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[ZoC]

yes... the gypsies and the feable minded...

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[Capt J Sparrow]

yes... the gypsies and the feable minded...

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Yes, where will it end?

[kurupetos]

There's a lot of brain-washing in London.

[bill cobbett]

Well, whilst one or two of the shallow-minded above have swallowed Turkish Propaganda about paedophilia, the story of the Illegal Arrest and Detention of Sarris and others spreads further...

Here is a para by Marina Yannakoudakis in Public Service Europe

..." The Sarris case has shown that there is still an institutionalised culture of homophobia in the north of Cyprus with the media coverage of the arrest being particularly salacious. It may be easy to change the criminal code, but changing attitudes to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community may take longer..."

http://www.publicserviceeurope.com/arti ... -community

[bill cobbett]

... and whilst the usual suspect reactionary homophobes make light of this attack on human rights, the rest of us can read about the further and very bad publicity this case is having on their friends in the Apartheid Cut Off Their Goolies and Dump Them In Jail Regime beyond CY...

ILGA-Europe demands immediate release of adult men detained for consenting sexual activities in North Cyprus

ILGA-Europe today sent a letter to the President and the prime minister of "Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus" to demand the immediate end to arbitrary detention and prosecution of men suspected of having engaged in consensual adult same-sex sexual activity; to demand the immediate release of those who are being detained; and to demand the dropping of charges against those who are being prosecuted.


http://www.ilga-europe.org/home/news/la ... rth_cyprus

(ILGA-Europe is an international non-governmental umbrella organisation bringing together 277 organisations from 40 of the 48 countries in Europe)

[Hermes]

Now an issue about Turkish backwardness. From the Economist....

Gays In Turkey: Not wanted

A POPULAR adage contends that “every Turk is born a soldier.” Not so Turkish gays, who are barred from mandatory service in the large conscript army because they are “sexually deviant” and so unfit to take up arms. They might consider themselves lucky. An alarming number of Turkish soldiers have been killed recently (24 on October 19th alone), as rebels of the separatist Kurdistan Workers’ party (PKK) escalate their war in the predominantly Kurdish south-east.

Yet to be exempted gays must “prove” their orientation. This used to involve photographs of themselves having sex with another man. Unsatisfied army medics have subjected gays to humiliating physical examinations “prodding and poking their anuses supposedly to assess whether they were penetrated or not,” says Firat Soyle, a lawyer for Lambda, an Istanbul-based gay group. Although this practice has subsided, gays must answer intrusive questions about their childhood, such as “did you play with dolls?” Mr Soyle adds that in remote recruiting centres in Anatolia the occasional gay is still pressed to produce “evidence.”

Islam deems homosexuality a sinful yet remediable illness. “Read the Koran, fast and marry,” advises one Islamic website. Violence against gays and transvestites is common. Yet the army’s conservative influence is fading. Turkey now celebrates gay pride day—the only Muslim country to do so. Emboldened campaigners are fighting to get gay rights enshrined in the new constitution planned by the ruling Justice and Development (AK) party. Fatma Sahin, AK minister for family and social affairs, has met gay-rights activists even though her party refuses to accept overtly homosexual members...

http://www.economist.com/node/21533418

[Capt J Sparrow]

There's a lot of brain-washing in London.

In your case, it would help if you actually had a brain that could be washed.

[GreekIslandGirl]

They ("trnc") are an illegal set-up. Who cares what pseudo-laws they have/have not? They are non-existent! Stupid is the person who visits this occupied region! Gay or not, they have no business looking for entertainment under an occupying-racist-fascist regime.

[Get Real!]

... and whilst the usual suspect reactionary homophobes make light of this attack on human rights, the rest of us can read about the further and very bad publicity this case is having on their friends in the Apartheid Cut Off Their Goolies and Dump Them In Jail Regime beyond CY...

Well DUH!

I remind that European law is currently suspended in the Cypriot occupied territory for obvious reasons, and it just so happens that the illegal occupiers of this territory are in fact Muslims who go by the Quran which condemns homosexuality!

So no amount of brainless pro-gay rhetoric is going to justify this fool’s folly!

Your problem is that you’re so preoccupied with the “bad publicity” you think you can inflict on the occupier, as if they have any shame about serious matters let alone this one where they actually have a point, and in your haste forget all about European Child protection laws, and the politician’s deplorable conduct!

If we keep turning a blind eye to this politician’s despicable actions (and it’s not his first time) he will simply return right back to his post unscathed from all this, so that he may continue disturbing minors and bringing embarrassments to our country and for what?

So that we may achieve 5c worth of “bad publicity” against the “TRNC”?

Talk about being penny wise and pound foolish!

[Hermes]

According to the Washington Post:

An EU legislator urged the leader of Cyprus’ breakaway Turkish north on Thursday to repeal an anti-gay law that led to the arrest of a former Greek Cypriot Cabinet minister. Lawmaker Marina Yannakoudakis raised the issue during a meeting with Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu, and a top government official said Eroglu agreed that the law should be scrapped...

It seems the EU are insisting that the "trnc" adopt EU law. And Eroglu agrees. An interesting precedent. No doubt the EU will be equally implacable in laying down EU law in the "trnc" when it comes to negotiating any future settlement. After all, the human rights of Greek Cypriots as EU citizens are just as valid as the rights of homosexuals.