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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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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