ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Riot police fired pepper fuel to disperse demonstrators who gathered in Istanbul on Thursday to protest violence in opposition to ladies, some chanting “authorities resign”, almost 5 months after Turkey withdrew from a treaty on the problem.
The group of a number of thousand, largely ladies, marched to the town centre’s Taksim Sq., blocked off with obstacles amid a heavy police presence. The police fired the fuel and scuffled with the protesters after urging the group to disperse.
The protest, held to mark the worldwide day for the elimination of violence in opposition to ladies, coincided with different small anti-government protests this week over the sharp slide within the worth of the lira foreign money.
The protesters chanted and assist up banners, demanding pressing motion in opposition to gender-based violence in Turkey.
“We’re not silent, not afraid, not obeying,” chanted the demonstrators, who rushed on the police obstacles.
At the beginning of July, Turkey withdrew from a world treaty to fight violence in opposition to ladies, referred to as the Istanbul Conference and negotiated in Turkey’s greatest metropolis in 2011, in a transfer strongly criticised by Western allies.
Erdogan introduced the withdrawal in March, saying Turkey would use native legal guidelines to guard ladies’s rights.
(Reporting by Yesim Dikmen, Mehmet Emin Caliskan, Huseyin Aldemir, Umit Bektas; Writing by Daren Butler; Modifying by Nick Zieminski)
