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About 15,000 people marched in a southern Turkish city Wednesday in remembrance of a student whose murder after an attempted rape last week has galvanized public outrage about violence against women, The Associated Press reported.

Ozgecan Aslan’s body was found Friday burned in a riverbed. She was last seen two days earlier on a minibus in Mersin, where the demonstrators gathered Wednesday. Local media has reported that the minibus driver, Suphi Altindoken, later confessed that he killed her and mutilated her body. He was arrested along with his father and another man.

The case has led to mass demonstrations, an outpouring of anger on social media and allegations that the ruling Justice and Development Party has not done enough to protect women.

The protesters marched near Cag University in Mersin, where Aslan was a psychology student. According to Turkey’s private DHA news agency, they carried banners that said “Rape is a crime against humanity. Others read “Say ‘stop’ to murders of women” and “We are not mourning but revolting.”