2023 METU Pride March case: Students described torture

The first hearing of the case filed two years later against those detained at the 2023 METU Pride March was held. Students described police torture.

A trans male prisoner was found dead under suspicious circumstances in Sincan Prison

According to the accounts of the lawyers who visited the prisoners, the medical team did not arrive at the scene for a long time. The rope the prisoner was found hanging from had not previously been in the room.

Reason given for the dissolution of the Young LGBTI+ Association: Lesbian Visibility Day posts

Social media posts related to Lesbian Visibility Day were cited as grounds for the decision to dissolve the Young LGBTI+ Association.

İzmir Bar Association: “The dissolution of the Young LGBTI+ Association is a clear violation of freedom of association”

The İzmir Bar Association issued a statement in response to the decision to dissolve the Young LGBTI+ Association. Announcing that it will closely follow the legal process, the Bar Association called on all individuals and institutions to take responsibility for the protection of freedom of association.

13. İzmir Pride Week ban decision was annulled months later!

The Governorate said in its defense that the ban decision was based on CİMER complaints and intelligence reports. The court ruled to annul the decision, stating that “the state must secure peaceful assembly.”

DEM Party MP Halide Türkoğlu: We will not remain silent while LGBTI+ people are targeted

Speaking during the budget talks on the Ministry of Family and Social Services, DEM Party Women’s Assembly Spokesperson Halide Türkoğlu said: “We will not remain silent while you target LGBTI+ people by fueling gender based hate crimes under the banner of the ‘Year of the Family.’”

Closure decision against Young LGBTI+: The justification is “obscenity” based on social media posts

The prosecutor claimed that the association engaged in activities “encouraging and inducing lesbian, gay, bisexual, transvestite or transsexual conduct,” while the court cited “designing trans-themed visual content” as the justification for its closure.

Tülay Hatimoğulları: "A budget that disregards the right to life and freedoms of women, LGBTI+ people, youth, and children cannot be democratic"

Co-Chair of the DEM Party Tülay Hatimoğulları spoke at the Grand National Assembly of Turkey during the debate on the Budget Bill.

Emine Erdoğan targets LGBTI+ people once again, calling it “degendering propaganda”

Erdoğan spoke at the TRT International Children’s Media Summit, held under the title “Children’s Media in the Digital Age: Strengthening the Family, Building Values”

Hate speech from the TRT Director General: “The imposition that promotes LGBT deviance has become hegemonic”

TRT Director General Mehmet Zahid Sobacı targeted LGBTI+ people at the International Children’s Media Summit: “Artificial identities and genders are being manufactured under the umbrella of freedom.”

TMMOB 9th Women’s Assembly: “The threats against our rights and our lives still persist”

The TMMOB 9th Women’s Assembly was held on 6-7 December. The press statement issued at the assembly drew attention to the hate directed at LGBTI+ people.

Observers were not allowed into the trial of İris Mozalar concerning the Feminist Night March

The first hearing in the case filed against trans activist İris Mozalar, one of the 112 people detained during the 23rd Feminist Night March, was held today. The hearing, conducted without observers, was adjourned to 9 June.

LGBTI+ organizations mark December 1 with a new step: The Sexual and Reproductive Health Network has been established

13 LGBTI+ organizations came together for a major joint initiative on World AIDS Day, 1 December. In response to growing pressure and discrimination in health policies, they announced the establishment of the “LGBTI+ Sexual and Reproductive Health Sub-Network.”

QueerFest met with film lovers in 2 countries and 8 cities in 2025!

Turkey’s first queer film festival, Pink Life QueerFest, met its audiences despite all the bans.

Turkey's CHP adopts new party program, pledging to end discrimination based on SOGI

Turkey's main opposition party CHP, vows to end discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in recently adopted party program.