Tag: Turkey
Turkey: Erdoğan’s Onslaught on Rights and Democracy
Targets Women, Kurds, LGBT People, Democratic Safeguards
Turkey: End Probe of Women Over Shouted Slogans
Arrests of Activists and Anti-LGBT Stance Mars Women’s Day Celebrations
Turkish government steps up its attacks on LGBTI+ citizens
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.
Turkish court postpones trial of 19 Pride attendees, infringing their right to fair judicial process
The Turkish courts’ postponement until next April of the trial of 19 people accused of “unlawful assembly” after taking part in an LGBTI Pride march last year is clearly infringing their right to a fair trial, and sending a worrying signal from the judiciary, says ILGA-Europe.
Turkey: 19 LGBTI Pride marchers must be acquitted in forthcoming trial
Turkey must uphold its domestic and international commitments, and dismiss all charges against 19 human rights defenders, prosecuted for their participation in a peaceful Pride march at Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara in May 2019, says Europe’s largest LGBTI rights umbrella organisation, ILGA-Europe.
Turkey: Criminal Case for Opposing Homophobic Speech
End Stigmatisation of LGBT People, Investigation of Bar Associations.