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President and ruling AKP Chair Erdoğan has said, “The violence inflicted on the woman on the sole basis of her gender, especially the act of killing, is not and cannot be accepted by anyone who is a human.”

As pro-government circles debate whether Turkey should withdraw from the convention, the KADEM has announced support for the İstanbul Convention while saying that it will continue to "fight homosexuality."

The convention on violence against women has come under spotlight five years after coming into effect as pro-AKP circles launched a campaign against it after Erdoğan reportedly said that it can be "annulled."