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Monitoring Pride in Turkey
A month after the Turkish elections, for which the winner,Recep Tayyip Erdoğan scapegoated LGBTI people, activists and allies have been rallying at Pride marches across the region. In this blog, we introduce an up-to-date account of the latest events, as reported by LGBTI activists on the earth in Turkey.
LGBTI activists in Turkey are determined to stand up for human rights. The government, led by President Erdoğan, has been intensifying its systematic attacks on LGBTI individuals since , when Istanbul Pride march was banned for the first period. A month after the re-election ofErdoğan on a ticket that instrumentalised LGBTI people as an enemy, it is Pride season once more in Turkey.
Hate speech, prohibitions, and systematic attacks by Turkish authorities on Pride events have been ongoing ever since that first ban. In , 19 activists were charged with unlawful assembly for participating in a peaceful Pride March at METU University. After a trial that was delayed several times, the METU 19 were eventually acquitted in
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LGBTQI+ people in Turkey are not backing down despite threats, targeting and scaremongering by political Islamist and fascist politicians and the media. The organizing committees announced: The Trans Self-acceptance March will take place on June 18, and the LGBTQI+ Pride Pride will take place on June 25 in Istanbul.
In honor of this enthusiastic stubbornness, we want to take you to a journey through the history of the Istanbul Parade March. This is a chronology of the LGBTQI+ Pride marches in Istanbul, and the state authorities&#; lawless efforts to disallow them.
July 2,
The first attempt to organize the Pride March in Turkey was made in The Istanbul Governorate banned the march planned to be held in Taksim on the grounds that it was &#;contrary to our customs and traditions and the values of our society.&#; On the afternoon of the march, citizens &#;suspected of being homosexual&#; were detained on İstiklal Street.
September
In , steps were taken once again for the Pride Protest, which was intended to be organized as &#;Gay and Lesbian Cultural Events&#;, but the Istanbul Governorate banned
"We won't give up, we are not afraid"
The İstanbul LGBTI+ Pride Week Committee issued a declaration on social media after the prohibit decision. The committee stated that the decision was unlawful and said:
"Today, with the start of İstanbul 30th LGBTI+ Pride Week, police inspected the venues where the events would take place, under the guise of "general control".
"The law enforcement officers tried to insert pressure on the venues by asking for documents such as tax plates and signboards to the venues where the event would take place. Despite all the pressure, we met at our event venues today."
"However, when the state and statute enforcement forces realized that the week's activities could not be prevented under the pretext of control, the Beyoğlu and Kadıköy District Governorate banned our activities for 1 week."
"This decision is illegal and we would like to inform you that we will apply all our rights and make the necessary objections. We would like to thank our entire network of lawyers and venues that have supported us. We won't donate up, we are not afraid! We will continue our Thus did Mine Yanat recall their initial attempt to arrange the Istanbul Celebration march in This was the first trial sprint of a pride pride by a group that had been meeting in homes, pubs and coffee shops, brewing up the idea of coming out onto the streets and into the public eye. They began with a news conference in a shopping arcade on İstiklal Highway and a series of events titled "Sexual Freedom." The purpose of this press conference was to invite all types of individuals to the pride. As one of the organizers of the first Pride, Yanat recounts, "Preparing for the march was so much fun, and we were making plans with tremendous excitement." Everyone seemed satisfied; the force conference proceeded without a hitch. However, the media coverage that followed the press conference bore petty resemblance to the reality. Once again, there is an enormous gap between LGBTI+ experiences and media representation. Before the parade, Mine received phone calls at her apartment. Cops warned her mother, "You'd leading keep A Step-by-Step Account of the Istanbul Pride: A Rebellion’ Brief History