UN Experts Call for Turkey to Put an End to Escalating LGBTQIA+ Attacks

UN experts slam Turkey’s LGBTQ crackdown

UN experts condemn Turkey’s crackdown on LGBTQ organisations and call for an end to detentions and harassment. Read more at straitstimes.com.

UN experts slam Turkey’s ‘crackdown’ on LGBTQ organisations

The community has faced growing pressure from authorities, with president Recep Tayyip Erdogan describing it as a 'deviant movement' of 'perverts'.

UN experts call for Turkey to put an end to escalating LGBTQIA+ attacks

Dean Arcuri United Nations experts are calling for an immediate end to Turkey’s crackdown on the LGBTQIA+ community, which includes raiding queer […]

Türkiye: UN experts alarmed by crackdown on LGBTI human rights defenders and civil society organisations (Press release)

GENEVA (13 October 2026)– UN experts* today denounced a severe crackdown on human rights defenders and LGBTI organisations in Türkiye, involving criminal, administrative and financial measures that unduly restrict the rights to freedom of expression and association and obstruct legitimate human rights work. “Türkiye must end the harassment of LGBTI human rights defenders and organisations