Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) strongly condemns Turkey’s state-led discriminatory, oppressive attacks on feminist and LGBTQ organisations, media platforms, student groups, and rights defenders and activists within the country.
Since mid-September, access to the websites and social media accounts of a dozen organizations have been blocked by court order, while over 60 members and activists have been detained, their offices and homes raided, mobile phones, laptops and other digital devices seized, and judicial proceedings launched against them.
These actions threaten the very existence of the LGBTQ organizations targeted, limiting their ability to carry out legitimate human rights work, deterring participation and support, and chilling the free speech rights of not just these groups, but any organization that even reports on LGBTQ oppression.
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who heads an Islamo-conservative government, has described the LGBTQ community as a "deviant movement of perverts". Also Turkish courts have jailed more LGBTQ activists and supporters.
Türkiye has banned Pride marches in İstanbul since 2015, citing security and public order concerns. Rights groups say restrictions on LGBTQ events and organizations have expanded in recent years, while authorities repeatedly described LGBTQ rights as incompatible with traditional family values.
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