Addressing the public after the cabinet meeting, Erdoğan targeted the İstanbul Convention, from which Turkey has withdrawn by a Presidential decision. Several women and women’s organizations have ...

Turkey formally withdrew İstanbul Convention today (July) in accordance with a decree issued in late March by President and Justice and Development Party (AKP) Chair Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Women took ...

Hundreds of women demonstrate in Turkish capital Ankara late Thursday, July 1, 2021, holding banners that said they won't give up on the Council of Europe's Istanbul Convention. Turkey formally ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has withdrawn his country from an international treaty to protect women through a presidential decree issued in the early hours of Saturday. The move has sent ...

Turkey withdrew from the Istanbul Convention — a treaty signed by member states of the Council of Europe to prevent violence and domestic abuse against women — over what the ruling government of the ...

A prosecutor from the council that oversees the legality of administrative court decisions says President Erdogan had no lawful right to withdraw Turkey in 2021 from an international treaty – and the ...

Thousands of women marched across the largest cities in Turkey on July 1, to protest Turkey's official withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention. Heavy police intervention and violence were reported ...

Turkey has withdrawn from the Council of Europe’s Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence, popularly known as the Istanbul Convention. Women and supporters ...

A woman in Istanbul sent a panicked message to her lawyer: Her ex-husband was on his way to pick up their 9-year-old daughter. He threatened to kill her if she tried to stop him. This was three days ...

Amnesty International on Thursday condemned the Latvian government’s decision to leave the Council of Europe convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence, also ...

The European Parliament voted in favor of EU accession to the Istanbul Convention, which aims to prevent and combat violence against women. The convention was originally signed six years ago, but the ...