Kaos GL [News]

November 26, 2009
TruthWinsOut.org

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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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November 24, 2009
Gay Today

The Pink Life LGBTT Solidarity Association in Ankara, Turkey, and the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission have teamed up to demand that Turkey

November 23, 2009
IGLHRC

Siyah Pembe Ucgen Izmir Association is the fourth lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and transsexual group that authorities in the Republic of Turkey have tried to close down by claiming that its charter goes against "public morality" and "Turkish family structure." In every case, these charges have been dismissed or rejected.


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November 23, 2009
World Focus

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) refugees are among the most vulnerable refugee groups in the world today, according to Neil Grungras, the executive director of Organization for Refugee, Asylum & Migration (ORAM).

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November 19, 2009
IGLHRC

In recent months, the harassment of transgender and transsexual persons in Turkey has intensified as police abuse the country's Law of Misdemeanors to legitimize daily fines, extortion, eviction, detention, and police brutality. The law gives security forces tremendous leeway to punish any noise, disobedience, and disturbance, with virtually no oversight in how the law is applied or recourse to those who are penalized.
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November 5, 2009
Pink Paper

Gay rights are a prominent topic in the European Commission's 14 October progress reports on the seven countries that are planning to join the European Union: Croatia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Turkey, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, and Serbia and Kosovo.
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November 11, 2009
BIA News Center

Right defenders from 11 countries went to the streets in a common protest action against court applications of "reduced sentences because of unjust provocation" for women and LGBTT murderers. In Istanbul the demonstration was organized by the Feminist Collective and the LGBTT Rights Platform.
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November 10, 2009
Hurriyet Daily News

Bold protests were expected in Istanbul
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November 4, 2009
Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch with two other organizations, in this intervention argue that trends in pluralistic democracies and in the historical evolution of
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