TGEU Countries: Turkey For the record For the record: violence by gangs 1. The victim was a trans sex worker who worked on 5. Police stopped the victim while she was working on the 1. The victim was a trans sex worker who worked on the 5. A group attacked trans sex workers with a gun in Har- the street. She was targeted by two police officers on street. They insulted, shouted at and slapped her. When street. While she was working, a car approached her and biye, a district where sex workers work. The attackers the street and while she was in her car. The officers used she tried to resist, they stopped cars passing by and said, four young men asked her for money. She refused, as a said “Allahu Akbar”, “God is Great”, and shot one of physical and psychological violence against her. “Take her and do whatever to her”. The victim asked to result of which they attacked her with knives and sticks. the victims in the head. She was taken to the hospital, be taken to the police station because she was afraid of She was taken to the hospital and had to undergo surgery. but health staff did not care for her properly. She com- 2. The victim was a trans man. He was arrested at a being attacked by other people. They did take her to the demonstration by several police officers. He was physi- police station, where she was beaten and fined. cally attacked by police officers and targeted with transphobic language. plained about the incident to the police, but they did not 2. A trans-woman sex worker was physically attacked take the case seriously and insulted her. by five people on the street where she was doing sex 6. A trans-woman sex worker wanted to work on Mirac work. She was severely beaten and taken to the hospital. Kandili, an Islamic holy night. Some people asked her, 6. The victim was working on a street in Beylikduzu and got into a customer’s car. Another car followed them, 3. A trans-woman sex worker was detained by the police “How dare you do this job on a holy night?” As a result, she 3. The victim was a trans-woman sex worker. She was but the victim was not aware of the situation. The per- while working on the street. She was taken to the police went to another street, where she was beaten by three kidnapped while working on the street by the same petrators took her to a village. She was insulted, phys- station and forced to undergo HIV testing. In the process, people, receiving serious head injuries. The police came, perpetrators who had attacked her in the past. She was ically assaulted and raped. The perpetrators stole her she was subjected to ill-treatment and transphobic lan- and the victim got into their car, but they did not want to raped and physically attacked. money and clothing. She asked a shepherd for help. A guage. She was not permitted to use the female wash- help her because she was trans. The police made her get room at the police station. out of the car, and she fell down. They did not make a re- 4. Twenty-five trans sex workers were attacked with evidence to the prosecutor at Gaziosmanpasa Courthouse. She was examined by a forensics team. record was drawn up at the police station, and she gave cord of the incident. When she was taken to the hospital, knives by men who asked for money. The victims’ hous- 4. A trans woman who attended Istanbul’s LGBTI Pride health personnel did not want to treat her, and she was es and cars were also damaged. March was targeted and attacked by the police with plas- humiliated by the health staff. tic bullets, and she received leg injuries. 7. A group of trans sex workers was attacked by eight to ten unknown people. One victim was stabbed in the arm. She got into a taxi, but the driver tried to make her get out of the car. + 100 + + 101 +