Body of missing student found as Turkiye grapples with femicides

ANKARA: The body of a 21-year-old woman student who went missing nearly three weeks ago has been found in eastern Turkiye, the government said on Tuesday, as the country grapples with a wave of femicides.

Hundreds of women have taken to the streets in major cities across Turkiye over the past 10 days to denounce the string of murders.

The protests began following a grisly October 4 attack in Istanbul in which two 19-year-olds were killed within half an hour of each other by a young man of the same age who then killed himself. One of the women was decapitated.