LGBTQ+ news, rights, politics and culture from Turkey.
Explore reporting from this country and its place in the wider world.
Turkey faces a critical choice: continue down a path of anti-LGBTQ policies or embrace a more inclusive future. 🇹🇷🏳️🌈#TurkeyElection #LGBTQRights
YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — On the outskirts of Yogyakarta, an Indonesian city that’s home to many universities, is a small boarding school with a mission that seems out of place in a nation with more Muslim citizens t…
ISTANBUL (AP) — An anti-LGBTQ group marched Sunday in Istanbul, demanding that LGBTQ associations be shuttered and their activities banned, in the largest demonstration of its kind in Turkey. Several thousand people joi…
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish police used teargas and pepper spray to halt an LGBTQ+ Pride march in the capital Ankara on Tuesday, detaining at least 36 people after authorities banned such marches in cities across the cou…
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish police blocked hundreds of people from gathering for Istanbul's annual Pride parade on Sunday and detained dozens after local authorities banned the march from going ahead again this year. T…
BERLIN (Reuters) - Voting at 16, a dramatic liberalisation of citizenship law and self-identification for transgender people are among the sweeping cultural reforms Germany’s new coalition parties promise in a programme…
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A Turkish court on Friday acquitted all 19 defendants charged over their participation in an LGBT+ Pride march on a university campus, saying their actions did not constitute a crime. Most of the 18…
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Formula One world champions Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel have spoken out against the Hungarian government’s planned LGBT law referendum. Hungary’s government wants a national referendum t…
ANKARA, July 6 (Reuters) - Cayan Hakiki trimmed their finger nails and scrubbed off the polish last week in order to take Turkish university entrance exams without being hassled, as advocacy groups say LGBT+ people face…
