News Center- The People’s Equality and Democracy Party (HEDEP) called the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Turkish Grand National Assembly to have an urgent meeting for discussion on the re-signing of the Istanbul Convention.

In the petition submitted to the committee, the HEDEP recalled that Turkey was the first country to ratify the convention and that Turkey withdrew from the convention after an overnight decree issued by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. The HEDEP said that the withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention is unconstitutional. “The convention can only be abolished by the will of the Parliament, the legislative authority.

The HEDEP demanded the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Turkish Grand National Assembly to have an urgent meeting for discussion on the re-signing of the Istanbul Convention.