Turkey: Where The Parallels Between Homophobia, Sexism, Transism, and Racism This Week Meet
by: Autumn Sandeen
Sat Mar 14, 2009 at 09:00:00 AM EDT
http://pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=3831EE7213865D6B026308759B963893?diaryId=9907Human Rights Watch Report: We Need a Law for Liberation; Gender, Sexuality, and Human Rights in a Changing TurkeyCertainly something of a concept I can embrace for the western nations like the United States. Yet in Turkey, a nation that straddles the philosophies between the West and the Mideast, we can make at least one sad comparison between the United States' Black Civil Rights movement and the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, and transgender (LGBTT) civil rights movement in Turkey: LGBTT people and civil rights leaders in Turkey experience violence -- and some are murdered -- and police don't appear to care very much.ยน
This past week, a Turkish transgender civil rights activist -- Ebru Soykan -- was killed. From 365Gay's Police accused of ignoring transwoman's pleas for help:
