Women in Switzerland and France took to the streets today to protest Turkey’s withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention by a Presidential decree.

News Center- Women keep protesting Turkey’s withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention by a Presidential decree. Today, many women, including members of the Bern Mizgin Women's Council, Socialist Refoundation Party (SYKP), Bern Women's Council, Switzerland Women’s Strike Collective Women's Strike and Women's Climate Collective and refugee women, came together at Bahnhofplatz Square to protest Turkey’s decision and issued a press statement.

Mizgin Women's Council members made the statement on behalf of all participating women's organizations. Women urged Turkey to immediately return to the Istanbul Convention.

Switzerland

Members of many women’s organizations gathered at Bahnhofplatz Square in Basel city of Switzerland. Women said, “We will be in solidarity with female prisoners and women who take to the streets for their rights.”

Women shouted slogans and marched to Claraplazt Square.

France

Women gathered at Les Halles Square in France’s Paris city and protested Turkey’s withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention. Members of the L'ACORT Turkish Citizens' Assembly, the World March of Women, the France Kurdistan, the Turkish Migrant Association, the French Kurdish Women's Movement (TJK-F), the Socialist Women's Union, and the representatives of Tunisian, Iranian, Moroccan, and French women’s movements also joined the protest.

Strasbourg

Women’s organizations came together upon the call of the Zin Women's Initiative in France’s Strasbourg city and protested AKP’s withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention. Women carried banners reading, “Istanbul Convention keeps alive”, “Jin Jiyan Azadi (Women, Life, Freedom” and “Stop Male Violence” and they shouted slogans in Kurdish, Turkish and French.