Kaos GL [News]

Advocate
May 30, 2008

A Turkish court on Thursday ordered the closure of a gay rights organization because it said the group's name violates public morality, the group said.
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Pink News
May 30, 2008

The President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has today issued a stark reminder to the Turkish government that freedom of expression and freedom of association are enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights, which Turkey has ratified.
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AKI
May 30, 2008

A Turkish gay rights group has promised to fight a court ruling that ordered its closure after prosecutors accused it of breaching morality.

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BBC NEWS
May 30, 2008

A leading Turkish gay rights group will fight a court ruling that ordered it be closed for "violating morality".

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May 30, 2008
Times Online, UK

The only gay rights association in Istanbul has been ordered to close by a Turkish court, after a prosecutor claimed that it broke public morality laws.

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Pink News/ Tony Grew
May 29, 2008

The closing of Lambda would be a devastating blow for the European LGBT emancipation movement

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May 29, 2008

The judge ordered today to shut down Lambda Istanbul one of the Turkey's leading LGBTT organizations. Below is the press statement issued to raise awarness about this ruling.


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UK Gay News
May 24, 2008

A little bit of gay history was made in the Turkish capital of Ankara last Saturday afternoon.

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BBC News, UK
May 23, 2008

A report by Human Rights Watch says gay and transgender people in Turkey are subject to "endemic abuses", and calls on the government to act to protect them. The BBC's Sarah Rainsford met some of the victims.

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PinkNews
May 23, 2008

A leading human rights group has produced a report documenting "long and continuing history of violence and abuse based on sexual orientation and gender identity" in Turkey.

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Voice of America, Dorian Jones
May 22, 2008

U.S.-based Human Rights Watch this week published a damning report on the treatment of gay people in Turkey.
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Queerty, NY
May 22, 2008

Human Rights Watch puts more pressure on Turkey this morning.

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May 22, 2008
Human Rights Watch

EU Should Insist on Reforms to Counter Persisting Inequality and Abuses.

Click here for the 123-page report “We Need a Law for Liberation’: Gender, Sexuality, and Human Rights in a Changing Turkey,” is released today.

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Pink News, Tony Grew
May 15, 2008

Michael Cashman with join authors, journalists and human rights defenders on a march against homophobia and transphobia in Ankara on Saturday.

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UK Gay News
May 14, 2008

March against homophobia to be staged in Ankara
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Turkish Daily News
Friday, May 9, 2008

Turkey's first and only homosexual magazine “Kaos GL,” being produced for 15 years has been published for the 100th time.

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