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On July 16, 2020, university student Pinar Gultekin went missing in Turkey’s southwestern Aegean province of Mugla. Five days later, the 27-year-old woman’s dead body was found in a forest.
Forensic investigations revealed that Gultekin was strangled to death and then burned alive by her ex-boyfriend, Cemal Metin Avci who confessed to the murder.
Gultekin’s murder was the latest in a string of “femicides,” — the deaths of women at the hands of their spouses and partners — that have…
