PM Files Complaint Over “Queer” Tweet

PM Erdoğan reportedly filed a complaint against LGBT activist Levent Pişkin over his tweet “I am hunky-dory queer. I won’t learn queer-ness from you. I am expecting a statement from you”.

Çiçek Tahaoğlu

PM Erdoğan reportedly filed a complaint against LGBT activist and People’s Democratic Party Beyoğlu District Chair Levent Pişkin over his tweet “I am hunky-dory queer. I won’t learnqueer-ness from you. I am expecting a statement from you”.

The aforementioned tweet originated from PM’s statement “I am a hunky-dory Alevi”.

Upon the tweet, PM Erdoğan reportedly filed a complaint against Pişkin for defamation via the media.

“I will countersue PM for humiliating homosexuality,” Pişkin told bianet.

“Queer-ness is a sexual orientation. This isn’t an insult. By suing me, PM himself has committed an insult crime here. I will countersue this and symbolically ask 1 lira for damages.”

11 years ago

In 2002, PM Recep Tayyip Erdoğan attended “Abbas Güçlü ile Genç Bakış” TV-show where he said the following upon a question:

“Homosexuals must be protected under the umbrella of judicial regulations. We observe that they are treated inappropriately and we don’t find them humane.” (ÇT/BM)

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BIA News Desk

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Université Marc Bloch’da sosyoloji bölümünden mezun oldu. 2009’dan 2011’e kadar AFP’de fixer ve çevirmen olarak çalıştı. Gazeteci Burcu Karakaş ile Açık Radyo’da Cadı Postası programını yaptı. 2015 Müşerref Hekimoğlu Başarı Ödülü'nü aldı. 2011-2018 arasında bianet’te kadın ve LGBTİ haberleri editörü olarak çalıştı.