Evren Savcı on Turkey’s LGBT movement, from flourishing to crackdown

April 27, 2021

Turkey Book Talk episode #140 – Evren Savcı, author of “Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics Under Neoliberal Islam” (Duke University Press), on the shifting discourse around LGBT rights in Turkey and the government’s mounting rhetoric against activists.

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Posted by William Armstrong
Filed in AKP, Human Rights in Turkey, Interviews, LGBTI rights, Middle East, Minorities, Podcast, Politics, Turkey, Turkish politics
Tags: Evren Savci, Human rights in Turkey, LGBT rights in Turkey, Turkey Book Talk, Turkish politics

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