The march was taken out to observe the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and demand that the Erdogan government rejoin the Istanbul convention from which it withdrew in July

Faced with an economy in doldrums and falling approval ratings, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has resorted to his usual tactic of indulging nationalistic rhetoric, this time against western ambassadors. Critics have called it an attempt to divert attention from pressing issues