SERbIA Gayten LGBT recorded 4 cases of assault and psychological violence in 2016. 2 of the crimes were committed by private individuals, one by the parents of the victim/survivor, and one by a medical professional. A trans woman suffered verbal and physical assault by her parents who said that she was not a “real man.” They physically assaulted her when she came home from a night out. TURKEy From the 520 incidents committed against trans persons and recorded by Red Umbrella Sexual Health and Human Rights Association, 86 have been processed and included in the submission to ODIHR. These hate crime cases took place in Adana, Afyon, Ankara, Antalya, Aydin, Bakırköy, Bursa, Çorlu, Elazığ, Eskişehir, Istanbul, İzmir, Mersin, Muğla, and Samsun. In 2016, 5 murders of trans sex workers were reported from Bakırköy, Çorlu, and Istanbul. 4 of the victims were killed in their homes, while the mutilated body of a young trans woman activist, Hande Kader, was found by the side of a road in Istanbul. Out of the 86 incidents, it is known or presumed that, in 70, the victims/survivors were sex workers. 38 serious bodily harm, 24 assault, and 19 sexual assault cases were verified and included in the submission. The most common perpetrators were gangs (more than a third of the cases). People posing as clients were also among common assailants (15 cases). In 11 cases, police and prison guards were the offenders. In Bursa, a sex worker trans woman was forcibly taken into custody by the police and badly beaten, threatened, and imposed an administrative fine. She needed medical care after the incident. In Eskişehir, a trans woman who is a prison detainee claimed that she was subjected to insults, discrimination, mistreatment, and sexual abuse in jail.

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