gay Kurdistan Turkey

Contents:

• KURDISH, GAY AND PROUD DIYARBAKIR
• FROM DIYARBAKIR WH LOVE: KURDISH, GAY AND PROUD
• TURKISH GAYS FACE GRADG TTS TO AVOID ARMY
• IRAN CHARG FAMO KURDISH SGER MOHSEN LORTANI WH BEG GAY, FAC EXECUTN
• HOW TO SAY GAY KURDISH (KURMANJI)
• KURDISH GAYS LIVE LIFE THE SHADOWS IRANIAN KURDISTAN
• TURKISH GAYS FACE GRADG TTS TO AVOID ARMY
• IRAN CHARG FAMO KURDISH SGER MOHSEN LORTANI WH BEG GAY, FAC EXECUTN

KURDISH, GAY AND PROUD DIYARBAKIR

On September 4, members of the Kurdistan Regnal Government Iraq proposed an od bill to Parliament that, if passed, would punish any dividual or group who advot for the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people. Acrdg to the “Bill on the Prohibn of Promotg Homosexualy, ” anyone who advot for LGBT rights or “promot homosexualy” would face imprisonment up to one year, and a fe of up to five ln dars (US$3, 430). The bill would also spend, for up to one month, the licens of media pani and civil society anizatns that “promote homosexualy.

Kurds rarely make onto the ternatnal media, and that’s even more so for Kurdish lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people, yet they do exist and have many stori to tell. So Gay Middle East traveled to the cy of Diyarbakir Eastern Turkey (or North Kurdistan), the center of the Kurdish culture the regn. From: Gay Middle East.

FROM DIYARBAKIR WH LOVE: KURDISH, GAY AND PROUD

(photo right: gay flag displayed Diyarbakir for Newroz New Year ftival 2008; photo cred–). There are no bars or f that are specifilly aimed at gay or trans people.

Privately fundg an office space is problematic bee most openly gay, bi and trans people are forced to limed employment optns such as sex work, although some have managed to n their own small bs.

The film tells the (real) story of Ahmet Yildiz, a young Kurdish gay man who left Diyarbakir to Istanbul to live his life hontly and openly only to be murred by his father for ‘shamg’ the fay. My father would kill me if he found out that I’m gay, he’s a very relig man who has lived Sdi Arabia for many years. Iran has alleged that a proment sger is gay and unr the Islamic Republic’s anti-homosexual laws he uld face the ath penalty.BBC journalist Ali Hamedani tweeted on Sunday that “A famo Iranian sger om the Kurdish provce of Kermanshah has been ‘acced’ of beg a homosexual and uld face executn.

TURKISH GAYS FACE GRADG TTS TO AVOID ARMY

Iran execut gay men.” A famo Iranian sger om the Kurdish provce of #Kermanshah has been “acced” of beg a #homosexual and uld face executn.

IRAN CHARG FAMO KURDISH SGER MOHSEN LORTANI WH BEG GAY, FAC EXECUTN

Iran execut gay men. /Zh08ecj31N— Ali Hamedani (@BBCHamedani) October 6, 2019  Volker Beck, a German Green Party polician and LGBTQ activist , told The Jesalem Post that "It is a perversn of unjt stat like Iran and Sdi Arabia that alleged or actual homosexualy is prented as an accatn that n st you your life.

HOW TO SAY GAY KURDISH (KURMANJI)

It is time for the ternatnal muny to outlaw stat punishg homosexuals."The Kurdistan Human Rights Network tweeted that “Mohsen Lortani, a Kurdish sger om Kermanshah, has been charged wh ‘rptn on earth’ a public plat. /RuLRhIhfRh— Iran News Wire (@IranNW) October 2, 2019  The Jesalem Post first reported on the Iranian regime’s public hangg of a homosexual January based on the untry’s anti-gay law.

Iran’s radil sharia law system prcrib the ath penalty for gay sex.Acrdg to a 2008 Brish WikiLeaks dispatch, Iran’s mullah regime has executed “between 4,000 and 6,000 gays and lbians” sce the Islamic Revolutn 1979.In 2016, The Jesalem Post reported that Iran’s regime had executed a gay adolcent that year – the first nfirmed executn of someone nvicted as a juvenile the Islamic Republic.Hassan Afshar, 19, was hanged Arak Prison Iran’s Markazi Provce on July 18, 2016, after he was nvicted of “forced male-to-male anal terurse” early 2015.In 2011, Iran’s regime executed three Iranian men after beg found guilty of charg related to homosexualy. Kurds rarely make onto the ternatnal media – and that’s even more so for Kurdish lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people, yet they do exist have many stori to tell. “When the news started spreadg about emos, the threats and vlence agast gays creased, ” he said.

KURDISH GAYS LIVE LIFE THE SHADOWS IRANIAN KURDISTAN

People perceived to be gay, lbian, transgenr, or effemate are particularly vulnerable. At almost the exact same time, I found out that my dad, who I was very, very close to, was gay.

TURKISH GAYS FACE GRADG TTS TO AVOID ARMY

A 22-year-old gay man Baghdad told the ternatnal rights groups that anonymo llers ma ath threats on his phone on March 11. Ten years ago, I rerd a StoryCorps terview wh my dad who was a psychiatrist, and beme a well-known gay activist.

Some people may not realize this, but you n still get the ath penalty some untri for beg gay. He told me that one night 1969, a group of young black and Lato drag queens fought back agast the police at a gay bar Manhattan lled the Stonewall Inn, and how this sparked the morn gay rights movement. (Beit) - The ernment of Iraq should immediately vtigate and brg to jtice those rponsible for a targeted mpaign of timidatn and vlence agast Iraqi youth seen as belongg to the non-nformist “emo” subculture, Human Rights Watch, Amnty Internatnal, and the Internatnal Gay and Lbian Human Rights Commissn said today.

IRAN CHARG FAMO KURDISH SGER MOHSEN LORTANI WH BEG GAY, FAC EXECUTN

People perceived to be gay, lbian, transgenr, and effemate men told the rights groups that they feel particularly vulnerable. WorldGay men Turkey seekg exemptn om the untry's mandatory ary service mt prove their homosexualy, the BBC reports, even though many army physicians realize 's medilly impossible to terme sexual orientatn. A BBC report says gay Turks wishg to avoid ary service mt prove their homosexualy, often by submtg explic photos or answerg qutnnair om a health panel.

(Associated Prs)Gay men Turkey seekg exemptn om the untry's mandatory ary service mt prove their homosexualy, the BBC reports, even though many army physicians realize 's medilly impossible to terme sexual rultg procs to obta a so-lled "pk certifite" allowg gays to dodge nscriptn — and potentially dangero ployments to bat Kurdish separatists — is often huiatg, the Brish public broadster says a documentary airg Tuday. 'They asked me if I liked football, whether I wore women's cloth or ed women's perfume'—Ahmet, gay nscript TurkeyIt's mon for gay men to subm explic photographs, unrgo personaly tts and answer qutnnair about their sexual preferenc. Lackg any valid "diagnostic tools, " a physician told the BBC World Service, potential gay drafte mt prepare whatever evince they n to nvce a ary health panel of their homosexualy, sometim emed as a "psychosexual disorr.

""They asked me if I liked football, whether I wore women's cloth or ed women's perfume, " said one gay nscript his man, g the name Ahmet to protect his te inty, said he refed requts to show a health panel pictur of himself drsed as a woman. '' Gay-rights activists participate the 2007 Gay Pri Para Istanbul, Turkey.

(Murad Sezer/Associated Prs)One former army psychiatrist said doctors feel prsure om ary manrs to diagnose homosexualy, "even though there really are no diagnostic tools to terme sexual orientatn. "''It is medilly impossible, and not at all ethil, " he are no laws explicly banng homosexualy Turkey and thoands marched the 2011 gay pri para Istanbul. Still, homosexualy is not wily tolerated and gays n still face discrimatn by employers and are nsired unf for ary service as they n e "disciplary problems" and would require separate lodggs and washrooms, a retired manr, Armagan Kuloglu, reasoned.

But homosexuals n serve as long as they keep their sexual orientatns secret, he said, drawg parallels to the U.

Homosexuals have been permted to serve openly the Canadian ary sce 1992. Although homosexualy is not wily tolerated  Turkey due to social stigma, the possibily that straight men might feign beg gay to avoid ary service is a ncern for the army, acrdg to the BBC report. TEHRAN, — Iran has alleged that a proment Kurdish sger is gay and unr the Islamic Republic’s anti-homosexual laws he uld face the ath penalty.