Sad coincidence or thoughtful provocation?
A few days before the European summit on March 25 and 26, where the thorny issue of relations with Turkey will be discussed, President Erdogan shattered the little that remained of democratic progress obtained during the accession process.
Last Wednesday, the noose first tightened on the secular pro-Kurdish opposition party HDP.
After months of pressure on this third political formation in the country, a prosecutor demanded that it be banned for "
terrorist
activities."
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On Saturday, it was the turn of the women to wake up with a start with the announcement, by presidential decree, of Turkey's withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention, an international treaty aimed at combating domestic violence.
Sad irony of fate in a country which has already recorded 77 cases of feminicides in 78 days in 2021 alone ...
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Announce in the middle of the night the withdrawal of the Istanbul Convention, while we learn every day that new violence
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