“Turkey’s withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention on violence against women has shaken up our agenda”, says Rik Daems, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). “While we were supposed to devote the June plenary to the environment, this text will be at the heart of the debates”.
On the Turkish side, Rik Daems was given the commitment that a debate would be organised in the Grand National Assembly, but without much hope of a reversal, since the...