The Istanbul Convention, negotiated in Turkey's biggest city and signed in 2011, had committed its signatories to prevent and ...

"As known, Turkey was the first signatory to the Istanbul Convention," the statement noted, arguing that the "İstanbul Convention, originally intended to promote women's rights, was hijacked by a ...

At 3 a.m. on Saturday morning, Turkey announced through its official gazette that it was formally withdrawing from the Istanbul Convention, an international treaty to combat violence against women and ...

Meanwhile, another decree issued by the Turkish presidency said the central bank governor Naci Agbal has been replaced with ...

After the Presidential decree pulling Turkey out of the İstanbul Convention has been met with criticisms and objections in both Turkey and around the world, the Communications Directorate of the ...

In a single-paragraph statement issued at around 2am on March 20, Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan pulled his country out of the Council of Europe’s Convention on Preventing and Combating ...