21/11/2023 | Writer: Selma Koçak
Halide Türkoğlu, spokesperson for the HEDEP Women’s Assembly, emphasized that the ruling party’s policy of hostility towards LGBTI+ people is an attempt to prevent many sections of society from accessing rights and equality.
Halide Türkoğlu, spokesperson for the Women’s Assembly of the People’s Equality and Democracy Party (HEDEP), was a guest on Kemal Avcı’s program on Artı TV today.
Türkoğlu assessed women’s rights in Turkey and the AKP's policies towards women, and reported on HEDEP’s preparations for the November 25th International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.
Assessing the government’s LGBTI+ policies, Halide Türkoğlu stated that the ruling party’s policy of hostility towards LGBTI+ people is an attempt to prevent many segments of society from accessing rights and equality.
“This is also a part of the policy of hostility. From the very beginning, there has been a government that has carried it out through a policy of polarization. This policy that is being carried out against LGBTI+s regarding their human rights, that is to say fundamental rights, is precisely the polarization of society by the government. They are putting the issue of enmity at the centre stage of politics instead of democracy while conducting this polarization policy. Unfortunately, it is taking this issue through LGBTI+s. In this respect, we consider this issue as a matter of democratic rights from the very beginning. People are fighting for equality, for rights and everyone is an equal citizen in this country. Everybody has to experience equality. So I think this organization and this axis of struggle is important.
This hostile policy of the ruling party should be exposed, it should not be accepted. This is the way all the hate crimes take place. This is how the hate crimes are deepening in the society. And somehow this policy is perceived as a motivation by the society in-between this polarization. Both politics and the spiral of violence in society try to be motivated by LGBTI+ hostility. But what we call the most basic human rights are also suspended for LGBTI+ people. And it is in their person that many sections of society are to be denied access to rights and equality through similar policies.”
Tags: human rights, women
