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Marina Lacroix

Turkish cross-dressers | Gender-benders | The Economist - 0 views

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shared by Marina Lacroix on 17 Nov 08 - Cached
  • Transvestites test the limits of Turkey’s tolerance
  • Human-rights groups say hundreds of transvestites are detained, beaten, tortured or sexually abused every year. Many are driven into prostitution. “They are seen as the lowest of the low and face more police brutality than any other group,” says Eren Keskin, a human-rights lawyer. And when anyone has dared to file a complaint, she adds, “not a single policeman has been convicted.”
  • Turkey is said to have more transvestites per head than anywhere bar Brazil.
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  • Same-sex relations are not banned in Turkey. But like America, it bans gays and cross-dressing men from the army. Yet to win exemption from mandatory military service, they must prove their sexual orientation. A Human Rights Watch report notes that this can involve “abusive and intrusive anal examinations”, and adds that many are forced into psychiatric treatment because they are deemed to be mentally ill.
Marina Lacroix

Overlooked Victims: Immigrant Men Are Forced to Marry, Too - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - In... - 0 views

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shared by Marina Lacroix on 08 Nov 08 - Cached
  • Stories of Turkish girls forced into arranged marriages in Germany are well known. But hardly anyone talks about the men who are forced into marriage -- sometimes harassed, blackmailed or beaten.
  • it is largely unknown that many young Muslim men are also forced to marry against their will and subjected to violence at the hands of family members. Hardly any organized assistance programs exist for these men, and many are too ashamed to talk about their fates.
  • Some victims are Turks born and raised in Germany who have fallen in with the wrong crowd, becoming involved in drugs, burglaries and gangs. The families, anxious to return their sons to the straight and narrow, find them unblemished women from Anatolia. But no one ever asks the bride's or the groom's opinion.
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  • Sometimes it's the groom who is imported, as an honorable husband for a daughter. The imported groom is virtually powerless to oppose the union, especially with his family at home in Turkey pinning its entire hopes on his future.
  • It is not always easy to draw a clear line between an arranged marriage and a forced marriage.
  • Under the pretext of going on a vacation, Cem's parents lured their son to the Turkish Black Sea coast, where they took away his passport and pressured him until he signed the marriage contract.
  • Cem, a man in his mid-20s, had a similar experience, but because of his German girlfriend he refused to marry his cousin.
  • "I went to bed at 9:30 every night so I wouldn't have to sleep with my cousin. Or I went out," he says, "and fooled around with other girls." Women lack these freedoms. They are forced to sit at home with their in-laws, while the men can embark on minor escapades. And then there is another problem, says Berlin psychologist Erdogan: "Some men take out their frustration on their wives and become violent." The potential for such frustration is especially high among imported grooms, he says.
Marina Lacroix

Istanbul en de dubbele moraal tegenover homo's - Buitenland - de Volkskrant - 0 views

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shared by Marina Lacroix on 22 Oct 08 - Cached
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  • Onder druk van zijn familie heeft Hamid moeten besluiten toch maar te trouwen.
  • ‘Het erge is dat zo twee mensen ongelukkig worden, niet alleen zo’n jongen, maar ook het meisje met wie hij trouwt.’
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  • Net zoals de Amsterdamse hoofdinspecteur deed met Vietnamdemonstranten in de jaren zestig, laadde de politie de travestieten in vrachtwagens en dumpte die buiten de stad.
  • Ik zat zelf een keer in een homobar bij een inval van de politie. Toen ze zagen dat niemand met lang haar of make-up rondliep, gingen ze weg omdat er geen homo’s zouden zijn’, lacht Özkan.
  • Ter illustratie vertelt hij een waargebeurd verhaal uit het leger. ‘Twee mannen werden met elkaar betrapt in een washok. De passieve werd uit het leger gegooid, maar de actieve, de echte vent dus, kreeg alleen celstraf.’
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