Turkish authorities crack down participants against Turkey's withdrawal from Istanbul Agreement

Turkish authorities have cracked down on groups of women who participated in protest demonstrations, rejecting Turkey's withdrawal from the Council of Europe Convention for the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence signed in 2011 in Istanbul, known as the "Istanbul Agreement".

29 March, 2021 07:12

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The police used violence against thousands of demonstrators who went out in the Kadikoy area in the Asian side of Istanbul, carrying banners and chanting slogans denouncing the murders of women and demanding that they be protected from the perpetrators of violence, and they also demanded that the government reverse the decision to withdraw from the Istanbul agreement under a decree signed by President Recep Tayyip. Erdogan.

The police imposed a tight security cordon around the participants in the demonstration that went out on Saturday evening, and a number of men joined it to express their solidarity with women against withdrawing from the agreement.

The director of Amnesty International's Turkey branch, Aeghe Onfer, described the withdrawal from the Istanbul agreement as a disaster for millions of women and children in Turkey, calling for the withdrawal to be revoked.

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