The murder of Özgecan Aslan, a university student in the southern Turkish province of Mersin, has sparked fury in the country where murders of women were brought back to the spotlight with wider media coverage and higher awareness to the issue that plagues thousands. Since the young woman's burned body was found after the confession of her killer on Friday, activists have staged protests almost daily condemning the brutal act and urged the government to take more severe measures, including the reinstatement of the death penalty or castration for perpetrators of sex crimes and murder convicts. The unprecedented outrage over the murder continued yesterday as well. In the southern city of Antalya, a group of university students carrying sticks soaked with fake blood marched against violence and rape. In Istanbul, the headquarters of a paint company that released a public service announcement on Monday on TV condemning the murder, was entirely covered in black in a display of grief over the murder. Activists in protests in other cities slammed the violence in protests that brought together people from different political views and ideologies. Experts assess that the unprecedented outrage over the murder is a culmination of anger against the high level of domestic violence in Turkey. According to figures from the Turkish National Police, throughout 2014, 118,014 women were victims of domestic violence and 133 women lost their lives in domestic violence cases. Moreover, 23 women lost their lives while they were under temporary precaution measures by security forces and 21 others were killed while they were under the protection of on-duty officers. Women's NGOs claim 294 women were killed by men in 2014 in the country. A report from the Ministry of Family and Social Policies shows that four in every 10 women in Turkey are subjected to physical and sexual violence by their husbands, fiances or boyfriends at least once in their life. The report says over 17,000 women applied for police protection against abusive spouses in 2014.Apart from the streets, protests found widespread support on social media. Under the hashtag #ozgecanicinsiyahgiy (wear black for Özgecan), people, including celebrities, posted pictures of themselves wearing black. Meanwhile, Nihat Doğan, a singer who evolved into a Twitter phenomenon for his absurd messages, drew public ire for his "insensitive" tweet about the murder. Doğan said in his message that women wearing mini-skirts had no right to complain for harassment they suffered at the hands of "deviants bred by a secular system." After a barrage of messages protesting him, Doğan deleted his tweet but it failed to undo the damage it did. Hours after his remarks, the singer was fired from the Turkish version of Survivor he was scheduled to appear in. Galatasaray football club, where he was a delegate, announced it would annul his membership while his agent parted ways with Doğan. On a more serious note, the singer, who apologized for the comment in his own outlandish way by crying on live television, faces a series of lawsuits on charges of "inciting crime", "insulting the state" and "insult to a deceased person." Ali Tezel, a columnist for the Millet daily, was another prominent figure under fire for his messages over the murder of Özgecan Aslan. Tezel claimed the "rapist" was Sunni and the victim was of Alevi faith and the government officials did not attend the funeral of Aslan for this reason. The murdered girl's father reacted to Tezel's comments and said the prime minister and president already extended their condolences by phone and he does "not care what others" said. Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the leader of the opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) was also criticized for politicizing the incident after he said that violence was the result of the government's economic policies. In a speech after Aslan's murder, the opposition leader justified violence towards women and children by unemployed men and stated, "these people are angry because of unemployment and have to vent their anger in some way."