"The annulment of the İstanbul Convention naturally encourages men a lot. "We saw this at the time when we had not yet officially withdrawn from the Convention; we saw it in the messages sent to women ...

Former GREVIO President Prof. Acar has commented on the recent debates about Turkey's possible withdrawal from İstanbul Convention: "I think that this intention to give up on the convention is related ...

At 3 a.m. on Saturday morning, Turkey announced through its official gazette that it was formally withdrawing from the Istanbul Convention, an international treaty to combat violence against women and ...

President Erdogan’s plans to withdraw Turkey from the domestic violence treaty are alarming his own female political comrades and even members of his own family. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s plans ...

In a single-paragraph statement issued at around 2am on March 20, Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan pulled his country out of the Council of Europe’s Convention on Preventing and Combating ...