EU must insist Turkey "respect LGBT people's basic rights"

[Shana A]

EU must insist Turkey "respect LGBT people's basic rights"

By Staff Writer, PinkNews.co.uk • May 23, 2008 - 12:22

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-7722.html

A leading human rights group has produced a report documenting "long and continuing history of violence and abuse based on sexual orientation and gender identity" in Turkey.

Human Rights Watch conducted more than 70 interviews over three years while compiling their 123-page report, We Need a Law for Liberation: Gender, Sexuality, and Human Rights in a Changing Turkey.