Turkey IDAHO Report 2013

During the month of May 2013 itself, key highlights included a march for LGBT rights in Ankara, in which approximately 500 people participated. The 8th International Anti-Homophobia Meeting, a two day conference, was also organised on the topic of regional peace. The conference organisers aimed to point at ‘links between homophobia/transphobia and sexism, nationalism, racism and militarism’, in order to make ‘connections between various kinds of discrimination’. As well as grass roots activists, scholars, unionists, film directors and politicians from Turkey as well as the US, Poland, the Netherlands and France attended the meeting on May 17 – 18. Activists reported that their events were greeted with significant media coverage locally, nationally and even – to a smaller extent – internationally.