09/08/2023 | Writer: Selma Koçak
Musician Gökçe’s concert in Sandıklı, Afyon was cancelled by the AKP-led mayor of the district.
Pride Month is over however bans on LGBTI+s are not. Musician Gökçe was the last target of the government’s anti-LGBTI+ policy.
The concert of musician Gökçe, who celebrated the Pride Month by saying “Love is love” on her social media account in previous years, was cancelled in Sandıklı, Afyon.
Sandıklı Justice and Development Party (AKP)-led Mayor Mustafa Çöl, found sharing of the singer by picking through her social media accounts and he got the concert cancelled. Çöl confessed the censorship on his social media accounts as follows:
“To the attention of Sandıklı and our beloved nation;
Based on my personal research, our event scheduled for August 11, 2023 has been cancelled due to the invited singer’s posts containing LGBT support and slander against our president.
As we always say, WE ARE THE CHILDREN OF THIS NATION.
WE HAVE NEVER ACCEPTED AND WE WILL NEVER APPROVE ANYONE who harms our President and our sacred values!
Let alone hosting those, who posts such content on stage in Sandıklı, they shall not even SET FOOT on the borders of our district!
To the attention of our beloved Nation!”
Tags: arts and culture
