The body of the transgender activist found on the streets of Istanbul
LAST HOUR GAYLES.TV. - Hande Kader she had only 22 years and her great sin has been to face, for herself, for her rights and those of the LGTBI collective in a country as recalcitrant as Türkiye. She was always seen in the front row of protests and demonstrations, her political activism led to her being arrested on one occasion.
She made a living as she could and in her situation that meant taking to the streets as a sex worker. She was last seen last week getting into a customer's car for service from which she would not return. When he did not appear, his companions gave the alarm and his environment reacted immediately on social networks by publishing search messages but everything was unsuccessful. The body of the girl appeared in the streets of Istanbul horribly mutilated and burned. Now the networks are mobilizing again but this time they are looking to spread the tragedy and the recognition that the Hande fight deserves with the hashtag #HandeKadereSesVer.
The political turn that has taken place in Turkey with post-coup purges carried out by Erdogan, the situation of the LGTBI collective has not improved in a country that boasts of belonging to European democracies but where 80% of its inhabitants consider homosexuality morally unacceptable.
The body was found a few kilometers from where a few days ago a Syrian gay refugee was cruelly murdered. The situation is terrible and while authorities of the old continent look the other way, gays, lesbians and transsexuals suffocate in closets for fear of being killed, mutilated, burned.
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