Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, launched the Year of the Family, by criticising the LGBTQ+ community for supposedly undermining traditional values. The president, who has held office since ...

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Criticism of LGBT is immediately silenced ... Despite its low profile in Turkey, the LGBTQ+ community has emerged as one of the main targets of the government and its supporters in recent years.

“They also lead to LGBT and other movements gaining ground.” “In such an environment, population loss is inevitable,” he added. Turkey’s annual population growth rate dropped from 2.53% ...

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These are the faces creating space for Istanbul’s queer community, as the increasingly hostile Turkish government makes ...

Arsham Parsi is the executive director at the International Railroad for Queer Refugees, an organization that provides guidance, food and shelter to LGBTQ refugees living in Turkey who are ...

The clinic in Turkey agreed to remove 18 liters of fat ... I finally feel loved and accepted in the LGBTQ community. In some ways, it's quite sad because I'm still me — I just look drastically ...

Criticism of LGBT is immediately silenced, just like the legitimate criticisms of Zionism. Anyone who defends nature and the family is subject to heavy oppression.” Despite its low profile in Turkey, ...

Criticism of LGBT is immediately silenced ... Despite its low profile in Turkey, the LGBTQ+ community has emerged as one of the main targets of the government and its supporters in recent years.

ISTANBUL (AP) — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan marked the launch of Turkey’s “Year of the Family” on Monday with an attack on the LGBTQ+ community and the announcement of measures to boost ...