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Hundreds of women protested in Turkish cities against the murder of women in the latest rallies following a double slaying in Istanbul. Hundreds in Istanbul chanted slogans denouncing President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his AKP party, an AFP correspondent reported. “You are a government that lets young girls get killed,” a rally organiser, Gunes Fadime Aksahin, told the crowd. Gulizar Sezer, the mother of a young woman who was murdered, said: “I want an end to the massacre of our girls.” Her daughter’s body was found in June after being thrown into the sea wrapped in a carpet. Other protests to…

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