Turkey leaves the Istanbul Convention, France "Solidarity of Turkish women"

Diplomacy - The Turkish President is under fire.Several votes were raised this Saturday, March 20 to denounce Turkey's decision to get out of the Istanbul convention against sexist violence.

"France deeply regrets the decision of the Turkish authorities to withdraw from the Istanbul Convention of the Council of Europe, while Turkey had been the first country to ratify it in 2011," said the ministry spokespersonFrench Foreign Affairs.

"This decision will first affect Turkish women, to which France expresses all its solidarity," added Agnes von der Mühll.

"This decision more generally marks a new regression in respect of human rights, whose women's rights are an integral part," she said.

Feminicides

In a decree published on the night of Friday to Saturday, Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced the withdrawal of his country from the Istanbul Convention, the first international treaty to set standards legally binding in around thirty countries to prevent sexist violence.

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Signed in 2011, the Istanbul Convention obliges governments to adopt legislation repressing domestic violence and similar abuses, including marital rape and female mutilation.

This decision, taken while feminicides have continued to increase for a decade in Turkey for a decade, has angered the organizations of defense of the rights of women and criticism of the European Union.

Faced with the avalanche of criticism, the government tried to reassure."Our institutions and our police will continue to fight against domestic violence and violence against women," said Interior Minister Süleyman Soyu.

Events on Saturday

Several thousand people demonstrated this Saturday, March 20 in Turkey to ask the president to return to his decision to abandon this treaty.

"Cancel your decision, apply the Treaty!" Charted thousands of women and men gathered in the Kadiköy district in Istanbul.The demonstrators brandished portraits of murdered women and signs on which we could read in particular: "These are the women who will win this war".

"I'm fed up with this patriarchal state.I'm tired of not feeling safe.That's enough! ", One of the demonstrators told AFP Banu.Other more modest rallies also took place in Ankara and Izmir, according to local media.

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