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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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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.

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

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.

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Erdoğan himself pledged to protect gay rights before his Islamist-rooted party me to power 2002 and subsequently troduced some measur agast discrimatn. Turkey’s gay rights movement took shape the 1990s, but gaed energy as Erdoğan expand civil liberti durg negotiatns to jo the European Unn that began 2005.

Turkey’s Print Recep Tayyip Erdoğan pledged to protect gay rights before his Islamist-rooted party me to power 2002 | Am Altan/AFP via Getty Imag.

Spectg an effort to promote gay rights, provcial tn thori this sprg orred prcipals to bar stunts om participatg a mm’s mpaign to draw rabows and place them wdows as a sign of hope durg the ronavis outbreak, the head of a teachers’ unn told lol media.

And this week, emerged that Netflix scrapped productn of a Turkish drama wh a gay character after the state’s televisn watchdog refed a license for the show unls the character was wrten out.