30/04/2009 | Writer: KAOS GL

April 29, 2009

IGLHRC has written a letter to the Turkish government supporting a call from Turkish groups for an investigation into a series of murders of gay men and transgender people, and for proactive legislative and policy measures to protect LGBT individuals from violence and discrimination, including discrimination concerning the right to freedom of association and expression. This was recently illustrated by the legal action taken to shutdown the organization Lambda Istanbul.

The case against Lambda Istanbul is to re-open on April 30, 2009 in the local court in Istanbul, whose initial decision on May 29, 2008 to close down the organization was overturned by the appeal court on November 25, 2008.

Letter by IGLHRC to:

His Excellency, Abdullah Gul, the President of the Republic of Turkey
His Excellency Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Prime Minister
His Excellency Koksal Toptan, the Speaker of the Grand National Assembly
His Excellency Mehmet Ali Sahin, Minister of Justice
His Excellency Ali Babacan, Minister of Foreign Affairs
Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Republic of Turkey



April 29, 2009

Your excellencies,

On behalf of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC), I am writing to you as honorable representatives of the executive and legislative branches of the Government of Turkey to support the call by Turkish organizations for the protection of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals
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