Turkey pulls out of Istanbul convention

[joluoto]

Turkey pulls out of the international convention that bans domestic violence because it "goes against family values and promotes homosexuality". Turkey was the first country that signed the convention 10 years ago.

Domestic violence: Turkey pulls out of Istanbul convention

Turkey under Erdogan is abandoning secular western values more and more.

 

[ataraxia]

Turkey pulls out of the international convention that bans domestic violence because it "goes against family values and promotes homosexuality". Turkey was the first country that signed the convention 10 years ago.

Domestic violence: Turkey pulls out of Istanbul convention

Turkey under Erdogan is abandoning secular western values more and more.

Interesting.

Yeah it’s really sad to watch. After all, Turkey after Ataturk was a model of an Islamic country successfully entering the modern world. It is amazing how they are falling back to pre-modern values.

But they seem to be part of a similar, larger trend around the world. Look at what happened with Iran with the Islamic Revolution. Before that, Iran was rapidly advancing with its progress on education, women’s rights, etc...

And don’t forget that Orthodox Judaism and radical religionists have also increased in power and influence in Israel in the past few decades as well.

Similar trends have been happened here in the US, with the rise of things like the political rise of Evangelical Christians, the Christian Coalition, televangelists, and mega churches and such.

Remember, by the 1970s or so, religion looked like it was something on its way out in the modern world. But all this reactionary backlash started happening toward the end of the 1970s.

So what happened? This was a book I read a few years ago which I thought offers an interesting explanation: this is all a reaction to too much change too fast with the rise of secular modernity.

Amazon.com

www.amazon.com

 

[ataraxia]

From the book description:

“In the late twentieth century, fundamentalism has emerged as one of the most powerful forces at work in the world, contesting the dominance of modern secular values and threatening peace and harmony around the globe. Yet it remains incomprehensible to a large number of people. In The Battle for God, Karen Armstrong brilliantly and sympathetically shows us how and why fundamentalist groups came into existence and what they yearn to accomplish.

We see the West in the sixteenth century beginning to create an entirely new kind of civilization, which brought in its wake change in every aspect of life -- often painful and violent, even if liberating. Armstrong argues that one of the things that changed most was religion. People could no longer think about or experience the divine in the same way; they had to develop new forms of faith to fit their new circumstances.

Armstrong characterizes fundamentalism as one of these new ways of being religious that have emerged in every major faith tradition. Focusing on Protestant fundamentalism in the United States, Jewish fundamentalism in Israel, and Muslim fundamentalism in Egypt and Iran, she examines the ways in which these movements, while not monolithic, have each sprung from a dread of modernity -- often in response to assault (sometimes unwitting, sometimes intentional) by the mainstream society.

Armstrong sees fundamentalist groups as complex, innovative, and modern -- rather than as throwbacks to the past -- but contends that they have failed in religious terms. Maintaining that fundamentalism often exists in symbiotic relationship with an aggressive modernity, each impelling the other on to greater excess, she suggests compassion as a way to defuse what is now an intensifying conflict.”

 

[tecoyah]

Turkey has abandoned progress and should be abandoned by anyone embracing it. NATO needs to rescind membership as it now goes against everything it stands for.

 

[joluoto]

Turkey has abandoned progress and should be abandoned by anyone embracing it. NATO needs to rescind membership as it now goes against everything it stands for.

NATO has had dictatorships as members before though.

 

[joluoto]

Poland seems to be next in line:

Istanbul Convention: Poland moves a step closer to quitting domestic violence treaty