{"id":440,"date":"2024-01-29T11:05:37","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T10:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/crimscapes\/?p=440"},"modified":"2024-01-29T11:05:37","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T10:05:37","slug":"born-illegal-criminalising-lgbtq-refugees-in-turkiye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/crimscapes\/2024\/01\/29\/born-illegal-criminalising-lgbtq-refugees-in-turkiye\/","title":{"rendered":"“Born illegal”: criminalising LGBTQ+ refugees in T\u00fcrkiye"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hybrid Lecture, Feb 5th, 10-11:30 CET\/ 11-12:30 EET, University of Helsinki and Online (Zoom)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

T\u00fcrkiye\u00a0hosts the largest number of refugees worldwide, nearly four\u00a0million, including 3.6 million Syrian refugees. Since 2018, the country has experienced one of the worst economic crises in its history, with hyperinflation, unemployment, and chronic hopelessness widespread.\u00a0Both the country’s authoritarian leader, Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan, and its major opposition parties have sought\u00a0to blame the country’s economic woes on refugees, migrants, and other minorities, who face widespread daily discrimination from both the authorities and local communities.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This increasingly hostile and often outright violent atmosphere is most acutely felt by LGBTQ+ refugees in T\u00fcrkiye, who suffer from rising xenophobic and racist sentiment as well as deeply ingrained and publicly endorsed prejudice against LGBTQ+ people. Both of these trends are actively weaponised by the Turkish authorities to harass and target the LGBTQ+ refugee community.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This talk will discuss the historical and political context that has led to the rise of anti-refugee and anti-LGBTQ+ politics in T\u00fcrkiye;\u00a0the legal environment in which this takes place and\u00a0explore both the issues LGBTQ+ refugees face as well as the networks of solidarity and mutual aid that they are organising.\u00a0The talk will also feature a Q&A with the speakers. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We kindly request you to register your intention to attend online or on-site at the University of Helsinki: https:\/\/forms.gle\/msS7TR59zp8KuEvw7<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aws Jubair <\/em><\/strong>is a refugee advocate, humanitarian worker and LGBTQ+ activist from Baghdad, Iraq, living and working in T\u00fcrkiye since 2011. For the past 8 years Aws has been working to serve vulnerable communities. He is co-founder and co-director of four humanitarian projects: The <\/em>Aman Project<\/a><\/em> which focuses on supporting LGBTQ refugees and advocating for LGBTQ rights in the MENA region; the De-otherize Dialogue Project; United Hands for Refugees, and the Common Sense Initiative. <\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sar\u0131<\/em><\/strong> is an activist who has worked on human rights in the MENA region for nearly ten years, focusing on Iran and the Persian Gulf. He is advising and assisting on The Aman Project’s advocacy work.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hybrid Lecture, Feb 5th, 10-11:30 CET\/ 11-12:30 EET, University of Helsinki and Online (Zoom) T\u00fcrkiye\u00a0hosts the largest number of refugees worldwide, nearly four\u00a0million, including 3.6 million Syrian refugees. Since 2018, the country has experienced one of the worst economic crises in its history, with hyperinflation, unemployment, and chronic hopelessness widespread.\u00a0Both the country’s authoritarian leader, Recep … Continue reading “Born illegal”: criminalising LGBTQ+ refugees in T\u00fcrkiye<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,53],"tags":[50,54,55],"class_list":["post-440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activity","category-lgbtiq","tag-criminalization","tag-lgbtiq","tag-turkiye"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/crimscapes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/crimscapes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/crimscapes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/crimscapes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/crimscapes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/crimscapes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":441,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/crimscapes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions\/441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/crimscapes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/crimscapes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/crimscapes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}