Saturday, July 19, 2008

Was Ahmet Yildiz the victim of Turkey's first gay honour killing? - Europe, World - The Independent

"Was Ahmet Yildiz the victim of Turkey's first gay honour killing?

By Nicholas Birch in Istanbul
Saturday, 19 July 2008
Ahmet Yildiz was shot as he left a cafe near the Bosphorus strait in Istanbul

In a corner of Istanbul today, the man who might be described as Turkey's gay poster boy will be buried – a victim, his friends believe, of the country's deepening friction between an increasingly liberal society and its entrenched conservative traditions."

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