"I wanted to kill someone. I followed it for four kilometers. If I had found a gun, I would have killed many more people." With these shock statements he confessed in Turkey the killer of a 20-year-old girl who was murdered two days ago outside her home in the province of Ordu, on the Black Sea. The young Ceren Ozdemir, a student at the academy of music and fine arts and a dancer classic, she was stabbed while returning home.
The killer, Ozgur Arduc, found still in possession of the murder weapon, had been released from prison on Saturday with a permit and had fled, according to investigators. When he was intercepted by the police he resisted, seriously injuring two agents. The case has strongly shaken Turkey, both because of blind violence and because it is the umpteenth woman killed. According to the platform 'We will stop feminicides', those killed since the beginning of 2019 are at least 390, an increase compared to previous years.
Just yesterday, a much-followed trial for the killing of another young woman, Sule Cet, who was precipitated in May 2018 from the 20th floor of an Ankara building after being raped, was sentenced to life imprisonment. Initially the killer had claimed that the girl had committed suicide. Authorities in Turkey are often accused by activists of not working hard enough to counter the risks of feminicides. The demonstration on the Day for the elimination of violence against women, on November 25th, was dispersed by the Turkish police in the center of Istanbul with tear gas.