Kaos GL Association Media Coordinator Yıldız Tar and SPoD Association Legal Advisor lawyer Hatice Demir have spoken to bianet about the impacts of Turkey’s withdrawal from the İstanbul Convention on LGBTI+s in the country.

In a joint statement, six organizations under the roof of Human Rights Joint Platform say, “We declare that we are on the side of women’s movement laying claim to the convention and will keep on struggling together to lay claim to this convention.”

HDP's Gergerlioğlu was stripped of his parliamentary seat and started to keep a "justice watch" at the parliament prior to his detention.

Nilgün Arısan, the Director of TEPAV European Union Institute, has answered our questions about Turkey’s withdrawal from the İstanbul Convention within the context of the country’s relations with the European Union.

Rights defender Sebla Arcan: “The lawsuit filed against Saturday Mothers/ People has been filed against the struggle for rights waged by the relatives of the enforced disappeared, who are themselves rights defenders.”

In separate statements, the US president has marked Newroz and criticized Turkey for pulling out of the İstanbul Convention on combating violence against women.

The Turkish Statistical Institute has shared the labor force statistics for 2020. The number of unemployed was 4 million 61 thousand 408 thousand in 2020, which marked a 0.5 point increase when compared to the previous year.

In a written statement about Turkey’s withdrawal from the İstanbul Convention by a Presidential decree, the Communications Directorate argues that the convention “was hijacked by a group of people attempting to normalize homosexuality.”

According to a statement released by the Interior Ministry of Turkey, over the past week, 22 thousand 810 people faced legal or administrative action for failing to comply with the weeknight and weekend curfews as part of COVID-19 measures.

The lira has plunged after the Central Bank governor was replaced with a pro-government economist advocating lower interest rates.

The message given from Newroz celebrations in Turkey’s Kurdish-majority Diyarbakır province: “Turkey is heading towards a one-man regime; the closure of the HDP means that all political groups will lose political ground.”

Seven people, four arrested, have been indicted for protesting the appointed rector of Boğaziçi University in İstanbul’s Kadıköy. They face up to 11 years in prison on a series of charges including “damaging public property.”

Top European Union officials have made statements about Turkey’s withdrawal from the İstanbul Convention by the decree of President and ruling AKP Chair Erdoğan; they have urged the country to reverse its decision.

Answering the questions of bianet about the closure case filed against the HDP, imprisoned former Co-Chair of the HDP Selahattin Demirtaş says, “I am sure we will foil all these unjust attacks before the law and at the ballot box.”

According to Health Ministry data, 20,428 people have tested positive for coronavirus and 102 people have lost their lives in Turkey in the last 24 hours. 1,568 patients are reportedly in critical condition.

Stripped of his MP status on March 17 and keeping a justice watch at the Parliament since then, HDP’s Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu was taken into custody as part of a new investigation. He has been released later in the day.

We have spoken with women's rights defenders about the presidential decree for Turkey's withdrawal from the İstanbul Convention.

Women have taken to the streets to protest the Presidential decree withdrawing Turkey’s signature from the İstanbul Convention. They have once again underlined that the convention saves lives.

The decision was intended to prevent the new Taksim Square project, the İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality has said.

Shortly after the Presidential decree foreseeing Turkey’s withdrawal from the İstanbul Convention was published in the Official Gazette, it is met with criticisms by several institutions in the world.