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This is another victory for the ruling Conservative Party of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
2011 The Istanbul Convention, signed by 45 states and the EU, obliges national governments to pass laws to prevent domestic violence and similar types of violence.
Conservative politicians in Turkey argue that the convention threatens the family unit, promotes divorce, and that the convention’s definition of equality is being abused by the LGBT community to gain wider recognition in society.
A presidential decree published in the Official Gazette on Saturday morning drew ire from human rights groups and calls for protests in Istanbul.
Gokce Gokcen, vice president of the main opposition party CHP, said that the rejection of the convention means that “women are considered second-class citizens, which allows them to be assassinated.”
“Despite you and your evil, we will live and recover the convention,” he wrote on his Twitter account.
Turkey has begun considering withdrawing from the deal after an official from RT Erdogan’s party raised the issue last year.
Since then, women have staged protests in various cities across the country, urging the government to stay true to the convention.
Turkey’s withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention is “very sad news” and a “big step backwards” in the fight against violence against women, Marija Pejčinovič Burič, Secretary General of the Council of Europe (CoE) said on Saturday.
The EC Secretary General assured that the convention is a “gold standard” for the international community to provide more protection to women. 2011 The convention signed in Istanbul is an agreement initiated by the ET.
“This step is a major failure of these efforts, and it is sad because it endangers the protection of women in Turkey, throughout Europe and beyond,” Pejčinovič Burič said in a statement.
“The Istanbul Convention is widely recognized as the gold standard for protecting women and girls from the violence they are forced to face on a daily basis in our society,” said the EC Secretary General.
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