Crescent Moon & Mosque in Istanbul l Alyn Wallace

Communist fighters from the THKP-C/MLSPB-DC released photos celebrating the 55th anniversary of the PFLP in Palestine, December 8, 2022.

An Iranian LGBTIQ activist is facing deportation to his home country. The Human Rights Association (IHD) announced on Friday that Elyas Torabiba-Eskandari was detained last Sunday at a Pride parade in Istanbul and taken into deportation custody. After a stay of several hours at the police station in the Beyoğlu district, Torabiba-Eskandari was initially taken to the deportation centre of the Turkish migration authority in Tuzla. In the meantime, he is being held in an identical facility in the border province of Urfa. Elyas Torabiba-Eskandari fled Iran ten years ago together with his mother. According to the IHD, both were victims of state violence, arbitrary detention and torture in their home country. Since their flight in 2013, they have been living in Turkey - however, they do not enjoy full refugee protection there in the sense of the Geneva Convention, but only have so-called conditional refugee status. Nevertheless, a deportation would violate the prohibition of refoulement, i.e. that refugees may not be deported to countries where their lives are in danger. However, the IHD regularly documents deportations of refugees from Turkey to Iran, but also to Syria and Iraq, where their lives are in danger.

LGBTQ+ activists face lethal punishments in Iran. This shouldn't be allowed.

Princess Islands - Istanbul

Tebrikler Türkiye 💗🤍

May Allah Protect all Muslims of Türkiye and grant them victory over the enemies of Islam

THIS IS THE FIRST CAMPAIGN TO MOVE A SHOW TO A DIGITAL PLATFORM AND WHY YOU SHOULD CARE

This is one of the very few shows on Turkyie without gratuitous violence against women and it was punished by it.

One of few female roles that the female lead is layered.

The network disrespected the artistic integrity of the show, not giving the writers the news they were being cancelled.

The female public was completely belittled and mocked during the whole process. The show had a huge following internationally.

To join is very easy: SIGN A PETITION HERE.

Go on twitter and use the hastag so it can trend today. We will do a very heavy work 'till saturday and we need more help.

TAGS: #RuhunDuymaz #SaveRuhunDuymaz

Reblog and ask your friends to do it even if you don't want the show.

IT WON'T TAKE 10 MINUTES OF YOUR DAY. PLEASE, LET'S SUPPORT GOOD ROLES FOR WOMEN.

(And yes, we learned from sources a move to digital is possible in this scenario. Let's make a first for Turkyie so writers there can have liberty to write more diverse roles)

Istanbul, 2023.

Blue Mosque at night. Istanbul, Turkey.

May, 2023

DTIYS for @poland.balls.daily in instagram 🎱

The Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front (DHKP-C)

If bombs are able to be dropped from the sky on NW Syria, surely humanitarian aid dropoffs can.

Shout out to all women in Turkiye, be it Persian or Kurd or Turk, for standing up for women in Iran in their fight for freedom to overthrow a dictatorship. You have been our voice and haven't stopped being our voice from the beginning. Thank you. .

Well shit. There goes turkey as a safe place for marginalized groups.  I remember when I was there in around 2012 and there was an LGBT coming out group handing out flyers in Taksim Square. I imagine all of that freedom for LGBTQ people is gone now. 

A somewhat inaccurate Turkish map of South America from 1927.

IZMIR TURKYIE