The discrimination faced by the LGBT community has convinced the couple to plan to leave Turkey, he said. During the campaign, Erdogan's Islamic-rooted AK Party accused the opposition alliance ...

In a broadside against what he considers the decadent West, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared that all his ...

ANKARA — Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday he did not “recognize LGBT” and vowed to combat “perverse” trends which he said aimed to destroy the institution of family ...

Erdogan stayed aloof from Turkey’s once-tolerated LGBT+ community ... “We know that Mr Kemal is an LGBT person,” Erdogan said at a 6 May rally. “We are against this.” ...

In 2020, Turkey was ranked by the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association as the second worst place in Europe for LGBTQI+ rights out of 49 countries. Turkey was also ...

In 2020, the head of Turkey’s Religious Affairs Directorate gave an anti-LGBT sermon about the Covid-19 pandemic. For the last two years, university students have been prosecuted for ...

“What will happen is that people will hide their identities, and that is bad enough.” Turkey, a predominantly Muslim society with a secular state, does not criminalize homosexuality and has ...

Turkey, June 25, 2023. (photo credit: DILARA SENKAYA/REUTERS) Turkish police detained at least 50 people on Sunday after Istanbul's LGBT community held its annual Pride march. The government led ...

She admitted, however, that her thoughts will be with members of her own LGBT community back home in Turkey, who hope they will be able to do the same at their own Pride march. Hayriye Kara is in ...

Posters for Emin Alper’s Kurak Günler (2022) (photo Jennifer Hattam/Hyperallergic) Turkey’s Culture Ministry ... media outlets that dubbed it an “LGBT propaganda film” and riled up ...

The LGBT Asylum Project's clients were met with ... staff includes Director of Operations Kenan Arun, who is from Turkey. "Hate crimes and hate murders from trans people are really high in Turkey ...

ANKARA, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday he did not "recognise LGBT" and vowed to combat "perverse" trends which he said aimed to destroy the institution of ...