Is life getting worse for women in Erdogan's Turkey?

The murder of 20-year-old Ozgecan Aslan, who was stabbed while reportedly resisting a rape attempt, has unleashed a storm of outrage in Turkey, according to BBC news.

There have been mass street protests, and hundreds of thousands of women have tweeted #sendeandat - "tell your story" in Turkish - to share their experiences of abuse. Human rights groups say there has been a dramatic rise in violence against women during the rule of the current president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Leader of the AKP, he was elected as prime minister in 2002 and last year became the country's first elected president. He has called violence against women "a bleeding wound of Turkey", and vowed to launch a new campaign against it. But he has also said that women are not equal to men.

"You cannot put women and men on an equal footing," he told during a meeting in Istanbul in November, 2014. "It is against nature."
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said women cannot be treated as equal to men, and has accused feminists of rejecting motherhood. He also said feminists did not grasp the importance of motherhood in Islam.