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Drab på LGBT-frontfigur siger meget om Tyrkiet
12. august blev et mishandlet lig fundet i Istanbul. Det viste sig at være den 23-årige transseksuelle LGBT-forkæmper Hande Kader, der var blevet voldtaget og senere brændt. I en kronik i The Guardian beskriver den tyrkiske forfatter Elif Safak, at den slags sager ofte skubbes til side med begrundelsen, at Tyrkiet har alvorligere ting at tage sig af end kvindeundertrykkelse og LGBT-problemer. Hun mener dog ikke, at de to ting kan adskilles, men argumenterer for, at hadforbrydelserne netop er et symptom på den generelle tilstand i Tyrkiet.
TOPSHOT - A LGBT member stands in front of a banner with make up on her face and a writing on her body "I want to live" on August 21, 2016 in Istanbul during a demonstration for the murdering of a transgender activist Hande Kader, a 22-year-old transgender who was mutilated, burnt and murdered in Istanbul on last week. Nearly 200 militants of the transgender cause demonstrate in Istanbul to ask for justice after the murder of the transgender activist Hande Kader. It is the the second murder that horrified the Turkisk LGBT community after the killing, on August 4, 2016, of a Syrian refugee who was found dead with his body mutilated. / AFP PHOTO / OZAN KOSE
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