Pippa Bacca

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Giuseppina Pasqualino di Marineo (9 December 1974 – 31 March 2008), known as Pippa Bacca, was an Italian feminist performance artist who, together with a fellow artist, was hitchhiking through the Middle East to promote world peace under the motto "marriage between different peoples and nations", symbolically wearing a wedding dress during her trek.

On 31 March 2008, Pippa Bacca disappeared in Turkey. Bacca's naked, strangled and decomposing body was found on 11 April 2008. The man who led the police to her body was detained and arrested, after reportedly confessing to raping and strangling Bacca on 31 March after taking her in his Jeep from a gas station. DNA testing suggested that Bacca was raped by multiple people.

A commentary in Today's Zaman, while expressing sadness for the woman's death, criticised the supposed obsequiousness of Turkish politicians to "foreigners" in the Bacca case, writing: "Let's face it, if Pippa were a Turk, some people would feel free to say that a hitchhiking woman deserves to be raped."

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