Turkey may bring back death penalty

Turkey’s parliament may consider the restoration of the death penalty, the head of the parliament’s justice commission, Ahmet Iyimaya, said. 

Iyimaya said the death penalty can be applied in the case of violence against women, and particularly brutal murders.

Following the rape and murder of a 20-year-old student, Ozgecan Aslan, in Turkey’s Mersin province, a number of ministers requested that the death penalty be used against the perpetrator. Thousands of women took part in a protest after the report about Ozgecan Aslan’s murder was publicized.

Turkey’s EU affairs minister, Volkan Bozkir, said that if something like this had happened to his relatives, he would execute the criminals himself.