Appendix
Turkey
14. K. Ördek (ed.) in Red Umbrella Sexual Health and Human Rights
Association, Sex Workers Speak Up: We Want Freedom!
Ankara: Ayrıntı Yayıncılık, 2014, pp. 37 – 38.
1.
15. A detailed account of this incident by ILGA-Europe can
be found at http://ilga-europe.org/home/news/latest/
ilga_europe_s_statement_on_the_recent_incident_of_
police_violence_against_trans_activists_in_ankara
(last accessed on 15 April 2015).
NGO Submission to UPR by Kaos GL, LGBTI News Turkey and
ILGHRC Human Rights Violations of LGBT Individuals in Turkey
(2015) https://lgbtinewsturkey.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/
upr-submission-on-lgbt-people-in-turkey1.pdf
2. Turkish Criminal Code (Law No. 5237 of September 26,
2004, as last amended by Law No. 6217 of March 31, 2011),
Art. 29. Available: http://www.justice.gov.tr/basiclaws/
Criminal_Code.pdf
3.
4.
LGBTI News Turkey, “Killing a Trans is Reason for Reduced
Sentences”, 6 May 2014, available at: http://lgbtinewsturkey.
com/2014/06/05/killing-a-trans-is-reason-for-reducedsentences/ (accessed 30 July 2015)
LGBTI News Turkey, “What is the Legal Basis of Police Violence
against Trans People?”, 4 November 2013. Available:
http://lgbtinewsturkey.com/2013/11/04/istanbul-lgbttprotest-of-police-violence/
5.
Decision in YY v Turkey (application no. 14793/08)
from 10 March 2015
6.
Balzer, C./LaGata, C. and Hutta, J. S. (2015).Transrespect
versus Transphobia: The Social Experiences of Trans and Gender-diverse People in Colombia, India, the Philippines, Serbia,
Thailand, Tonga, Turkey and Venezuela. Berlin: Flyeralarm.
7. Ibid.
8.
See: http://www.transrespect-transphobia.org/en_US/
tvt-project/tmm-results/idahot-2015.htm
9.
See: http://tgeu.org/joint-statement-by-iglyo-ilgaeurope-icrse-swan-tgeu/
10. The text of the by-law is available in Turkish:
http://www.ttb.org.tr/mevzuat/index.php?option=com_
content&view=article&id=66:genel-kadinlar-ve-genelevler-tabolacaklari-hler-ve-fuhuyden-bulan-zrevhastaliklarla-madele-t&Itemid=31 (last accessed on 30 May 2015)
11. Human Rights Watch, We Need a Law for Liberation: Gender,
Sexuality and Human Rights in a Changing Turkey, 2008, p.
8-9 available here: http://www.hrw.org/reports/2008/turkey0508/turkey0508webwcover.pdf (accessed 30 July 2015)
12. Balzer, C./LaGata, C. and Hutta, J. S., op. cit., p. 70.
13. The Directorates of Security in each city are empowered by the
Commissions on Prostitution under the Governor’s Office of
each city to employ the Law on Misdemeanours to fine trans
women who do sex work. The Law on Misdemeanours does not
have any articles that are relevant to sex work, but the Commissions on Prostitution authorises the police to employ this law
against sex workers.
+ 110 +
16. Civil Society in the Penal System Foundation, Report on the
Prisoners with Special Needs, Istanbul, Turkey, 2015:
https://ozelihtiyaclimahpuslar.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/
c3b6zel-ihtiyac3a7larc4b1-olan-mahpuslar-raporu-2014-15.
pdf (accessed 30 July 2015)
17. Rosida Koyuncu, Voltaçark Hapiste LGBTİ Olmak, June 2015
https://ozelihtiyaclimahpuslar.wordpress.com/category/
english/lgbt/, Human Rights Watch, Transgender Prisoners,
Identity, and Detention: Policy Recommendations, 1 March
2006, available here: http://www.outcast-films.com/films/
cu/transgender_prisoners.pdf
18. X v. Turkey, no. 24626/09, 9 October 2012 , § 61
19. See the currently pending case, GG v Turkey (Application no.
10684/2013), concerning the Turkish authorities’ failure to
provide gender-reassignment treatment deemed medically
necessary and urgent to a prisoner for a period of several years.
20. Letter from M.Y., held in Bafra Prison, dated 26 February 2014,
on file with KAOS GL.
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The anti-discrimination law is available:
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wcms_128034.pdf
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Online version in English is available:
http://www.zakon.co.rs/tekstovi-zakona-na-engleskom-jeziku.
html (Criminal matter - Criminal Code (with added amendments
from 24 December 2012))
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Zulevic, J. (2012). Research on problems of transsexual persons
in spheres of education, work and employment, health care and
state administration. Belgrade: Gayten-LGBT.
4. Ibid.
5.
Article is available:
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