04/05/2023 | Writer: Selma Koçak

“No one will be oppressed due to their language, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, being woman or young, political opinion in a democratic republic.”

Green Left Party Co-Spokesperson Akın: We have solution suggestions for eliminating the sexual-orientation-based discrimination Kaos GL - News Portal for LGBTI+

İbrahim Akın, Green Left Party Co-Spokesperson and parliamentary candidate in İzmir 2nd electoral district, responded Artı Gerçek reporter Esra Çiftçi’s questions.

Stating that Green Left Party has political solution suggestions Akın remarked that they gave political room for all sections:

“Green Left Party has comprehensive political solution suggestions for exploitation of labor and nature, ecological destruction, identity and recognition justice, economical justice, gender identity and sexual orientation-based discrimination. Our party gives political room for all sections who were victimized by the government and in a wider perspective by the exploitation system.”

Referring to Green Left Party’s “third way” politics and its aim for a democratic republic, Akın listed their goals as follows:

“No one will be oppressed due to their language, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, being woman or young, political opinion in this democratic republic. In this republic, it will be admitted that human is a part of nature not its sovereign. The state will not be the sovereign of society in such a republic. A social structure, which looms over horizontal social organizations rather than empty slogans such as the serving state, will be established.”

Click to read the whole text of the interview in Turkish.

Green Left Party Election Manifesto

Green Left Party promised to struggle against hate murders and to struggle for eliminating inequality and discrimination against LGBTI+s in its election manifesto. Some promises related to equality of LGBTI+s took place with the scope of various parts of the manifesto. Some of them regarding LGBTI+ rights are as follows:

*We will ensure that necessary health services and expenditures will be publicly funded.

*We are ready to carry our contract, the İstanbul Convention, into effect; against sexist policies of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).

*We will provide a structural pluralism in the parliament. We will make it a parliament of women, labors, people, youth, LGBTI+s, people living with disabilities, children, cultures, beliefs, and all oppressed ones.

*We will eliminate all kind of violation of rights, inequality and discrimination, particularly hate murders, against LGBTI+s in social, cultural and political spheres.

*We will take necessary measures in order to eliminate discrimination against people due to their mother language, identity and culture, and against women, LGBTI+s, and migrant and refugee women. 

LGBTI+ rights took place in the manifesto under separate headings in the election manifesto of the Women’s Assembly. Some of the remarkable headings from the declaration are as follows:

*22 years of “one-man regime” passed into history as the period with the highest number of femicide. He granted criminal discounts to women murderers.

*The parliament will be the parliament of women, laborers, youth, LGBTI+s, people living with disabilities, children, cultures, beliefs, and all oppressed ones with our party.

*We are coming to establish a Ministry of Women, where women and women organizations directly develop solutions to all problems related to women!

*Courtrooms have become places that expose women to violence once again instead of judging the perpetrators and male murderers. Men, who slaughter women, are rewarded with unjust provocation and discretionary mitigation.

*We are coming to defend an ecology-based society and build the Democratic Republic with this principle!

*We will carry the İstanbul Convention, our guarantee, into effect and ensure its effective implementation with Law no. 6284. We will supervise it together with women's organizations.

* We will take necessary measures to eliminate discrimination against people due to their mother language, identity and culture, and against women, LGBTI+s, and migrant and refugee women, in their working places.

*We will amend the laws which encourage hate crimes and lead impunity and we will take necessary legal measures to protect women who are exposed to violence.

*We will end violation of fundamental rights such as torture, isolation, suspension and revocation of conditional release, banned prison visits, strip search and exile.

*We will eliminate all kind of violation of rights, inequality and discrimination, particularly hate murders, against LGBTI+s in social, cultural and political spheres.

*We will take necessary steps to terminate the discriminatory, marginalizing, polarizing and antagonizing language in the media via violent TV series, movies and programs.

*We will make regulations within the scope of Penal Code of Turkey in order to prevent hate crimes based on nationality, religion, language, belief, atheism, sexual orientation, gender identity and immigration.

*We, that is to say women, bear a major brunt of all disasters experienced. While women, people living with disabilities, refugees and LGBTI+s are exposed to discrimination and violence, protective mechanisms of the state don’t work.

*We will ensure that necessary health services and expenditures regarding the gender identities will be publicly funded.


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