“Back to the Middle Ages the withdrawal of Turkey from the Istanbul Convention”

The Turkey’s withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention on Violence against Women comments Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn, calling it a “return to the Middle Ages.”

“I have no understanding of President Erdogan’s decision”, said Jean Asselborn coming to the EU Council of Foreign Ministers in Brussels on Monday (22/3).

«During the signing of the Convention in Istanbul, I remember very well that both former Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and current Mevlüt Çavuşoλουlu, who then chaired the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, were proud“Stated as broadcast by the Athens News Agency.

I can not understand, the minister stressed, “to repeal the Convention in a country where every day there is an act domestic violence which leads to death “and added:” It is a return to the Middle Ages, it is not the way we need to be able to build normal relations with Turkey again “.

Jean Asselborn finally called him Tayyip Erdogan to recall, noting that this is very important “for the image of Turkey and above all of course for the life of women in Turkey”.

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