Kaos GL [News]

Sabah Newspaper
January 26, 2010

A Turkish woman, alleging that her husband is gay, applied to the court for a divorce and received reparations, daily Sabah reported Monday.

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Kaos GL Press Release
January 26, 2010

Prime Minister's Public Officials Ethics Committee drafted a regulation for the use of inspectors in public institutions to investigate ethical issues in public institutions.
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January 21, 2010
Voice of America

For 26-year-old Ahmet Yildiz, the choice to live openly as a gay man in Turkey proved deadly. Prosecutors say his father, charged with allegedly killing his son in what is being dubbed as the first gay honor killing, traveled more than 900 kilometers from his hometown to shoot his son in an old neighborhood of Istanbul. The case has drawn international attention and is putting the spotlight on Turkey's attitude towards homosexuality.
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Press Release
January 15, 2010

In February 2010, a prominent LGBT rights organization in Turkey may be forced to shut down. The Turkish authorities have been publicly opposed to the organization's work on behalf of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals.
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5 Months Left for The 5th Meeting!
International Meeting Against Homophobia, May 1-17, 2010

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December 24, 2009
Bianet News Center, Bawer Cakir

2 eye-witnesses testified in the murder case of Ahmet Yildiz. The victim's father, on trial as a defendant, is still fugitive. The judge did not accept representatives of 2 NGOs to the public hearing. Lawyer S
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December 12, 2009
Bia News Center, Bawer Cakir

The Prosecutor's Office launched an investigation into the contents of the book "The 'L' State of Love" about love stories between lesbians because it allegedly deals with "unnatural relationships". Zeli
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December 1, 2009
IGLHRC

A conversation with Hossein Alizadeh
An interview by Ernesto Pagano

Turkey and the Lebanon are the countries most tolerant of gays; Iran and Saudi Arabia are the most homophobic. The picture painted by Hossein Alizadeh, a young Iranian who is the spokesman for the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHTC) with headquarters in New York, is that of a patchy Middle East, where on the one hand embryonic gay movements appear while on the other sentences against sodomy are ferociously applied.

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November 26, 2009
TruthWinsOut.org

Today

November 25, 2009
New York Times

For Ahmet Yildiz, a stocky and affable 26-year-old, the choice to live openly as a gay man proved deadly. Prosecutors say his own father hunted him down, traveling more than 600 miles from his hometown to shoot his son in an old neighborhood of Istanbul.
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