Turkey quits Istanbul Convention, an international treaty to prevent violence against women – CNN Video

In May of 2011 Turkey was the first signatory to the Istanbul Convention, a treaty accepted as the gold standard to protect women from violence and femicide. Nearly a decade later the government withdrew, claiming its updates laws protected women sufficiently. CNN’s Arwa Damon spoke to a brokenhearted father whose 17 year-old, five month pregnant daughter was stabbed more than a dozen times by her husband.

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