Source: Not yet published on the Grand National Assembly of Turkey website- original document below as .pdf
TO THE GRAND NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF TURKEY
I request that the questions below be answered by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
Sincerely,
Professor Dr. Binnaz Toprak
The policies of denial, violence, and annihilation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transsexual citizens continue. Though NGOs and the ministry agreed to include the the terms sexual orientation and gender identity in the Draft Law on the Protection of Family and the Prevention of Violence against Women, they were later removed by the Council of Ministers. The Justice and Development Party has rejected the inclusion of the protection of sexual orientation and gender identity in the new constitution drafting process. The drafts of the Ban on Discrimination and Article on Equality also exclude the terms.
LGBT people, the victims of horrible hate crimes, demand an end to the policies and discourses of denial, violence, and othering and the creation of an action plan to change the way of thinking and social structure that is at the root of these policies.
In this context,
1. Does the Justice and Development Party government have a political, legal, and social action plan to resolve the victimization LGBT people face?