Turkey’s communists at the forefront of the struggle for women’s rights, against femicides – In Defense of Communism

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Thousands of women took the streets in more than 16 cities in Turkey, on August 5, demonstrating under the slogan "We are not giving up our rights, implement the Istanbul Convention".

In Istanbul's Kadky district, women carried placards with the name of 350 murdered women and the slogan "She would be alive if the Istanbul Convention was implemented".In Izmir, protesters faced with police's violent response and 16 women werre detained.

The "Istanbul Convention", also known as the Convention of the Council of Europe "on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence", was signed in Istanbul in May 2011 and entered into force in August 2014. However, officials of Erdogan's ruling AKP party have implied that Turkey could withdraw from the international agreement, calling the signing of the "Istanbul Convention" a "mistake".

A total of 474 women were killed in 2019, as a result of femicides and gender-based violence, which is the highest rate in a decade. According to the campaign group "We will stop femicides", at least 36 women were murdered by men this July.

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