London, UK. 22nd November 2017. Protesters met at the Turkish Embassy to read a statement in solidarity with Turkish LGBTI+ people after Turkey last Sunday imposed an indefinite ban on all LGBTI+ cultural events in its capital, Ankara. They criticise the ban which they call illegal, homophobic and transphobic and which they say risks criminalising LGBTI existence and endangering public safety. Homosexuality has been legal in Turkey since the modern Turkish Republic came into existence in 1923, and in the last half of the century before that under the Ottoman Empire, and they say the ban is bas
London, UK. 22nd November 2017. Protesters met at the Turkish Embassy to read a statement in solidarity with Turkish LGBTI+ people after Turkey last Sunday imposed an indefinite ban on all LGBTI+ cultural events in its capital, Ankara. They criticise the ban which they call illegal, homophobic and transphobic and which they say risks criminalising LGBTI existence and endangering public safety. Homosexuality has been legal in Turkey since the modern Turkish Republic came into existence in 1923, and in the last half of the century before that under the Ottoman Empire, and they say the ban is based on an extremist Islamic morality and violates the Turkish constitution.
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