By Meriç Çağlar, who works as a researcher and consultant on Turkey’s refugee policies, forced migration, and gender.
Yazar: Mertcan Karakuş
Breaking the invisible wall between the LGBTQI+ community and queer refugees
Interview with the Istanbul-based HEVI association working on LGBTI+ refugees living or forced to live in Turkey.
Yeşil Sol Party’s feminist candidate Özgül Saki: We need a political axis which will eliminate the ‘family is sacred’ concept
Lara Özlen spoke with feminist Özgül Saki, the Yeşil Sol Party’s MP candidate from the 2nd district of Istanbul; Translated into English by Mertcan Karakuş.
The opposition’s saddening stance on the LGBTQI+ issue in Turkey
In his first article, Kaos GL activist and Green Left Party PM member Remzi Altunpolat focused on the anti-LGBTIQ+ policies of the AKP government. In his second article, he focuses on the opposition’s record on LGBTIQ+ rights.
LGBTIQ+ as both subject and object of a vital election in Turkey – I
The government’s anti-LGBTI+ policies and the opposition’s lack of policy in the run-up to the elections by Kaos GL activist and Yeşil Sol Party PM member Remzi Altunpolat