24-year-old Gülcan Yeşilmen was seriously injured by a gunshot in the Central Ulucami borough of Midyad, in the province of Mardin. The young woman was taken to Midyat State Hospital after people called an ambulance but could not be saved despite all interventions.

It was claimed that Gülcan Yeşilmen was murdered by an accidentally fired gun.  However, the prosecutor's office launched an investigation into the incident.

The Kadın Cinayetleri (Femicides) initiative records and publishes the number of femicides. According to this, 2,534 women were murdered by men in Turkey and Northern Kurdistan between 2010 and 2020. However, femicides are often disguised as suicides and go unpunished. If this figure is added, there were 4,197 cases between 2010 and 2020. According to the platform's database information, 280 women were murdered by men in 2021; 217 women were found dead under suspicious circumstances. In 2022, 334 women were murdered by men; 245 women were found dead under suspicious circumstances. Although the annual report for 2023 is not yet available, 253 women were murdered by men and 194 women were found dead under suspicious circumstances in the first ten months of the year.