Annual LGBTI Enlargement Review Published
Posted: 22 February 2021
ILGA-Europe alongside ERA, have published their documentation of developments in each EU accession country during 2020.
Turkey
Turkish government steps up its attacks on LGBTI+ citizens
Posted: 5 February 2021
ILGA-Europe are alarmed to observe that in the past week the Turkish government has stepped up its systematic attacks on and defamation of LGBTI+ people.
Meet these LGBTI activists facing trial for their peaceful defence of human rights
In the past months, LGBTI people have been criminally persecuted for their activism in different parts of Europe and Central Asia. In today’s blog, we bring you three astonishing cases of brave LGBTI activists who could face prison time because they peacefully stood up for human rights.
Turkish court postpones trial of 19 Pride attendees, infringing their right to fair judicial process
Posted: 10 December 2020
Today in Turkey, at a hearing against 19 human rights defenders facing charges for “participating in an unlawful assembly” and “failing to disperse despite being warned”, the courts have decided to postpone the trial until 30 April 2021. The accused, 18 students and one academic, were arrested at a peaceful LGBTI Pride march at Turkey’s Middle East Technical University (METU) on 10 May 2019. If found guilty, they could face up to three years in prison.
Turkey: 19 LGBTI Pride marchers must be acquitted in forthcoming trial
Posted: 7 December 2020
Turkey must uphold its domestic and international commitments, and dismiss all charges against 19 human rights defenders, prosecuted for their participation in a peaceful Pride march at Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara in May 2019, says Europe’s largest LGBTI rights umbrella organisation, ILGA-Europe.
Joint statement: The only just outcome is the acquittal of the METU Pride human rights defenders
Posted: 7 December 2020
The only just outcome is their wholesale acquittal at their next hearing on 10 December.
Turkey’s shocking Pride March trial: The story so far
18 students and one academic face up to three years imprisonment in Turkey, should a judgement be made against them on December 10. The charges? Participating in a Pride march. Here’s the story so far, and how you can stand up for the METU 19.
Joint Statement: End hate speech and targeted attacks against LGBTI people in Turkey
Posted: 8 May 2020
We call on Turkey to respect, guarantee, protect and fulfil the fundamental rights of the LGBTI community without discrimination as enshrined by its Constitution and equality article therein (article 10), and ratified by human rights treaty bodies.
Turkey: Charges against 19 LGBTI+ rights defenders must be dropped
Posted: 7 November 2019
Civil Rights Defenders, International Federation for Human Rights, Front Line Defenders, and ILGA-Europe call upon Turkish authorities to drop all charges against 19 LGBTI+ rights defenders.
Why are bisexual asylum seekers almost completely invisible?
A system that doesn’t recognise diverse sexualities, along with biphobia in LGBT communities and beyond creates a unique and distressing situation for bisexual asylum seekers, says Iranian immigrant in the UK, Zeynab Peyghambarzadeh.
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