{"id":114519,"date":"2023-05-30T07:40:44","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T04:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/turkeys-lgbtq-community-dread-future-under-erdogan\/"},"modified":"2023-05-30T07:40:44","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T04:40:44","slug":"turkeys-lgbtq-community-dread-future-under-erdogan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/turkeys-lgbtq-community-dread-future-under-erdogan\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey\u2019s LGBTQ community dread future under Erdogan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114519\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nTurkey\u2019s LGBTQ community fear being exposed to more homophobic hate after conservative President Recep Tayyip Erdogan made them into his favourite target for his bitterly divisive re-election campaign. The Islamic-rooted leader constantly railed against LGBTQ people on the campaign trail, accusing them of threatening traditional family values and calling them \u201cperverse\u201d. He also attacked opposition challenger Kemal Kilicdaroglu for pledging to \u201crespect everyone\u2019s beliefs, lifestyles and identities\u201d, including those of the LGBTQ community.<\/p>\n<p>After extending his two-decade rule until 2028 in Sunday\u2019s historic run-off election, Erdogan used the opportunity to target them again when he greeted supporters in Istanbul. \u201cIs the CHP LGBT? Is the HDP LGBT?\u201d he asked, referring to Kilicdaroglu\u2019s secular party and the main pro-Kurdish group that supported the opposition alliance. \u201cYes!\u201d the crowd roared in reply.<\/p>\n<p>Erdogan continued the pantomime by asking his rapturous supporters whether his ruling AKP party was LGBTQ-friendly. \u201cNo!\u201d was the unanimous rejoinder. Ilker Erdogan, a 20-year-old university student and LGBTQ activist, has known no leader other than Erdogan and AKP-led governments. \u201cFrom the moment I was born, I felt that discrimination, homophobia and hatred in my bones,\u201d he told AFP before Sunday\u2019s vote. \u201cI feel deeply afraid. Feeling so afraid is affecting my psychology terribly. I couldn\u2019t breathe before, and now they will try to strangle my throat,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Ameda Murat Karaguzu, 26, says she has been \u201csubjected to more hate speech and acts of hate than I have experienced in a long time\u201d, from physical threats to verbal insults.The project assistant at an LGBTQ association blamed the government\u2019s virulent rhetoric for the upsurge in hostility because the perpetrators \u201care aware that there will be no (legal) consequences for killing or harming us\u201d. Erdogan\u2019s Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu has for example denounced same-sex relationships as a \u201creligion\u201d imported from the West and claimed they involved marriages between animals and humans.<\/p>\n<p>Documentary filmmaker Tugba Baykal worried that the right-wing majority in parliament would seek to shut down LGBTQ associations and criminalise activists, predicting an exodus of gay people from Turkey. The 39-year-old said she already had plans to leave before the elections and would go to the United States. \u201cIt would be harder for me to make this decision if we were a more hospitable country,\u201d she regretted.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/world\/turkeys-lgbtq-community-dread-future-under-erdogan\/article\">DJ<\/a> <\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/turkeys-lgbtq-community-dread-future-under-erdogan\/\">Turkey\u2019s LGBTQ community dread future under Erdogan<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[393,555,2878,3132,2879],"class_list":["post-114519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-community","tag-csr-news-en","tag-erdogan","tag-lgbtq","tag-turkey"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}