ISTANBUL CONVENTION AND AN ASSESSMENT OF THE 2017 TURKEY SHADOW REPORT

The European Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence”, is known as Istanbul Convention, was signed in Istanbul on 11 May 2011, and was enacted in 1 August 2014. This Convention is the first international agreement binding on Violence Against Women. The Convention emphasizes the need for the prevention of violence against women, the protection of women victims of violence, the effective prosecution and Punishment of those who perpetuate violence against women, and the need for multilateral strategies to address these issues. In this context, it is seen that the state s perspective on gender equality and empowerment of women is essential for effective combat with violence. The 11th part of the Istanbul Convention, under the heading of “Monitoring Mechanism”, organized “GREVIO”, A Group of Experts on Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence Against Women. GREVIO is made up of experts in the field of violence against women created to check whether the requirements of the Convention have been met. The first evaluation period of GREVIO, consisting of 10 members elected in 2015, began in 2016. In this study, after informing about the Istanbul Convention and its supervisory body, strike, the Istanbul Convention will be evaluated by the Turkish monitoring platform on 2017 Shadow Report on Turkey’s first report on the legal and other measures to implement the provisions of the European Convention on combating and combating violence against women and domestic violence.