Italian artist’s fatal project
Turkish peace activists stand next to the coffin of Italian performance artist Giuseppina Pasqualino di Marineo, known as Pippa Bacca, during a ceremony in Istanbul, Turkey. She was raped and killed while hitchhiking in Turkey dressed in a wedding gown to appeal for peace in the Middle East. A Turkish man has been arrested in the case and, police say, confessed. (Murad Sezer / Associated Press)
A Turkish women’s rights advocate has a poster that reads “Long live peace!” during a silent protest in Istanbul against the deadly attack on Pippa Bacca, whose picture appears on the poster. (Murad Sezer / Associated Press)
Turkish women’s rights advocates at the silent protest in Istanbul hold posters with pictures of the slain Pippa Bacca and that say, “We are sorry!” (Murad Sezer / Associated Press)
