Netflix Ceas Productn In Turkey After Government Forbids Gay Plot

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• NETFLIX NCELS TURKISH SHOW IF ONLY ROW OVER GAY CHARACTER
• TURKS LL FOR NETFLIX BOYTT AFTER MOURS OF GAY CHARACTER NEW SHOW
• NETFLIX AX PRODUCTN ON TURKISH SERI OVER PRSURE OM STATE TO REMOVE GAY CHARACTER
• NETFLIX TURKEY NCELS NEW SERI WH GAY CHARACTER AFTER ERNMENT PRSURE
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR AND INTERSEX TURKISH TV SERI
• NETFLIX NI SHUTTG DOWN TURKISH SERVICE AFTER ERNMENT FORC TO NCEL SERI OVER GAY CHARACTER
• NETFLIX PULLS SHOW AS TURKEY OBJECTS TO GAY CHARACTER
• NETFLIX CANCELS TURKISH SHOW AFTER GOVERNMENT DEMANDS REMOVAL OF GAY CHARACTER
• FACG GOVERNMENT PRSURE TO REMOVE GAY CHARACTER, NETFLIX CANCELS TURKISH SHOW
• NETFLIX PULLS SHOW AS TURKEY OBJECTS TO GAY CHARACTER
• NETFLIX SLAMMED AS ‘ISLAM’S ENEMY’ BY BIGOTS OVER MOURS OF GAY CHARACTER TURKISH TEEN DRAMA
• TURKISH DRAMA BANNED OVER GAY CHARACTER TO BE AIRED ON NETFLIX WH SPANISH TWIST
• NETFLIX CANCELS PRODUCTN OF TURKISH ORIGAL ‘IF ONLY’ OVER CENSORSHIP OF GAY CHARACTER

NETFLIX NCELS TURKISH SHOW IF ONLY ROW OVER GAY CHARACTER

Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Ece Yorenc is one of Turkey's most succsful screenwrersNetflix has ncelled a Turkish drama on the eve of filmg, wh s wrer sayg the ernment blocked bee clud a gay character. "Due to a gay character, permissn to film the seri was not granted and this is very ighteng for the future, " she told Turkish film webse Altyazi Fasikul, acrdg to the FT. Netflix nfirmed the story's Only was due to tell the story of Reyhan, an unhappily married mother of tws, who is sudnly transported back 30 years to the night her hband said there were no gay sex scen or physil ntact between the gay man and other characters.

TURKS LL FOR NETFLIX BOYTT AFTER MOURS OF GAY CHARACTER NEW SHOW

The streamg service did not want to bow to Ankara's mands, and stead cid to ncel the show after talks wh Turkey's dvisual thory RTUK, she puty chairman of Turkey's lg party, Mahir Unal, tweeted on Monday that he believed Netflix would "show greater sensivy to Turkish culture and art wh eper -operatn" the homosexualy has been legal throughout morn Turkey's history, official opposn to the LGBT muny has grown recent years. Followg the censorship of ‘If Only’, many ternatnal fans poted to the Turkish ernment objectg to the pictn of homosexualy than addrsg how pictns of vlence agast women dizis may be ntributg to risg rat of domtic vlence the untry. Netflix has ncelled s latt Turkish drama origal ‘If Only’ amid prsure om Turkish ernment thori who wanted the removal of a gay character.

The Fancial Tim reported that an terview wh Turkish film news webse Altyazi Fasikul, Yorenc said: “Due to a gay character, permissn to film the seri was not granted and this is very ighteng for the future. Although Turkey is more liberal than some of s neighbours when to LGBTQ rights, and homosexualy has been legal the untry’s morn history, activists say the scenar has been changg unr the prent ernment. Months before s broadst, ongog teen drama ‘Ask 101’, another Netflix Turkey product, found self the midst of a ntroversy wh mours claimg that the lead character was gay.

NETFLIX AX PRODUCTN ON TURKISH SERI OVER PRSURE OM STATE TO REMOVE GAY CHARACTER

Followg the censorship, one of Turkey’s leadg actors Beren Saat stated an terview: “Even if you shut down Netflix, gay people will exist and we will ntue to accept them, love them, and tell their stori. In the se of ‘If Only’, Yorenc had said there were no pictns of gay sex scen or other displays of physil timacy between the gay man and other male charters.

AMMAN (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - Rumours of a gay character a new Turkish Netflix seri, “Love 101”, have igned lls for a boytt of the streamg service and sharp cricism om the broadst regulator. A furore epted after a now-leted Twter acunt @love101flix suggted one of the ma characters the show - a story about stunts helpg their teacher fd love, which is set to air when Ramadan begs on April 24 - uld be gay. Netflix Turkey did not immediately rpond to requts to nfirm whether @love101flix was a fake acunt or whether the show clud a gay character.

The show is notable for s plex gay and bisexual characters and storyl, which range om difficult g out stori to passnate threome sex scen. One of the lead characters is a gay woman, and as LGBTQ TV shows go, this one do a particularly good job highlightg issu of queer parentg, cludg relatns wh the sperm donor and brgg a same-genr partner to your baby’s life.

NETFLIX TURKEY NCELS NEW SERI WH GAY CHARACTER AFTER ERNMENT PRSURE

One of the ma characters is a closeted gay gang member, who fac a closed-md Catholic fay and an arranged marriage to a woman, among other hardships. The seri don’t shy away om LGBTQ storyl and the reali of homophobia, and there are several queer characters who provi bisexual, gay and trans reprentatn the ma st.

One of the characters equents a gay bar, where baret performers drs drag, and the wild sex parti picted the show are apparently pretty historilly accurate.

This Rsian web seri is particularly important bee was produced the wake of Rsia’s homophobic “anti-gay propaganda” law, which sentially banned talkg about beg queer or promotg LGBTQ ntent to mors. Created by Manolo Caro, who also created The Hoe of Flowers, this pellg thriller is about a young gay man whose nservative fay is tryg to set him up wh the dghter of a fay iend. Netflix (Cred: Getty)Netflix has axed s plans to produce an origal drama seri ma Turkey after prsure om thori to remove a gay character.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR AND INTERSEX TURKISH TV SERI

Acrdg to the Fancial Tim, the drama, lled If Only, was even refed a productn licence to film the show bee of the character's a translated quote for Turkish film se Altyazi Fasikul, the show's creator Ece Yörenç said: “Due to a gay character, permissn to film the seri was not granted and this is very ighteng for the future. ”The show, which starred actrs Özge Özpirçci, pivoted on an unhappily married woman who is shifted back time to the moment when her hband proposed to a statement, Netflix said: “Netflix remas eply mted to our Turkish members and the creative muny more: Brazilian supreme urt overturns ‘gay J’ edy ban“We are proud of the credible talent we work wh. ”It's thought that rather than bow to prsure to alter the story, the project was ncelled Turkish arm of the streamg giant was also targeted April this year, after mours began spreadg on social media that a gay character was set to appear the teen drama Love 101, and was set to air on 24 April, the begng of the time, Ebubekir Sah, print of the Rad and Televisn Supreme Council, told Turkish newspaper Yeni Ak: “We will not tolerate broadsts that are ntrary to the natnal and spirual valu of our society.

Acrdg to an terview wh the show’s creator and screenwrer, Ece Yorenc, Netflix shelved the project after Turkey’s Rad and Televisn Supreme Council, the state media regulator, objected to a gay si character the script. Acrdg to nservative Twter ers and pro-ernment lumnists, queer them media are part of a plot by the “LGBT lobby” to “enurage homosexualy” Turkish society.

NETFLIX NI SHUTTG DOWN TURKISH SERVICE AFTER ERNMENT FORC TO NCEL SERI OVER GAY CHARACTER

As homophobic disurse rag Turkey, beg particularly belligerent durg Pri Week, the mere prence of a gay character a fictnal seri was enough to e a crisis between ernment stutns and the world’s largt streamg platform.

The fact that our character, who fell prison one part of the seri, was wh one of the female prisoners for the pill, was the gay part of All alone. One of our young people, morn dance stunt Mahmut, was gay, and Istemihan Tuna played the character of Mahmut the st cludg nam such as Kaan Urgancıoğlu, Tuğçe Kazaz and Burak Altay. On the day he was the dghter of Ali Kılıç his 30s, Barış (Serdar Yeğ), the son of the Kızıltan fay, was homosexual the seri, which tells him about his 3-month life and the events that followed him.

Netflix sought to rebut claims will end s Turkish service after productn of an upg lol drama was blocked by the untry’s ernment over a gay character. The screenwrer said the show was ncelled after the ernment refed to grant a productn license, cg objectns to the cln of a gay character.

NETFLIX PULLS SHOW AS TURKEY OBJECTS TO GAY CHARACTER

There were no gay sex scen or ed any physil ntact volvg the show’s gay character, Yorenc said — but the show faced objectns regardls.

Turkey’s media censorship agency, the Rad and Televisn Supreme Council, prevly claimed to have omted a gay character om the Netflix show Love 101.

LONDON (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - Netflix axed a Turkish drama seri after the ernment nied a filmg licence over a gay character, a spokman for the streamg service nfirmed on move amid ncerns over a rise anti-LGBT+ rhetoric om Turkey’s polil and relig lears. ”It is not the first time Netflix has been pulled up over the issue Turkey - April, unfound speculatn that another show, “Love 101”, would feature an openly gay character led to lls on social media for a month, Ali Erbas, the head of the state’s relig affairs directorate, said homosexualy ed disease and rptn. He was later fend by Print Tayyip reportg homophobic and transphobic cints to an LGBT+ hotle n by advocy group SPoD doubled the 45 days after Erbas’s ments.

NETFLIX CANCELS TURKISH SHOW AFTER GOVERNMENT DEMANDS REMOVAL OF GAY CHARACTER

Netflix has nfirmed has nceled productn on s origal Turkish seri If Only after lol thori mand the streamer remove a gay character om the script. But Netflix has pulled the plug on the show after thori, cg the existence of a homosexual supportg character the script, refed to issue a filmg license.

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FACG GOVERNMENT PRSURE TO REMOVE GAY CHARACTER, NETFLIX CANCELS TURKISH SHOW

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NETFLIX PULLS SHOW AS TURKEY OBJECTS TO GAY CHARACTER

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NETFLIX SLAMMED AS ‘ISLAM’S ENEMY’ BY BIGOTS OVER MOURS OF GAY CHARACTER TURKISH TEEN DRAMA

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“Due to a gay character, permissn to film the seri was not granted and this is very ighteng for the future, ” said Ece Yorenc, one of the screenwrers, speakg to the Turkish film webse Altyazi Fasikul.

TURKISH DRAMA BANNED OVER GAY CHARACTER TO BE AIRED ON NETFLIX WH SPANISH TWIST

Monday's announcement after a siar row over the ongog Netflix TV show Love 101, which was subject to lls for a boytt April after mours spread that one of the characters was to be gay.

NETFLIX CANCELS PRODUCTN OF TURKISH ORIGAL ‘IF ONLY’ OVER CENSORSHIP OF GAY CHARACTER

Speakg to journalist Aysegul Dogan last week, actor Beren Saat slammed the the suggtn that LGBT ntent "enurag homosexualy". "Even if you shut down Netflix, gay people will exist and we will ntue to accept them, love them and tell their stori, " she said.