Turkish lesbian life has become very visible since early 's especially in Istanbul and several lesbian venues were opened in recent years. Before that lesbians used to be a very small minority in gay life of Istanbul. They had to go to some of the male gay bars because there were indeed very few lesbian women that could go out comfortably.
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By Jake Kanter. Netflix has canceled filming on its latest Turkish original, If Only , amid pressure from local authorities to remove a gay character from the series. But Netflix has scrapped the plans after producers were refused a filming license because of the existence of a gay character.
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In the Ottoman Empire —the predecessor of the modern-day Republic of Turkey— adopted a new penal code, which no longer contained any explicit articles criminalizing homosexuality. The Ottoman Penal Code of was heavily influenced by the Napoleonic Code , as part of wider reforms during the Tanzimat period. Transgender people have been allowed to change their legal gender since Although discrimination protections regarding sexual orientation and gender identity or expression have been debated legally, they have not yet been legislated. Some openly gay people were able to be successful in the s. Murathan Mungan has been openly gay throughout his professional life as a successful poet and writer. However, many gay and bisexual men who lived during this period have since said in interviews that they felt pressured, by social attitudes and government policy, to remain in the closet about their sexual identity. In the s, the Radical Democratic Green Party expressed support for gay rights, including the work of a group of transgender people to protest police brutality.
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