Kaos GL [News]

July 2, 2009
Bianet News

Stuart Milk: "If my uncle Harvey Milk was still alive he would have attended Pride Week in Istanbul."
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June 26, 2009
Bianet News, Aran Arslan

MPs Tuncel, Birdal and Sevigen say that parliament is uninformed about gay rights.
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June 26, 2009
Eurasianet, Nicholas Birch

Turkey’s football authorities are at the center of a developing scandal, in which the dropping of a referee is turning into a civil rights test case. The referee at the center of the case, Halil Ibrahim Dincdag, maintains he was let go because of his homosexuality, and he is challenging the Turkish Football Federation’s decision in a local court.
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June 25, 2009
Towleroad.com

Turkey's football federation is "backpedaling" after firing referee Halil Ibrahim Dincdag because he is gay and outing him to the press following a surge of public support in his favor. The surge was in response to the fact that instead of running and hiding, Dincdag went on a popular sports program to discuss his sexuality.
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June 25, 2009
PinkNews.co.uk

A football referee in Turkey has claimed he was dismissed by the game's governing body for being gay.
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June 25, 2009
Irish Times, Nicholas Birch

A Referee dismissed and outed by Turkey’s Football Federation has become an unwitting figurehead of the country’s gay rights movement after he took his case to the courts and media.

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June 24, 2009
ANSA

Eleven have been killed in 'hate crimes' against homosexuals in the last six months in Turkey, and so the seventeenth LGBTT (Lesbians, Gay, Bi-Sexuals, Transsexuals and Transgender) Pride Week has kicked off in Istanbul in a climate of sadness and rage.
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June 24, 2009
Kaos GL

LGBTT Rights Platform, Turkey issued a letter to the President of Lithuania to veto the proposed new law which was approved by the Seimas (Parliament). The law would ban “propaganda for homosexuality and bisexuality” as one of the “detrimental effectors” on children.
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June 24, 2009

Below is the interview Kaos GL conducted with Vytautas Valentinavičius who is the chairman of Tolerant Youth Association regarding Anti-Gay Law that was approved by by the Seimas (Parliament)on the first week of June.

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June 23, 2009
New York Times, Susanne Fowler

It’s Gay Pride Week, a festival organized by Lambda Istanbul that features dance parties, panel discussions and special screenings, all culminating, on Sunday, June 28, in a parade down the lively pedestrian artery Istiklal Caddesi in the heart of the entertainment and shopping district called Beyoglu.

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