Worsening Repression in Turkey: The Ongoing Crackdown on the LGBTI+ Community

From the time AKP came to Park had been important to the LGBTI+ movement for power until their first electoral defeat, their policy towards years, and many joined the Gezi protests under the name LGBTI+ rights shifted from neglecting the human rights of of “LGBT Blok.”16 On June 30, 2013, amid the protests, the LGBTI+ people to attacking the fundamental rights of the Istanbul Pride March was held. [...] The social and political legitimacy created Setbacks and Struggles by the Gezi Resistance, the geographical expansion of The LGBTI+ community in Turkey has faced increasing the movement, and the emergence of new organizations attacks since 2015, including event bans, scapegoating elevated the LGBTI+ movement to a new, larger stage upon by public figures, the withdrawal of legal protections, and wh. [...] 7 | February 2024 After the earthquake on February 6, 2023, which struck The main demands of the LGBTI+ community regarding 11 provinces and resulted in the death of some 50,000 the constitution include the addition of the term “sexual people, the constitutional amendment proposal was orientation and gender identity” to Article 10, concerning withdrawn upon the instruction of President Erdoğan.43. [...] However, 11 lawmakers who signed the Anti-LGBTI+ rhetoric was also included in the government’s SPOD’s LGBTI+ Rights Convention, also took their places in newly published “Twelfth Development Plan” that explains the parliament.46 One of the items to be discussed during the development policies of the government for the period the new term of the parliament will be the constitutional from 2024 to 2. [...] While the actual • Refuse to negotiate with the government on the draft of the bill has not yet been revealed to the public, the upcoming constitutional amendment; publicly denounce AKP also seems to be using this opportunity to change the Turkish government’s violations of human rights the constitution to further strengthen the powers of the and democracy; and advocate for equal citizenship for p.