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Dawn Magazine, Posted: 4/7/2010, 5:28 PM QUICK LOOK: When Turkey's family affairs minister recently described homosexuality as a curable disease, she was roundly criticised for discrimination and flouting human rights... (MORE) |
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Washington Post, Posted: 4/2/2010, 2:13 PM QUICK LOOK: Freedom is relative. But for Hassan, mother hen to a gaggle of gay Iranians fleeing a nation where their sexuality is punishable by death, relatively secular Turkey is... (MORE) |
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Foreign Policy Magazine, Posted: 3/9/2010, 7:53 PM QUICK LOOK: The struggle for gay rights in the United States has been going on now for decades. In other parts of the world, however, the fight is in much earlier stages. Here are... (MORE) |
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Hurriyet Daily News, Posted: 3/8/2010, 7:36 PM QUICK LOOK: Turkish State Minister Aliye Kavaf continues to make controversial comments on morals and values that raise reactions. Following her criticisms on the love scenes in... (MORE) |
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Queer Life, Posted: 3/2/2010, 9:20 AM QUICK LOOK: The European Union has reaffirmed that countries wanting to join must provide genuine protections for their queer citizens. In accepting reports on membership bids by... (MORE) |
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The Local (Germany), Posted: 6/6/2009, 11:20 AM QUICK LOOK: German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier opened the fourth edition Respect Gaymes, an annual sports and cultural event in Berlin’s Jahn Park stadium on Saturday... (MORE) |
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Reuters-Africa, Posted: 9/26/2008, 11:23 PM QUICK LOOK: A popular Turkish transsexual singer who infuriated the country's powerful armed forces by questioning a military campaign against Kurdish separatists told a court on... (MORE) |
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The Independent (U.K.), Posted: 7/19/2008, 11:08 AM QUICK LOOK: In a corner of Istanbul today, the man who might be described as Turkey's gay poster boy will be buried – a victim, his friends believe, of the country's deepening... (MORE) |
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Gay.com, Posted: 6/19/2008, 5:11 AM QUICK LOOK: A popular transgender Turkish singer went on trial yesterday on charges of trying to turn the public against military service. Bulent Ersoy could face more than two years... (MORE) |
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BBC, Posted: 5/24/2008, 4:57 AM QUICK LOOK: A report by Human Rights Watch says gay and transgender people in Turkey are subject to "endemic abuses", and calls on the government to act to protect them. The BBC's... (MORE) |
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Posted: 1/26/2008, 4:33 PM QUICK LOOK: A unique play in an Ankara theater ended with a standing ovation this week as the little-known actors -- transsexuals and gays raising their voice against discrimination -- fought back tears on stage... (MORE) |
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New York Times, Posted: 1/1/2008, 11:05 AM QUICK LOOK: Most of the people filling the dance floor on Saturday at the club SO36 in the Kreuzberg neighborhood were gay, lesbian or bisexual, and of Turkish or Arab background... (MORE) |
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Sabah (Turkey), Posted: 11/23/2007, 8:15 PM QUICK LOOK: The co-chair of the Green Party, Cohn Bendit gave a speech during his visit to the Head Office of Turkish Industrialists and Businessmen Confederation, and said, "You... (MORE) |
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Associated Press (AP), Posted: 7/15/2007, 10:40 AM QUICK LOOK: In the 1980s and 1990s, Turkish police routinely raided gay bars, detained transvestites and banned homosexual conferences and festivals. In May, in a sign of how the... (MORE) |
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Turkish Daily News, Posted: 6/5/2007, 9:11 AM QUICK LOOK: A court in Istanbul paved the way for closing down LAMBDA -- the LGBT Transsexual Women & Men Solidarity Association -- by rejecting a decision by the prosecutor's office, saying that a trial... (MORE) |
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Expatica, Posted: 6/4/2007, 12:37 PM QUICK LOOK: The new Dutch cabinet should take measures to encourage acceptance of homosexuality among Turkish and Moroccan youth. Gay rights organisation COC urged more action from the government on Friday. The... (MORE) |
Middle East Times, Posted: 5/30/2007, 11:16 AM QUICK LOOK: Turkey's first gay-lesbian hotel opens in July at a popular resort on the Mediterranean coast. "There are several gay-friendly hotels in Turkey, but ours is the first to be 100 percent gay and lesbian... (MORE) |
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Israel21c, Posted: 4/15/2007, 8:02 PM QUICK LOOK: Matt Lebow and John Leonard wanted to do something different. Fed up with traditional gay Internet sites that offered only crude and X-rated material, the Israel-based students decided ... (MORE) |
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Posted: 3/9/2007, 3:12 AM QUICK LOOK: A court ordered access to YouTube's Web site blocked Wednesday after a prosecutor recommended the ban because of videos allegedly insulting the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. Paul... (MORE) |
