Women's Rights & Issues

muriel_volestrangler

(102,414 posts) Sat Mar 20, 2021, 05:47 AM Mar 2021

Turkey leaves Istanbul Convention on Domestic Violence since it holds women equal

Turkey has abandoned an international accord designed to protect women, despite objections from campaigners.

It signed the Council of Europe's convention ten years ago at its launch in the Turkish city of Istanbul.

The pact seeks to prevent, prosecute and eliminate domestic violence.

But Turkish conservatives argue its principles of gender equality and non-discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation undermine family values and promote homosexuality.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-56467689

So the conservatives think equality is a problem - even more so than violence.

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Turkey leaves Istanbul Convention on Domestic Violence since it holds women equal (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler Mar 2021 OP

Aye. "Conservatives think equality is a problem - even more so than violence." Mister Ed Mar 2021 #1

Thank you so much for posting this, as I had not seen it. The woman-haters are everywhere. niyad Mar 2021 #2

Mister Ed

(6,350 posts)

1. Aye. "Conservatives think equality is a problem - even more so than violence."

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Sat Mar 20, 2021, 06:08 AM

Mar 2021

And the violence is a means of preserving the inequality.

niyad

(119,639 posts)

2. Thank you so much for posting this, as I had not seen it. The woman-haters are everywhere.