Turkey withdraws from the Istanbul Convention against male violence. For women, a huge blow Turkey is abandoning the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence, known as the Istanbul Convention and first ratified (2011) in that country. This was a huge blow for Turkish citizens: almost every day in 2020 a woman died at the hands of a man, not counting the 170 suspicious deaths. The same pace in the first 65 days of 2021, around 70 feminicides. According to [...]
