06/01/2025 | Writer: Kaos GL
Colours of Resistance commemorated Ecem Seçkin and Eylül Cansın on the anniversary of their deaths by hanging banners in Izmir Alsancak, Konak and Halkapınar. Drawing attention to the ongoing attacks on Bornova Street, the organisation also protested the prevention of access to hormones.
Colours of Resistance commemorated Ecem Seçkin, a trans woman who was murdered in Izmir on 5 January 2023 and Eylül Cansın, a trans woman who committed suicide on 5 January 2015. The organisation hung banners ‘Bornova Street belongs to trans people, we will not end with hate’, ‘Ecem Seçkin was murdered on Bornova Street 2 years ago’ and ‘Trans people's access to hormones cannot be prevented’ at different points in Izmir.
‘The guard and police officer surrounding Bornova Street were not present when Ecem was murdered’
The Colours of Resistance, who hung banners in Alsancak, Konak and Halkapınar, stated in a statement on social media that the attacks on Bornova Street, where Ecem Seçkin was also murdered, did not end:
"On the 2nd anniversary of Ecem Seçkin's murder on Bornova Street, we are calling out from Alsancak and Konak. Those who increase violence on Bornova Street, those who condone violence; police, guard, state; you are all Ecem's murderers! The guard and police surrounding Bornova Street were not around when Ecem was murdered.
For 2 years, the attacks on Bornova Street do not end; they continue to increase with the state's hate policies and police violence. We don't want to be killed! We will continue to ask for the accountability of the smallest harm that happens to a single trans person, we will continue to say ‘Trans murders are political!’
‘We do not give up our right to hormones’
The organisation also drew attention to the regulation preventing transgender people from accessing hormones:
"We do not give up our right to hormones! On 5 January, the anniversary of the death of Ecem Seçkin and Eylül Cansın, we speak out against hate policies:
The government, which attacks our lives from every field with pressures, targeting, and impunity for the perpetrators, continues to undermine our already exhausting adaptation processes by usurping our right to hormones as if it were not enough.
On 20 November, the Day of Remembrance of Trans Victims of Hate Crime, we do not accept the restriction on hormones or your hatred towards our existences and we call out from Halkapınar: ‘Trans People's Access to Hormones cannot be Blocked!’
Tags: human rights, women
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