Turkey on Saturday 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 Erdoğan’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), AFP reported. 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. The platform called for a “collective fight against those who dropped the Istanbul convention,” in a message on Twitter.