Kaos GL [News]

Press Release, January 29, 2009, Ankara

On January 24, 2009, the Platform of LGBTT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transvestites and Transsexuals) Rights of Turkey issued a detailed report about LGBTT Rights Situation in Turkey during the year of 2008. Below is a short summary of the report.
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January 28, 2009
Hurriyet Newspaper

The Supreme Court of Appeals overruled an Istanbul local court
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January 25, 2009
Bia News Centre - Istanbul

A court of appeal has overturned the decree to close the gay rights organisation Lambdaistanbul. However, the same court warns the assocation not to try and
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January 8, 2009
GlobalPost, Iason Athanasiadis

A gay peasant, a nymphomaniac and a lecherous imam all figure in a bawdy theatrical play about Turkey highlighting contemporary issues such as consumerism, emigration and the proliferation of a confessional talk-show culture.
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January 26, 2009

Below is the Press Declaration regarding the Court's Decision on closure of Lambda Istanbul LGBT Solidarity Association in Istanbul, Turkey.

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January 21, 2009
Amnesty International

The Turkish lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) solidarity organization, Lambda Istanbul, has won its appeal against the closure of the association. The Supreme Court of Appeal
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January 21, 2009
www.pinknews.co.uk

Turkey's leading gay rights group will be allowed to continue to operate after a Supreme Court ruling.
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January 20, 2009
Kaos GL, Ankara, Turkey

May 17 is coming!

We Are Meeting Against Homophobia!

Kaos Gay and Lesbian Cultural Research and Solidarity Association has organized the International Anti-Homophobia Meeting within the week of May 17, in the capital city of Turkey, Ankara, for three years.
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January 19, 2009
KAOS GL, Kemal Ordek

Sunil Pant is an internationally well-known LGBT rights activist. He is the founder of the first and largest association Blue Diamond Society, which struggles for improving the conditions of LGBT people in Nepal, and he is the first MP of Nepal with his open gay identity. Due to his efforts of bettering the conditions of LGBT community both in Nepal and the world, he and his association was given the Felipe de Souza Human Rights Prize in 2007 by International Gay and Lesbian Rights Commission. You will be surprised when you read the attempts and achievements of both Sunil Pant and the Blue Diamond Society in terms of LGBT rights. The first open gay MP of Nepal answered the questions of our writer Kemal Ordek.

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January 19, 2009
KAOS GL, Kemal Ordek

Kerry Eleveld is the political editor of The Advocate, the prize-winner LGBT news magazine, based in the US. She has been covering LGBT issues for years and keeping her longstanding experiences in this field, our writer Kemal Ordek directed questions to her and she answered them for Kaos GL. We talked about the problems of LGBT people in media, political agenda and LGBT issues at hand that have been discussed for several years in the US.

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January 7, 2009
Hurriyet Newspaper
by Kristen Stevens

A demure beauty with big blue eyes, my niece melts hearts wherever she goes, especially here. Nineteen on Monday, she came from the U.S. to stay with us in Istanbul last week. With all the crap she has had to deal with in her life, and there has been much, she believes she is lucky. Her family on all sides has embraced her as gay.

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