In Turkey, the state has launched a sweeping campaign against its LGBTQ+ population, clothing repression in the language of family protection. What officials frame as a defense of social cohesion, human rights organizations document as the criminalization of identity and the suppression of political voice. This is not a quiet administrative shift but a visible, deliberate exercise of state power — one that asks the world to decide which story it believes, and whether belief alone is enough to compel action.
Turkey Launches Sweeping Crackdown on LGBTQ Community
LGBTQ+ individuals face arrest, criminalization, and suppression of their rights and political activism.