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Turkey: Erdoğan’s Onslaught on Rights and Democracy

NewsdeskWorld - LGBTQ RightsMarch 24, 2021

Targets Women, Kurds, LGBT People, Democratic Safeguards

Politics

Turkish government steps up its attacks on LGBTI+ citizens

NewsdeskPoliticsFebruary 5, 2021April 17, 2024

Europe’s leading LGBTI+ rights organisation, ILGA-Europe are alarmed to observe that in the past week the Turkish government has stepped up its systematic attacks on and defamation of LGBTI+ people and calls on President Erdoğan to guarantee the fundamental rights of all minorities without discrimination, as enshrined in the country’s Constitution.

World - LGBTQ Rights

Turkey: End Ankara Ban on LGBTI Events

NewsdeskWorld - LGBTQ RightsFebruary 14, 2019

The ban in Turkey’s capital Ankara on public events focused on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) issues discriminates against LGBTI people and violates their fundamental rights, and should therefore be immediately lifted, Human Rights Watch said today.

World - LGBTQ Rights

Prominent Turkish LGBTIQ Activist Arrested in His Home in Ankara

PressdeskWorld - LGBTQ RightsFebruary 2, 2018

On Friday morning, Ali Erol, a prominent Turkish human rights activist and a founder of Kaos GL Association, Turkey’s first registered LGBTQ organisation, was arrested and detained in a home he shares with his partner.

World - Pride & Event

Turkey bans all LGBTQ events in capital to ‘protect public security’

NewsdeskWorld - Pride & EventNovember 19, 2017

Ankara governor’s office claims LGBTQ film screenings, theatre shows and exhibitions endanger ‘health and morality’ by inflaming ‘social sensitivities’

World - Pride & Event

Turkish Government Must Respect and Protect LGBTI People’s Right to Peaceful Assembly

LGBTnewswire.euWorld - Pride & EventJune 30, 2015

The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) today condemned the Turkish government’s use of pepper spray, water cannons, and rubber bullets to stop the 13th Istanbul lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) Pride Parade, which was scheduled to take place on Sunday, June 28.

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