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Turkey pulls out of landmark treaty protecting women from violence
News of President Erdogan's decree to abandon a treaty designed to prevent violence against women has sparked anger among rights groups and calls for protests.Turkey has pulled out of the world's first binding treaty to prevent and combat violence against women by presidential decree, in the latest victory for conservatives in President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling party.The 2011 Istanbul Convention, signed by 45 countries and the European Union, requires governments to adopt legislation prosecuting domestic violence and similar abuse as well as marital rape and female genital mutilation.Conservatives had claimed the charter damages family unity, encourages divorce and that its references t

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