Kadıköy District Governorate banned the Science Aesthetics Culture Art Research Foundation (BEKSAV) Cinema Collective’s Pride movie screening which was planned as part of Pride Month. District Governorate banned the screening on grounds of “public morality”, “maintaining public order” and “prevention of crime”. Audience members who came to watch the movie were detained
We talked about the censorship story of Kaos GL Magazine, one of the most rooted publications of the Turkish LGBTI+ movement, two issues of which were declared obscene in 2000 and 2006, with the Editor-in-Chief of that period, Umut Güner, and the lawyer of the Kaos GL Association, Hayriye Kara.
The private Security Unit of Marmara University attacked the stand of the Women’s Rights Club due to posters containing the term “LGBTIQA+.” Department of Health, Culture, and Sports threatened to shut down the club if the posters deemed as “obscene and not suitable for the family structure” are not removed
It was revealed that the concert of the Bulgarian gay singer Azis, who was supposed to perform at the Balkan Festival to be held in the province of Bursa – Turkey on September 19, 2021, was cancelled after he was targeted by Yeni Akit newspaper
Boğaziçi University Photography Club received approval from the Inter-Clubs Committee to exhibit the “pride” exhibition of Ateş Alpar’s photographs on June 11, but the exhibition was blocked by the rector Melih Bulu. The Bosphorus Resistance account and the artist of the exhibition Ateş Alpar gave information on the subject from his social media accounts
The series “Şimdiki Aklım Olsaydı” will be shot in Spain as a Netflix original “If Only” after being canceled by being censored in Turkey due to a gay character
Attorney Polat Yamaner from the Access to Justice team of SPoD (Association for Social Policies on Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation) reviewed the statements of top public officials and politicians in Turkey about LGBTI+ people from the viewpoint of political accountability and human rights law