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‘WE’RE AGAST LGBT’: ERDOğAN TARGETS GAY AND TRANS PEOPLE AHEAD OF CRIL TURKISH ELECTN

They say Erdoğan’s re-electn risks further fuellg a culture war that he and his supporters have done much to flame, empowerg stutns to crack down on anyone seen as different and to turn a bld eye to a statewi problem of vlence agast women, gay and trans people. ”An Erdoğan victory, says Akbulut, risks formalisg to policy the kd of hatred that the print has ployed on the mpaign trail, and legimisg attacks on gay rights, particularly the right to anise. Photograph: Sedat Suna/EPAAkşener has spoken openly of Turkey’s need to return to the Istanbul nventn, but has been more ut on gay rights, statg that while she would be unhappy wh a gay child she was also agast vlence towards LGBTQ+ Women’s Platform for Equaly (EŞİK), a femist aln, found that leftwg parti were far more likely to field female ndidat, but no party managed genr pary any of s electoral lists.

(Istanbul) – Turkish police attacked and arrted hundreds of people at the Istanbul Pri March on June 26, 2022, a sweepg display of vlence and discrimatn agast lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people, Human Rights Watch said today. The same day, Fahrett Altun, Print Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s munitns director, ma an anti-LGBT speech, sayg that “Fai and children [are] targeted through … tolerance for homosexualy propaganda” and llg homosexualy “ugls. “As today’s report mak clear, that perd many endured the most horrific sexual abe and vlence, homophobic bullyg and harassment, all while bravely servg this untry, ” Sunak told MP.

Promisg the ernment would implement the “vast majory” of Etherton’s remendatns, Wallace said he would fully update the Commons a formal bate about the issue after the about pensatn, Wallace said he hoped to fd “an elegant solutn that match the need and the requirements of those dividuals”, promisg to set this out after Kelly Holm, who served the army and me out as gay last year, was among mpaigners who weled the apology. Starmer said one of his nstuents, Ken Wright, a former RAF service member who was “forced to leave the job he loved simply bee he was gay”, was the public gallery to hear the apology.

From Istanbul to Izmir, thoands of Turkish activists took to the streets prott to memorate lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) Pri month June. In March 2021, after the ernment received wispread domtic and ternatnal cricism for whdrawg om the Council of Europe Conventn on Preventg and Combattg Vlence agast Women and Domtic Vlence (known as the Istanbul Conventn), officials rpond wh an anti-LGBT statement and clared that they whdrew om the nventn bee is beg hijacked by groups to normalize homosexualy. Homophobic ernment statements like the have reverberatg effects the public sphere, where LGBT rights groups have documented a dramatic rise anti-LGBT rhetoric the news.

“La crimalización l sexo gay ota una aprobación tatal táca a la discrimación y la vlencia que las personas LGBT experimentan en su vida tidiana y obliga a muchas ellas a pensar en emigrar para vivir libremente y cumplir s sueños”, explicó Cristian González Cabrera, vtigador rechos las personas LGBT Human Rights Watch. Estas ley stan al sexo gay nsensuado en la sección sobre “los sexual” l código penal que, por lo más, tá rervada a los o vlación, cto y agrión sexual.

Un hombre gay 25 años San Vicente dijo a Human Rights Watch: “La gente siente que pue asarnos bido a que existen tas ley. Algunas personas dijeron que el rechazo faiar a menudo se expraba en térmos moralistas que replin la retóri homofóbi predida por algunas iglias, que son una piedra angular la vida social y molan las actus social en San Vicente y las Granadas. Todas las personas LGBT entrevistadas diron que seaban irse l país e imagaban su futuro en el extranjero bido, en parte, a la vlencia y discrimación homofóbi o transfóbi.

REUTERS/Marton Mon/File PhotoBUDAPEST, July 14 (Rters) - The embassi of the Uned Stat, Germany and 36 other untri urged Hungary's ernment to protect the rights of LGBT people and scrap laws that discrimate agast them a statement ahead of Budapt's Pri march on Mister Viktor Orban's ernment promot a strongly Christian-nservative agenda and passed a law 2021 banng the "display and promotn of homosexualy" among unr-18s, spe cricism om rights groups and the European a jot statement, the embassi and about 10 cultural stutns cludg the Brish Council, the Estonian Instute and Instut Français said they supported Saturday's event which is expected to draw thoands to downtown Budapt.

Lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer (LGBTQ) persons Turkey face legal challeng not experienced by non-LGBTQ rints, though Turkey’s LGBTQ rights are nsired to be relatively progrsive pared to most other Mlim-majory untri. However, many gay and bisexual men who lived durg this perd have sce said terviews that they felt prsured by social attus and ernment policy to rema the closet about their sexual inty. In the 1980s, the Radil Democratic Green Party exprsed support for gay rights, cludg the work of a group of transgenr people to prott police btaly.

Homosexualy and asexualy are both allowed the untry, but Turkey ntu to rema at the send spot for the most rtrictive untry Europe for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBTQI) equaly polici and laws (ILGA Europe annual review, 2019). It is even worthy to note that though homosexualy and asexualy are nsired legal, same-sex marriage is not legally regnized.