Turkish Crackdown On LGBTQ+ Organizations Threatens Freedom of Expression and Association

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Executive Summary

EFF strongly condemns Turkey’s state-led discriminatory, oppressive attacks on feminist and LGBTQ+ organisations, media platforms, student groups, and rights defenders and activists within the country. Since mid-September, access to the websites and social media accounts of a dozen organizations have been blocked by court order , while over 60 members and activists have been detained, their offices and homes raided , mobile phones, laptops and other digital devices seized, and judicial proceedings launched against them.

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