TGEU The ProTrans project One-hundred and fifty five hate-motivated incidents Several instances of police violence were registered in 4. In one case, the police incited others to act violent- For the record have been collected in the framework of ProTrans, of Turkey, Serbia and Kyrgyzstan during ProTrans. In the in- ly against the victim by stopping cars passing by and 1. Upon leaving a club with friends at 3 a.m., the victim which 101 constitute criminal acts. cidents, which involved physical and sexual assault and saying “take her and do whatever”. On various occa- was singled out, harassed, chased, kicked and beaten by psychological violence at the hands of the police, the sions, the police refused to make a report of previous a group of five men. The victim says she saw the desire Perpetrators belong to numerous groups, the most com- majority of the victims were trans-women sex workers hate-motivated attacks. (Turkey) to kill in the eyes of the perpetrators. (Serbia) mon being private individuals, public officials and police (in 20 instances). Only in one case in Turkey was the officers and organised hate groups and gangs. The groups victim a trans man: he was arrested at a demonstration 5. A trans sex worker wanted to work on Mirac Kandili, 2. Two trans sex workers working in Topkapi were at- to which the perpetrators in the reported incidents be- by several police officers, who attacked him physically an Islamic holy night. Some people said to her: “How dare tacked with a petrol bomb by unknown men whose fac- long are a result of several factors, including the profile while using transphobic language. you do this job on a holy night?” As a result, she went to es were covered with black veils. The victims took ref- of partner organisations, the trans sub-communities they another street, where she was beaten by three people. uge in a hotel, and they are in good health. (Turkey) reach and the type and nature of violence that is most Her head was heavily injured. The police came, and the prevalent among these segments of the community. victim got in the police car, but the officers did not want For the record to help her because she was a trans woman, and they did It is striking that there are quite a few cases of domestic 1. When the police were called to provide help when not draw up a report of the incident. When she was tak- violence. Seeking help can seem like an insurmountable the members of the radical nationalist Kalys and Kyrk en to the hospital, health personnel refused to treat her task for trans victims of intimate partner/dating/sexu- Choro movements illegally broke into an event organ- and she was humiliated by the staff. (Turkey) al violence, due to both the lack of appropriate services ised by Labrys on the International Day against Homo- and the risk that, were they to report the crime, their phobia and Transphobia in 2015, all participants were 6. Seven trans sex workers were beaten by the police abusers could out them as trans, thus subjecting them taken to the police station by force. The police tried to while working on the street. The police told the wom- to further transphobic abuse. make some participants show them their genitals so en not to work on that street. They used pepper spray that they could identify the transgender people among against them and took them to the police station. Oth- them. (Kyrgyzstan) er police officers asked why the trans women were brought to the station. No official record of the incident 2. In several cases, the police abused their power and was made. (Turkey) arbitrarily detained, blackmailed and sexually assaulted Types of perpetrators (in several cases, multiple perpetrators are involved) trans sex workers. (Kyrgyzstan) Gangs and organised hate groups are the second most 3. A trans-woman sex worker was detained by the police frequent abusers in the documented cases. Attacks by while she was working on the street. She was taken to the organised hate groups occurred in Moldova and Kyr- police station and forced to take an HIV test. In the pro- gyzstan (see country chapters). cess, she was subjected to ill treatment and transphobic language, and she was prohibited from using the female washroom at the police station. (Turkey) + 20 + + 21 +