‘We’re agast LGBT’: Erdoğan targets gay and trans people ahead of cril Turkish electn | Human rights | The Guardian

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• THE BEST TüRKIYE GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS TüRKIYE
• ‘WE’RE AGAST LGBT’: ERDOğAN TARGETS GAY AND TRANS PEOPLE AHEAD OF CRIL TURKISH ELECTN
• IS SAFE FOR A GAY MAN TO VIS TURKEY ON HIS OWN? - ISTANBUL FOM

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There were cute and handsome guys, mostly lol Turkish gay man. ISTANBUL — A barrage of homophobic rhetoric has put Turkey’s already vulnerable LGBTQ muny at risk, tarnishg what’s left of the untry’s image as a relatively open Mlim society that has provid shelter for persecuted gays and lbians om across the regn.

In recent months, a spate of slurs has emanated om the hight echelons of power: Print Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has suggted gay people are perverts, a senr public health official pared them to pedophil, and the top imam warned they spread disease.

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Even Netflix is the firg le, wh Turkish regulators prsurg the streamg service to ncel a seri wh a gay character. The sharpeng of anti-gay rhetoric is also part of a rurgence polarizg inty polics Turkey, as the print taps to a strong natnalist and relig ve to bolster his Islamist-rooted party’s saggg support, which — acrdg to some opn polls — has fallen to s lowt level durg Erdoğan’s 17 years of le.

For LGBTQ activists like Levent Pişk, the recent smear mpaign ps a difficult half- “that feels more like a century, ” spellg the end of a short-lived blossomg of gay inty Turkey that began the 2000s. “The disurse om those power mak spegoats and targets a society that was already prone to homophobia, ” said Pişk, who is also a human rights lawyer. His remarks me after the Internatnal Feratn of Red Cross and Red Crcent Societi (IFRC) nmned the homophobia a sce-leted tweet by one of s vice prints, Kerem Kınık, who also heads Turkey’s Red Crcent.

Ali Erbaş, who leads the state’s Relig Affairs Directorate, preached a televised sermon on the ronavis outbreak April that Islam nmns homosexualy bee “ brgs illns and y.

While polil exprsn of LGBTQ inty was always problematic, homosexualy was largely tolerated — if not openly discsed — Turkey, where has been legal sce the mid-19th century.