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31 Aralık 2009

Father of the Victim Is Fugitive Murder Suspect

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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18 Aralık 2009

Prosecutor Considers Lesbian Love to be Obscene

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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11 Aralık 2009

From Teheran to Riyadh, This is How We Are Discriminated Against

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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