News Center- The Turkish Constitutional Court has found the state fault in a femicide case for the first time. The court has ruled that public officials should stand trial over their negligence to take protective measures to prevent the murder of Serpil Erfındık, who was killed by her ex-husband.

The court will announce the detailed ruling in the next months. 

What had happened?

Serpil Erfındık, an academic at the Department of German Language and Literature of the Dokuz Eylul University in Izmir, was killed by her ex-husband Vedat Atik in 2013. Before her death, she had filed a lawsuit against Vedat Atik for threatening and insulting her. A family court had ordered Vedat Atik not to approach Erfındık at a distance less than 100 meters or contact her for one month and rejected her demand for protective measures. Serpil Erfındık was killed on the day that the restraining order expired.