Drag Queen w Turcji - Eyevine

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Drag Queen w Turcji - Eyevine
Drag performers in Turkey. Drag performers in Turkey. Drag performers in Istanbul, Turkey. While homosexuality has been legal since modern Turkey was founded in 1923, life for LGBTQ people has never been easy in a Muslim-majority country notorious for hate crimes against the queer community. Official data is patchy, but a monitoring project by Transgender Europe consistently ranks Turkey as one of the countries with the highest rates of discrimination and murders of trans people in Europe. Today the LGBTQ community looks increasingly vulnerable. Erdo?an's ruling Justice and Development party (AKP) originally supported gay rights when it was formed 19 years ago, and as mayor of Istanbul in the 1990s Erdo?an was popular with the city's marginalised populations for purging the police force of elements that terrorised and raped trans people and sex workers. Gender reassignment surgery was introduced free of charge on Turkey's national health system when the AKP took office in 2002. For a short while, it looked as though Turkey was cultivating an environment of tolerance and respect which made it a beacon for persecuted LGTBQ people in the region - but as the AKP turned more Islamist and conservative, Pride marches and queer-friendly spaces and events began to get shut down. Now, amid economic turmoil, the AKP's conservative voter base is crumbling and the LGBTQ community has emerged as the target of a cheap scapegoating campaign designed to further split a society already highly polarised along cultural, political and religious lines. ? JM / The Guardian / eyevine
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2020-07-25
The Guardian/Eyevine/East News
Eyevine
The Guardian
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1,25MB
35cm x 23cm przy 300dpi
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