Sexuality and sexual harassment in China and Turkey

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On Wednesday 11th February a 20 year old Turkish woman, Ozgecan Aslan, was brutally murdered by a man who was attempting to rape her. Women – and men – showed their outrage by pouring onto the streets of Turkey’s cities, dressed in black and protesting about the rise in violence against women in their country. Many aimed their anger and frustration at the Turkish Government. The response on social media has been equally huge and just as angry, with over 6.5 million people tweeting about Ozgecan, and Turkish women sharing their stories online about their everyday experiences of sexual harassment. We speak to the BBC’s Selin Girit about the swelling anger and a volunteer member of the ruling AKP party defends the government’s records on women’s rights. It’s Chinese New Year week, and that means the world’s largest annual human migration with around 2.8 billion trips being made by Chinese students, migrant workers and office employees who trek thousands of miles to spend the holiday with their families. But not everyone is welcome home. This year a video called Coming Home has been trending in China and across the world. It asks parents to welcome their gay children home for the holidays and encourages families to accept homosexuality. It was created by gay rights activists PFLAG in China has had millions of views. BBC trending speaks to the man behind the video about being gay in China, and finds out why his videos about homosexuality have in the past been be taken offline.