Kaos GL [News]

June 5, 2008

Doug Ireland, Gay City News

In the latest in a series of legal attacks on LGBT organizations and publications in Turkey, on May 29 a court in Istanbul, the nation's largest city, ordered the dissolution of Lambda Istanbul. Founded in 1993, the group is Turkey's oldest LGBT organization, and has organized Gay Pride marches in that city every year since 2003.

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June 5, 2008
Tony Grew, Pink News

Turkey must respect the human rights treaty it signed up to and give gay and lesbian citizens their rights to peaceful assembly and freedom of association, a leading EU politician has said

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June 5, 2008

Press release from the Intergroup on Gay and Lesbian Rights of the European Parliament regarding closure of Lambda Istanbul


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June 2, 2008
Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Group Ordered Closed on Procedural Grounds

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