https://m.bianet.org/english/lgbti/...-s-to-death-distributed-in-turkey-s-eskisehir
LGBTI+ rights activists and lawyers in Eskişehir, central Turkey, on Tuesday (May 17) filed a criminal complaint regarding the anonymous leaflets calling for killing LGBTI+s with Islamic references.
Reading out a statement in front of the Eskişehir Courthouse, LGBTI+ activist Matti Solak said, “We know that these leaflets without a signature are distributed by the reactionary, jihadist gangs.”
They recalled the statements targeting the LGBTI+s by senior government officials, including the president, the interior minister, and the president of religious affairs, saying, “they are criminalizing our existence.”
“None of us is safe in Eskişehir, the city picked the eighth safest city of Europe, which Governor Erol Ayyıldız, who posed with jihadists gangs, brags about,” Solak remarked, referring to a recent visit by religious community leaders to the governor.
“The perpetrators of the slightest hate attack on LGBTI+s living on the streets of this city are evident. It is the state that turns a blind eye to these attacks….
The leaflet entitled “Explanation of the haram of sodomy with verses [of the Quran] and the hadith” includes quotes from several early Islamic scholars that LGBTI+s should be killed and how it should be done, daily Evrensel reported last week. Stoning to death and burning are the methods suggested by various scholars.
The leaflets were distributed in Odunpazarı, a central district of the city, coinciding with the governor’s banning of a music festival in a decision welcomed by the religious communities in the city, which described the festival as “immoral.”…
LGBTI+ rights activists and lawyers in Eskişehir, central Turkey, on Tuesday (May 17) filed a criminal complaint regarding the anonymous leaflets calling for killing LGBTI+s with Islamic references.
Reading out a statement in front of the Eskişehir Courthouse, LGBTI+ activist Matti Solak said, “We know that these leaflets without a signature are distributed by the reactionary, jihadist gangs.”
They recalled the statements targeting the LGBTI+s by senior government officials, including the president, the interior minister, and the president of religious affairs, saying, “they are criminalizing our existence.”
“None of us is safe in Eskişehir, the city picked the eighth safest city of Europe, which Governor Erol Ayyıldız, who posed with jihadists gangs, brags about,” Solak remarked, referring to a recent visit by religious community leaders to the governor.
“The perpetrators of the slightest hate attack on LGBTI+s living on the streets of this city are evident. It is the state that turns a blind eye to these attacks….
The leaflet entitled “Explanation of the haram of sodomy with verses [of the Quran] and the hadith” includes quotes from several early Islamic scholars that LGBTI+s should be killed and how it should be done, daily Evrensel reported last week. Stoning to death and burning are the methods suggested by various scholars.
The leaflets were distributed in Odunpazarı, a central district of the city, coinciding with the governor’s banning of a music festival in a decision welcomed by the religious communities in the city, which described the festival as “immoral.”…
