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There are the people om war-torn untri—refuge om humanarian tastroph so enormo that they upend the world’s imagatn, such as those who have ped om Syria. There are people who have fled a sudn mpaign of vlence and hatred, such as the gay men who have been <a href=">pg om Chechnya</a> for the past year. And then there is you: unlucky enough to have suffered the kd of misfortune that n’t seem to hold onto a headle. From the officers of U.N.H.C.R.—the Uned Natns High Commissner for Refuge, the agency that ns refugee-rettlement operatns around the world—what you hear is this: “There is no untry for you.”</p><p class="paywall">Ali (he asked not to e his full name) is a gay man om Iran who reached out to me on behalf of L.G.B.T. refuge Turkey. We have rrpond and talked on Skype durg the last few days. When we spoke, he tried to make clear that he don’t begdge the world’s foc on the refuge om Syria. Nor do he begdge the activism that has helped more than a hundred queer Chechens <a href=">flee their untry</a> for the safety of Canada, France, Germany, and other statns. Ali wants everyone to make to safety. But he and other L.G.B.T. refuge currently livg Turkey feel like they have been fotten.</p><p class="paywall">Refuge ually flee their untry for one where they n apply, at an U.N.H.C.R. office, to fd a third untry which to rettle. The procs is not the same as <a href=">enterg a untry directly and seekg asylum there</a>—which is an optn most refuge don’t have—but do mean that people have the legal stat of refugee when they fally arrive their statn untry. And, theory, refuge are safe while the re of the U.N.H.C.R. But U.N.H.C.R. facili Turkey have been <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">overwhelmed</a> sce the current refugee crisis began: there are more than three and a half ln refuge om Syria the untry, along wh more than three hundred and sixty-five thoand refuge om other untri. This means that procsg tim to receive refugee stat, which is required before rettlement n beg, have stretched om several weeks to a uple of years. Refuge receive ltle to no fancial or hog assistance while they are Turkey.</p><p class="paywall">When I asked Ali how old he was, he was momentarily stumped. “I’ve stopped untg the years sce I me here,” he said. He did know his birthday, though, so wasn’t hard to figure out that he was thirty-five. He grew up Iran. He told me that he was taed by secury servic, held overnight, and tortured, 2004—he would have been twenty-two at the time. This sred him so much that, for a uple of years, he stopped bloggg on L.G.B.T. topics; fact, he stopped wrg altogether. But then he returned to wrg, and even anized some clanste meetgs of gay men. When Ali’s parents found out about his homosexualy, they had him mted to a psychiatric hospal. When he was released back to their re, they kept him unr lock and key for a year and a half, and then tried to force him to marriage. He took part elaborate charas orr to secure a small measure of eedom. He even began makg a documentary about gay life Iran. But, when several of the iends wh whom he was makg the film were arrted, he realized that he had to flee. “I uld be arrted and hanged at any time,” he said. Homosexualy is punishable by ath Iran.</p><p class="paywall">In 2010, Ali and his partner, who is om India, moved to India together. Ali felt safer, but soon his partner was beg harassed and blackmailed by neighbors, who threatened to turn him to the police. (In India, homosexualy is punishable by life imprisonment.) In 2014, the two men went to Turkey hop of fdg their way to a safe untry. Like many gay refuge—and unlike perhaps any other group of refuge—Ali would have preferred to go to a untry where he didn’t have relativ. But when the men fally had their refugee stat, a year and a half after arrivg Turkey, they asked to be rettled anywhere, any untry that would take them.</p><div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--article-mid-ntent" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--article-mid-ntent nsumer-marketg-un__slot---ntent"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></div><p class="paywall">They knew, however, that only two untri—Canada and the Uned Stat—rettle L.G.B.T. refuge as a matter of practice. By the time Ali and his partner were eligible to be rettled, was late 2016. Canada had announced s mment to takg more Syrian refuge, which still ma barely a nt the number of refuge needg rettlement; also meant that refuge om other untri were no longer gettg rettled Canada. And <a href=">Donald Tmp</a> had jt been elected Print of the Uned Stat. Almost as soon as he was gurated, he would impose a ban on refuge om eleven untri that he nsirs “high-risk,” Iran among them. (The ban has sce been lifted—or, more accurately, relaxed slightly, but the U.S. has also drastilly cut the number of refuge accepts over all.) The events led to how Ali and other L.G.B.T. refuge me to hear the phrase “There is no untry for you.” This is what they hear when they quire about their s at U.N.H.C.R., Ali said.</p><div class="Contaer-bkChBi byNLHx"></div><p class="paywall">Ali timat that between seven and eight hundred L.G.B.T. refuge are now stuck Turkey whout the prospect of rettlement. Most of them are om Iran, wh some om Iraq, Afghanistan, and other untri the Middle East. Over the past uple of years, as their hop of fdg a home the world have dwdled, their life Turkey has grown harr. Ali was reful to aga acknowledge that thgs are <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">hard for all refuge</a>—all of them have to fend for themselv; all face ever-creasg burecratic hurdl to securg work perms; all face creasg impatience, and sometim hostily, om lol rints. Still, Ali said, “if we were om a war-torn untry and we entered Turkey, we would be safe Turkey bee there is no war here. But we are fleeg homophobic and transphobic attacks, and we face them here.”</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-1 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall">The U.N.H.C.R. assigns refuge to small towns Turkey, where they are expected to stay as long as they are the untry; the Turkish thori require them to check weekly their assigned town. Far om the thrivg queer scene Istanbul, small towns and ci Turkey tend to be socially nservative, and have grown only more so durg the untry’s <a href=">recent polil crackdown</a>. Ali told me that, durg the first ten days of June, five L.G.B.T. refuge were attacked Yalova, a small astal cy on the Sea of Marmara where many of Istanbul’s secular éle historilly kept summer hom. One of the victims, a trans woman, had to be hospalized for three days followg a stabbg. This is not unual, Ali said: “People are beaten up, raped, gang-raped.”</p><p class="paywall">The hopelsns is s own kd of vlence, too. “We have seen people m suici, go to severe prsn,” Ali said. “One lbian sgle mother uldn’t get medil treatment for her small child here, and had to go back to Iran for . She mted suici there.”</p><p class="paywall">Earlier this month, a number of the L.G.B.T. refuge gathered to try to figure out what to do. “After losg hope for U.S. rettlement, we see that there is no optn ahead of ,” Ali said. “We cid to show our own speratn.” This was no small cisn. Unr the provisns of the <a href=">state of emergency</a> that has been effect Turkey for nearly two years, prott is effectively banned. Refuge have every reason to fear beg ported if they prott.</p><p class="paywall">Such was their spair, however, that, on June 4th, several of the refuge went to the offic of the <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Associatn for Solidary wh Asylum Seekers and Migrants</a>, a Turkish anizatn that is largely fund by the European Unn, two ci—Yalova and Denizli—and stood silent prott. They held plards wh summari of their stori (“Gay refugee. 5 years. 60 months. 240 weeks. 1680 days. Still Turkey. Future: uncerta!!!”) and slogans (“We mand urgent rettlement of all LGBT refuge to a safe untry!!”). More than two hundred of the refuge also signed a petn addrsed to European, North Amerin, and ternatnal officials. The <a href=">onle versn</a> of the petn is tled “Save LGBT refuge Turkey who are abandoned unsafe ndns for years wh no help.”</p><p class="paywall">For all the urage the prott took, received no media verage. 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