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The American Bloomberg website revealed that violence against women is escalating rapidly in Turkey, especially after Ankara withdrew from the European Council Convention for the Protection of Women and Against Assault on Women, noting that this fact puts the Turkish regime in an embarrassing position in front of its European neighbors.
The website stated in a report that the Turkish regime's decision last March to withdraw from the agreement despite all the criticism and protests against this step clearly shed light on the rampant phenomenon of violence against women in Turkey and put the regime of Recep Tayyip Erdogan in an embarrassing and uncomfortable position in front of its European neighbors, which tried to Over the course of many years to please them and whiten his page in front of them in order to build close relationships.
The website pointed to Turkey's serious record regarding violence against women, as it ranks 133 out of 156 countries in the Global Gender Gap Report for 2021, and in 2020 it recorded more than 300 crimes against women.
According to UN Women data, 38 percent of women in Turkey face partner violence, while a report by the Association of Women Entrepreneurs in Turkey indicates that violence against women and femicide was alarmingly high even before Turkey abandoned the Council of Europe agreement. Or what is known as the Istanbul Agreement, but fears that the basic rights of Turkish women will be threatened increased more after the withdrawal from the agreement.
The website indicated that Erdogan's decision to withdraw from the Istanbul Agreement triggered widespread protests in several Turkish cities, but the Turkish regime forces confronted these demonstrations with tear gas and prevented them under the pretext of measures to combat the Corona virus.
The Turkish human rights platform (We Will Stop Femicide) issued a report a few days ago, in which it revealed that 31 women were killed in Turkey as a result of being subjected to male violence last August only, indicating that 21 other women died suspiciously, and the cause of death was not determined.
