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Turkey: Another victim in the undeclared war on transgender women
This entry was posted on Wednesday, February 15th, 2012 at 11:20 am
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Via Kocaeli Gazetesi, Mynet Haber and Haber 27 comes the sad news of the murder on Monday afternoon (13 February 2012) of Melda Yuksel in Kocaeli, Turkey.
As I understand it, Melda – a 26-year old transgender woman – met her younger brother Murat at a building site to ask his advice on some construction work she had commissioned. It seems that a conversation after the site meeting somehow escalated into an argument between the two about sexual orientation/gender identity, during which Mr Yuksel pulled out a gun and shot Melda five times. She died of her injuries at the scene of the shooting.
Very sad.