Pulling Out of the Istanbul Convention: Women's Rights and Homosexuality in the New Turkey
21st Century Wire Ten years ago, on 11 May 2011, the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence was opened for signature in Istanbul and subsequently this human rights treaty has become popularly known as the Istanbul Convention. A year later, 12 March 2012, Turkey became the first country to ratify the convention, and was then followed by 33 other countries in the period 2013-2019 – from Albania and Belgium to Sweden and Switzerland. Last month, the leader of Turkey’s opposition Republican People’s Party (or CHP) Kemal Kılıç...