Fury over the abduction and rape of an 18-year-old woman by a Turkish officer in the Kurdish-majority province of Batman in southeast Turkey reached fever pitch following news that the victim, identified as Ipek Er, had died today in the hospital where she was being treated after attempting to take her own life on July 16.
Er is but the latest victim of a ballooning number of femicides. At least 474 women were killed last year, mostly by men and many by their male relatives, marking the highest number in a decade.
