Hundreds of people rallied outside Turkey’s highest administrative court on Tuesday as it examines a case hoping to overturn the country’s withdrawal from an international treaty protecting women’s rights, Agence France-Presse reported.
Feminist groups, human rights campaigners and representatives of bar associations across Turkey again called for the withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention to be scrapped.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan pulled Turkey out of the Convention last year. Social conservatives in the country claim it promotes homosexuality and threatens traditional family values.
There have been many legal attempts to cancel the withdrawal, and groups including political parties and NGOs have taken the case to Ankara’s Council of State.
Outside, demonstrators shouted: “We don’t give up because we are right!” and “The Istanbul Convention gives life to women!” as they paraded purple banners, the color of the feminist movement in Turkey.
