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TGEU launches new report on violence against trans people in CEECA

19. April 2021TGEU launches new report on violence against trans people in CEECA

Diren Coşkun: Hunger strike in prison

A BW portrait photo of trans woman Diren looking defiantly at the camera. The text has the #DireneSesVer

8. February 2018Diren Coşkun: Hunger strike in prison

Transgender Europe strongly condemns the murder of trans woman and activist Hande Kader

25. August 2016Transgender Europe strongly condemns the murder of trans woman and activist Hande Kader

Istanbul Trans Pride: TGEU calls on Turkey to protect basic human rights

29. June 2016Istanbul Trans Pride: TGEU calls on Turkey to protect basic human rights

7th Trans Pride March Istanbul LGBTI Solidarity Association Press Statement

28. June 20167th Trans Pride March Istanbul LGBTI Solidarity Association Press Statement

Urgent need to provide protection from violence and better legal gender recognition in EU Accession countries

The European Commission published on 10th November its annual progress reports [1] addressing the track record of EU accession countries, Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro, Kosovo [2], Serbia and ...

13. November 2015Urgent need to provide protection from violence and better legal gender recognition in EU Accession countries

Istanbul LGBTI Pride attacked by Police

28. June 2015Istanbul LGBTI Pride attacked by Police

TGEU contributes to the OSCE Hate Crime Report 2014

TGEU contributes to the OSCE Hate Crime Report 2014

ECtHR to announce verdict on Turkish gender reassignment law

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) will announce its final verdict in the case of a trans man in Turkey who could not get the court permission needed for ...

25. February 2015ECtHR to announce verdict on Turkish gender reassignment law

Hande Öncü, Turkish transgender asylum seeker living in Vienna murdered

Having left Turkey for Vienna due to transphobic pressure, trans woman Hande Öncü was killed in a hate crime. Öncü’s body will be brought back to Turkey thanks to Trans ...

30. January 2015Hande Öncü, Turkish transgender asylum seeker living in Vienna murdered

TGEU Legal Practitioners Seminar

12. May 2014TGEU Legal Practitioners Seminar

CoE Parliamentarians Demand Turkey Stop Transphobic Violence

Council of Europe Parliamentarians Demand Concrete Action Against Transphobic Violence in Turkey 27 Members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe have condemned the on-going violence and ...

4. October 2013CoE Parliamentarians Demand Turkey Stop Transphobic Violence