Turkey’s LGBT community draws hope from Harvey Milk
Turks who identify with the LGBT community face discrimination in every aspect of their lives and have no legal protection at all, but increasing awareness from the public and support mainly from the opposition parties brings hope.
This week, the Turkish Parliamentary Human Rights Research Commission’s Prisons Subcommittee released its report on three prisons in the southern province of Antalya.
The inhumane conditions faced by prisoners which the report reveals are depressing. The report says gay and transsexual inmates live in the same cells, suffer because of their sexual identities and that their ward is the only area without security cameras. The last point leaves them completely unprotected and vulnerable to anything imaginable.
