Defending the Istanbul Convention: A Struggle for a Future without Violence
The Council of Europe’s Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence, the
Istanbul Convention, seeks to assure victim protection and to end the impunity of perpetrators. In July 2020, longstanding efforts of Islamic sects and male groups to withdraw from the Convention were embraced by the Bulgaria, Hungary, Czech Republic, Latvia, Lithuania, and Slovakia, all EU member states. Selime Büyükgöze suggests in her article for the
Vienna Institute for International Dialogue and Cooperation that this was in support of Turkey’s earlier decision to withdraw. She argues that with approximately four out of every ten Turkish women being subjected to physical violence by their intimate partners, conservatives in Central Europe and Turkey imitate each other, in a discourse not about tradition or national values, but about misogyny. This is a strong indicator that anti-gender and anti-convention defenders are not just a problem in Turkey, but a wider European problem.
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