Pınar Gültekin, 27, sparked widespread anger among Turks, especially among civil society organizations calling for the implementation of the Istanbul Convention on Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence. Gultekin's name topped the trending list on Twitter with more than 160 tweets.

The police dispersed an angry demonstration

Turkish police dispersed a women's demonstration in the western city of Izmir on Tuesday, and arrested 15 women who participated in the demonstration after some of them were beaten, according to pictures published by some of the participants in the demonstration.

The demonstration called by the "Women Together" organization, in protest of the killing of Pinar Gultekin, wanted to reach a cultural center in the city center, before the police intervened forcefully to prevent the demonstrators from continuing their march to the center.

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Some participants said that the women detainees were taken first to the hospital and then to the police station, adding that some detainees had bruises on different parts of the body.

In Istanbul, women demonstrated to demand the implementation of the Istanbul Convention to reduce crimes against women in Turkey, and a demonstration took place from the Kadıköy neighborhood on the Asian side of the city in conjunction with a second demonstration in the Besiktas neighborhood on the European side of Istanbul.

How did you kill Pinar Gultekin?

Police in the western state of Mugla have received a report about the missing Gultekin since last Tuesday, and the police found information that Pinar met her ex-boyfriend on the day she disappeared inside a shopping mall, and left with him in a car to an unknown location.

When her ex-boyfriend was interrogated, he confessed to taking the victim to his house in order to talk to her and persuade her to return to him, which led to a quarrel between them, during which he beat her until she passed out, then strangled her until her death.

The killer carried the victim's body to a forest, placed it inside an iron barrel, and then covered it with cement, trying to delay the police's finding of it as much as possible.

The crime caused a sensation on social media platforms, and hundreds of thousands of Turks, including many officials and politicians, interacted with it.

"How many women do we have to lose in order to implement the Istanbul Agreement," the opposition Good Party leader, Meral Aksener, wrote on Twitter.

What is the Istanbul Convention?

Last November, the European Parliament called on all member states to ratify the "Istanbul Convention", related to combating violence against women and domestic violence.

In 2017, the European Union signed the Istanbul Agreement, which entered into force in 2014.

The agreement is a powerful tool to combat violence against women, which benefits in particular the non-governmental organizations working in this field, but the Turkish opposition accuses Erdogan’s government of evading the implementation of the agreement, especially after previous statements by the leader of the Justice and Development Party, Numan Kurtulmus, in which he hinted at the possibility of His country's withdrawal from the agreement, which was met with denounced reactions from opposition politicians and civil society organizations concerned with women's rights.