April 2021 activity report of Kaos GL

Kaos GL organized 30 activities, 42 coordination meetings with its partners, reached over 1800 people with its meetings. Posts of Kaos GL have reached more than 4,5 million views on Twitter.

Mayor of Bodrum signed the LGBTI+ Friendly Municipality Protocol

Ahmet Aras, Mayor of Muğla-Bodrum, signed the LGBTI+ Friendly Municipality Services Protocol prepared by the SPoD and Young LGBTI+.

LGBTI+ agenda of Turkey: May 2021

Kaos GL’s May 2021 newsletter: IDAHOBIT celebrations, censorship and struggle for equality…

You are invited to the “Social Work with LGBTQI’s: Professional Responsibility” webinar!

The “Social Work with LGBTQI’s: Professional Responsibility” webinar, where Dr. Nick. J. Mulé of York University will make a presentation, is on June 17. Don’t forget to register!

We are shouting to the lubunya* who is feeling hopeless and desperate in a room of a small house: We are with you!

A Pride March was held in Boğaziçi University, “Get used to it, we are here, we are not going anywhere” said hundreds of students.

Transphobic discrimination at the hospital!

Erol K., a surgeon at Taksim Training and Research Hospital, did not treat the trans woman Pelin, saying, "I would not touch you if I knew you were a transvestite, my hands got dirty." Pelin filed a complaint to defend her rights: I don't want privileges, I just want no discrimination!

“State itself is the primary producer of transphobia”

"The psychologists have talked about how to get LGBTI+'s out of the closet, but instead we should discuss how to open up psychologists and psychology to LGBTI+'s."

3rd edition of “Queer Theory: An Introduction” in Turkey

3rd edition of the Turkish translation of "Queer Theory: An Introduction", published in collaboration with Kaos GL and Notabene, is on the shelves.

Legal Gender recognition panel is on June 10th!

ILGA Europe Senior Policy Officer Cianán Russell will speak at the event.

Students shouted from the Çağlayan Courthouse: LGBTI+'s cannot be silenced and rainbows cannot be judged!

BULGBTI+'s statement in Caglayan before the trial of students carrying rainbow flags: You will get used to our presence, you will make your peace with it, because we are here and we are not going anywhere.

Boğaziçi rainbow trial postponed, judicial control ‘partially’ lifted

The Boğaziçi rainbow case has been adjourned to June 28th. The judicial control for students, which mandated daily signatures at a police station, has been lifted, but the ban on leaving the country still in force.

The atrocity of Eryaman-Esat continues at the Courthouse!

The Eryaman-Esat case has been postponed once again. Police blocked the press release outside the courthouse. Police attacked the activists during the attempted press release. Officers tried to grab the trans flag and attacked the press.

Freedom of expression is the locomotive of all production

The conference "LGBTI+'s Freedom of Expression and Censorship" has begun: the censorship of dialogues in films in parallel with lynching campaigns against LGBTI+'se sums up our point

“We are forced to ask the state to stop using hate speech”

"LGBTI+'s Freedom of Expression and Censorship Conference" started with the session on “Freedom of speech and censorship in the media”.

We wanted visibility!

"LGBTI+'s Freedom of Expression and Censorship Conference"continued with its second session where freedom of speech and censorship in publishing were discussed.