Istanbul-Sana
The Turkish regime police suppressed with tear gas today a women's demonstration in Istanbul denouncing violence against women and Turkey's withdrawal from an international treaty to protect their rights.
Agence France-Presse reported that the Turkish regime police fired tear gas to disperse a crowd of women who raised banners saying “We will fight until we get what we want” and “Do not be silent in the face of male violence,” demanding the regime’s government return to the Istanbul Women’s Agreement.
Several women's rights activists asserted that women in Turkey feel more danger and less protection since Turkey withdrew from the Istanbul Agreement.
It is noteworthy that the Turkish regime officially withdrew last July from the Council of Europe Convention for the Protection of Women and against Domestic Violence and Violence against them, and although it does not maintain official statistics on the killing of women, the data of the “Crimes Against Women” organization’s website showed that 1964 women were murdered in Turkey since 2010 The World Health Organization also revealed that 38 percent of Turkish women are exposed to violence from their partner.