"One Day One Struggle": Online panel to tackle anti-gender movements

Kaos GL, WWHR, & 17 May host the "One Day One Struggle" online panel on Nov 9th, 18:00 (Istanbul). The event tackles anti-gender movements through feminist & LGBTI+ solidarity.

Co-Chair of the DEM Party, Tülay Hatimoğulları, reacted to the 11th Judicial Package: “The duty of the state is not to punish diversity, but to guarantee it”

Speaking at her party’s group meeting, Hatimoğulları said: “The government’s judicial packages bring more pressure, coercion, punishment, surveillance, and domination upon society.”

The budget proposal allocates 21 billion lira to “protection of the family”

The proposal allocates less than 1 billion lira to human rights. The headings “empowerment of women” and “youth” also lag behind the allocation for the family.

DEM Party MP Koçyiğit reacts to judicial package proposing imprisonment for LGBTI+ people: “We absolutely do not accept it”

DEM Party Parliamentary Group Deputy Chair Gülistan Kılıç Koçyiğit strongly criticized the 11th Judicial Package at a press conference in the Turkish Parliament: “We are starting to oppose the proposal even before it has been formalized.”

Turkish anti-LGBTI+ draft is harsher than Russia’s!

MLSA Legal Unit: Proposed package threatens the existence of LGBTI+ individuals.

LGBTI+ people took to the streets in protest of the judicial package

On October 17, LGBTI+ people took to the streets nationwide against the draft 11th Judicial Package, which seeks to imprison LGBTI+ people and raise the minimum age for gender-affirming surgeries to 25, declaring: “This draft should not even reach the commission.”

The race to target LGBTI+ people in the promotion of tabii: “Perverted ideologies”, “a forced degendering”…

In the promotion of the digital platform tabii, Communications Director Burhanettin Duran and TRT Director-General Mehmet Zahid Sobacı repeatedly targeted LGBTI+ people.

Turkish opposition leader blasts 'absurd' anti-LGBTI+ bill: 'What's it to you?'

CHP Chairman Özgür Özel has strongly condemned the government's proposed 11th Judicial Package, which seeks to imprison LGBTI+ individuals for "promoting" their identity and drastically restrict access to gender-affirming healthcare.

Reactions to the judicial package containing anti-LGBTI+ provisions are increasing: “Throw the anti-LGBTI+ bill away!”

Numerous human rights organizations and members of parliament have reacted to the judicial package containing anti-LGBTI+ provisions; calls for solidarity and resistance have intensified.

11th Judicial Package: Prison sentences for LGBTI+’s, “gender reassignment” age raised to 25!

The bill draft obtained by KaosGL.org earlier this year has turned into the draft of the 11th Judicial Package. If the draft passes, it will pave the way for the imprisonment of LGBTI+ people, and the age for “gender reassignment” will be raised to 25.

Yıldız Tar’s trial was held: The audio recordings listed as “evidence” in the indictment have been destroyed

The first hearing in the trial of Yıldız Tar and Halit Elçi, who are being prosecuted as part of the HDK investigation, was held today. Their travel bans were not lifted, and the hearing was postponed to February 23, 2026.

From Kaos GL Association to the UN: The decline in access to hormones in Türkiye is alarming

The association submitted a report on the health needs of trans people in Türkiye to the UN human rights mechanisms.

Family Minister Göktaş once again targets LGBTI+’s

Göktaş spoke at the 1st Ordinary General Assembly of the Family and Youth Movement on Saturday, October 11, targeting LGBTI+ people by referring to “degenderization.”

From Kaos GL Association to the UN: “Türkiye is not complying with its obligations regarding intersex rights”

In a report submitted to the UN Committee Against Torture and the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health, the association highlighted violations against intersex people.

We stand with Yıldız Tar — We will be at Ankara Courthouse on October 13

The first hearing of Kaos GL’s Editor-in-Chief Yıldız Tar, who was held in pre-trial detention for nearly four months in the HDK (Peoples’ Democratic Congress) case, will take place on October 13 at 9:20 a.m. at the Ankara 17th High Criminal Court. Kaos GL has called on everyone to attend the hearing to defend press freedom and LGBTI+ rights.